Africa (Vinyl LP) KidsPressed on orange and black wax. ? On the album Africa from 1987 Sanders plays with an all star line up consisting of Idris Muhammad, John Hicks and Curtis Lundy. Muhammad brings his trademark tight sense of timekeeping, but with a looseness that we love and Lundys warm soulful bass does more than enough to give the set a sound bottom all this while Hicks free lyrical piano works nicely with Sanders spiritual horn. The brilliant Africa sessions
Psychedelia
Annette Snell's glorious Love Connection is one of two fine cuts that we feature from Nashville's Dial label
Check the duo's fascinating funky remake of Rod Stewart's "Maggie May
included is an inner sleeve just like the original LP
Many of the gems on this album have been sampled hundreds of times by artists that have sold millions of records because they knew a good hook when they heard one - while a few are yet to be discovered by a wider audience
During the heyday of the Northern Soul scene the All-Nighter was the preferred format for the travelling soul fan
God Is An Astronaut hails from Wicklow
for this is not a project where soul-jazz or early boogaloo influences turned jazzmen into groovemeisters - it's a swinging groove
featuring the drifting catatonic majesty of 'Seeland' and the tidal ambient lull of 'Leb' Wohl' is very recognizably led by Rother's sense of affecting minimalism
including their pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps anthem "Gotta Get Over the Hump" and "Bootleggin"
and his musical legacy is more than relevant
in a rhythmic style influenced once more by island systems
