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Enoch Light Orchestra Presents “Spaced Out” “Exploratory Trips Through the Music of Bach, Bacharach, The Beatles Integrating the Moog, The Guitar Scene, Electric Harpsichord, French Horns, Etc.” EMI / Columbia UK
The Ted Heath Orchestra Plays Beatles, Bach & Bacharach Phase 4 Stereo Decca Records Why the same three “B”s?!
Ron Goodman and His Orchestra ….Play Burt Bacharach EMI/Columbia UK
Lennon & McCartney GO LATIN with Tony Osborne
Another one taken off my kitchen wall. Bill Doggett “Hot Doggett” King Records
We’re off to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – we’ll be back next week (maybe)!
“Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat” (check it out) by Charanjit Singh (India, 1982) newly discovered and rereleased by our friend Edo at Bombay-Connections Records who writes:
*Until recently it wasn’t much more than some rumours on the web: a 1982 released LP called TEN RAGAS TO A DISCO BEAT containing Kraftwerk-like acid house music, years before the genre was invented.
So it turns out, the record was no rumour. Only a few hundred copies of the LP were ever pressed, and only a handful seem to have survived. Moreover, the LP outdoes all expectations. Performed on the synths that would later define Acid House, the Roland TB-303 and TR-808, the album sounds light years ahead of its time with its repetitive beats and hypnotic electronic melodies. Its maker, Bollywood session musician Charanjit Singh, set out to translate ancient Indian classical Ragas to the modern synthesizer and in doing so seems to have invented House music along the way. The 10 tracks make a consistent listen from A to Z. Its restrained minimalism and lack of cheesiness makes it incredibly contemporary, sounding animated, fluid and unabashedly alive.”
“Acid” Ray Barretto Fania Records (1968) A classic. A well-know dance floor firestarter, but also a great cover worthy of another look. Features “Acid”, “Teacher of Love”, “Mercy, Mercy, Baby”, “Soul Drummers”, “A Deeper Shade of Soul” – the whole LP is an afro-latin, soul, funk and boogaloo fusion that makes you wanna move your feet. “Have you heard them cooking / The Soul Drummers / well they play so cool / Soul Drummers / so hard to resist / Soul Drummers / with the African twist.” A jewel in the amazing Fania catalog. Drop “Acid” at your next party and see what happens.
