Half A Book (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & Disco

Half A Book (Vinyl LP) Soul Funk & Disco

Recorded in 1976 in the wake of the "Proceso de Reorganizaci‚àö‚â•n Nacional"

and employed musicians ¬

Gothenburg

"Now I Ride Alone" is moody and intense "like the hardboiled typewriting of novelists Jim Thompson

warm-honey tone and a gritty

mixing in the odd viola

the album draws influence from the old VHS tapes handed down to Space Dimension Controller from his older brother and cousins

post-lockdown dancefloor comp

Foothill College-era Chocolate Watchband member Danny Phay (who'd also been in the Tingle Guild)

Ana Delliai's psych grooves

"Too Many Rappers" ropes in hip-hop institution Nas to sneer paternalistically at the calibre of wordplay nowadays

A mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene and an active recent addition to the New York scene