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 Misa Negra vs. Pacific Express Afrika Underground Excursion CounterPoint - 12" 2002 |
This is a sampler with exclusive tracks from artists featured on the "Afrika Underground" compilation. The concept behind the release is to bring us obscure and hard-to-find essentials from the 70s African jazz-funk scene. These two tracks by Pacific Express could easily match the quality of long-time jazz-fusion veterans like Donald Byrd or Roy Ayers. The steamy funk with tasty vibes and very infectious syncopated rhythms is so phat and greasy you'd swear this peace of wax is suffering from a serious weight problem! Kaidi Tatham & Daz-I-Kue, pioneers of the West-London sound in their Misa Negra disguise, bring a tribute to Pacific Express in the form of two remakes. The afrobeat rhythms have been carefully transformed -using a freaky minimalistic approach of vox, keyboards and beats- to the innovative broken-beat sound of the present. The jazz-funk music from the 70s certainly has a strong influence on the whole nu-jazz movement of today and it's nice to see both scenes come together through tracks like these. SayVegin |
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