The Jazz Messengers - The Jazz MessengersUK first pressing, 1957, mono VG+ VG

killer horn lines

unassuming man of 59 years old named Victor Tavares - better know as Bitori - walks into a studio for the very first time to record a masterpiece which many Cabo Verdean consider to be the best FunanÌÁ album ever made

Dramatic influences like Isaac Hayes (check out the piano on “Be Your Own Shelter”) and Jerry Ragovoy are chopped and folded into Northern Soul uptempo numbers to create stompers like “Get a Hold of Yourself” or “Chosen Few”

hard-quantised MS10 bassline will appear to root these compositions in the now

tying them together in a true lover’s knot

but so is a greater emphasis on melody

During the course of the album’s creation

Iron Force - Sweet Poison Sir Stanley - I Believe

keyboard lines mesh and spiral

under Interscope Records and Dr

- 180g heavyweight cloudy red vinyl*

Music as compost—leaves