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Electric Cowbell Records recently proudly announced the debut 7" release from Karthala 72 Dans Le Coeur Du Feu / Delores. Karthala 72 is the sound of a 1970′s psychedelic freakout only heavier than you ever heard it before! Tribal 
rhythms and hypnotic guitar from a time when the raw sound was king. Taking
influence from the traditional music of the Comoros, to Anatolian bazaar jazz to
the more familiar beat of percussion led afro funk. Karthala 72: this is just
the beginning...
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Karthala 72 – MyspaceIn 2011 multi-instrumentalist, artist, producer, DJ and in demand remixer, Lack Of Afro collaborated on an album project with Eddie Roberts of The New Mastersounds, produced and played on the album Colours by Frootful and still found time to create what is, without doubt, his strongest album yet: This Time. A wide ranging and eclectic, progressive musical outlook is the Lack Of Afro approach and on this collection the music  pulls together several strands into a fantastic,
homogenous journey.
This Time is the Lack Of Afro album we've been waiting
for. Considered, soulful, contemporary yet retro, accomplished certainly and
setting standards in modern music others will struggle to follow.
CD/vinyl album
on
Freestyle Records.Sundazed Music has assembled Masterology: The Pioneers of New British Funk, which collects a career-spanning selection of highlights from The New Mastersounds' catalogue, along with a scintillating smattering of rarities. Distilling the band’s widescreen sonic vision into a massively impressive package,  it’s
a monumental testament to the New Mastersounds’ seminal body of work. The CD
features 19 tracks drawn from the quartet’s history, while the double-LP
gatefold edition—pressed on high-definition vinyl—contains 20 tracks. In any
format, it’s a killer celebration of the New Mastersounds’ international funk
uprising! A couple of years ago when The New Mastersounds were touring & recording in Spain, guitarist/bandleader, Eddie Roberts joined forces with The Sweet Vandals' rhythm section, adding Chip Wickham's (Nightmares On Wax, Rae & Christian, The Pharcyde) world-class flute and Taz Modi's funktastic organ from Leeds/UK, and he sensed that this could be the beginning of something special. Eddie Roberts & The Fire Eaters - as the combo was called - started recording an album together in 2010 with Eddie producing and Burn! is proof that he was right! This highly acclaimed album really does deliver presenting future classic versions of acid jazz & soul tunes like I Believe In  Miracles,
Lope Song & Lonely For You Baby plus a clutch of original tunes such as
Gutterball, Booga Lou (a tribute to Lou Donaldson) & The Skunk. Burn! takes you
way back to the times when jazz had soul and there was freedom in the
rhythm. CD/vinyl album on
Légère Recordings
/ CD on
P-Vine in Japan.
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August 2011 saw the release of
The New Mastersounds seventh studio and first ever US recorded album
Breaks From The Border. Breaks marks a new era in the band’s sonic landscape
by topping their unique syncopated grooves with group vocals. After a major US
festival tour, instead of flying home to England, the band diverted to El Paso,
Texas, and headed to the outskirts of the border town of Tornillo and the Sonic
Ranch studio. Drawing influences from Jimmies McGriff, Smith and Hendrix, as
well as their mentors, The Meters, the band have produced an album packed with
vintage soul-jazz,
Légère Recordings 15 track compilation album
An Introduction To Eddie Roberts showcases music from Eddie's two solo
albums Roughneck & Trenta and includes five previously unreleased tracks. Here you'll find Eddie’s classic signature tune Roughneck, his tribute to the
sadly neglected Gabor Szabo with Szabo, the Acid Jazz touches on 24000 Baci &
Strada
Big World Publishing's
subsidiary
Music Like Dirt
features some of the finest classic reggae from the 60's, 70's & 80's by
reggae legends The Ethiopians, Rico, Byron Lee, Augustus Pablo, The Pioneers, Ansell
Collins, The Vulcans, Frankie Paul and many more.
Big World Publishing's Patrick Meads said "Leonard Dillon was one of the founding fathers of reggae music and a truly great songwriter & artist and the music of his group, The Ethiopians will live on. I have been Leonard's friend & publisher for 25 years. He was a strong, warm and very humorous man who was always understated and modest as to his musical achievements. I will miss him." Read Leonard Dillon's obituary by David Katz in the Guardian.
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Steady hit with
Leonard's self-penned, Train To
Skaville. During the 60's & 70's the self-penned hits continued for The
Ethiopians with classics such as The Whip, Everything Crash & Hong Kong Flu.