Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Sahara Swing, CD

Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics' percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tingled funk music originating from Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets Of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlinja, founders of the Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich-based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted is James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not "world music"- but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on "the one."

Track Listing:

1. When The Sun Breaks Through (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
2. Nyx (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
3. Followed Path (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
4. Transition (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
5. Sahara Swing (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
6. Psycles (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
7. Transition (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
8. Koloko Pt. 1 (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
9. Debere (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
10. Transition (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
11. Jabore Pt. 3 (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
12. Mystical Brotherhood (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
13. Timely Interuption (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
14. Transition (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
15. Mellow (Version) (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
16. Rush Hour (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
17. Transition (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
18. Toure Samar (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
19. Passau Run (Produced By: Whitefield; Curulija; Myland)
20. Stones Throw Fan Club 45:
21. Popcorn With A Feeling
22. JB RIP