FUNK-O-LOGY

Purple Image - S/T (Map City MAP 3015, 1970)



Titres

A1 Living In The Ghetto 6:32
A2 Why 4:37
A3 Lady 3:37
A4 We Got To Pull Together 3:35

B1 What You Do To Me 3:32
B2 Marching To A Different Drummer 15:24

Crédits

Kenneth Roberts : chant
Diane Dunlap : chant
Del Moran : basse
Frank Smith : guitare
Richard Payne : batterie
William Adams : congas, chant
Warren Adams : orgue, piano, chant


Un groupe black US qui a sorti un album en 70 sur Map City. Ils seraient de Cleveland. Entre soul, funk et rock psych. Le seul autre groupe que je connaisse sur le label est le groupe heavy psych YESTERDAY'S CHILDREN. Quelqu'un a d'autres infos ?

célèbre pièce mais je n'en sais guère plus sur ce groupe, ça devrait parler à certains

othall a écrit :Quelqu'un a d'autres infos?

Sur le net : Source : - http://www.tulumba.com/storeItem.asp?ic=MUINT012501

Overview
Though African-American and raised in the predominantly Black 105th Superior area of Cleveland, Purple Image played rock -- psychedelic, mind-bending, pass-the-bong, strobe-light, posters-on-the-wall head music. This obscure album recorded on Map Records has risen to the status of cult because of its scarcity and the musical orientation of Warren Adams (vocals, piano, organ), Kenneth Roberts (vocals, rhythm), William Adams (vocals, conga), Frank Smith (lead guitar), Del Moran (bass), Richard Payne (drums), and lone female Diane Dunlap (vocals), Edward Snodgrass, a non-member, augmented P.I. on sax. Purple Image wrote everything except the LP's masterpiece, the 15-minute, 24-second rendition of Bob Craig's "Marching to a Different Drummer." As with all six selections, Purple Image sounds better when the volume is cranked. "Drummer" is an energetic, powerful blend of acid rock and fusion ; Snodgrass blows a frantic Coltrane-ish sax, and Dunlap wails like she slammed her hand in a door. "We Got to Pull Together" is an airy, charming, socially significant ballad that urges us to become color-blind, forget the past, and get along. Snodgrass plays a tender horn while a male does a convincing lead wallpapered by some arresting, swooping harmonies. On "Living In the Ghetto," they sing about the woes of poverty ; if you like heavy metal, this and "Why" will tickle your fancy. "Lady" features Dunlap and a male on an upbeat rock-blues number. The back cover pictures P.I. posing under the now-defunct Liberty Theater marquee in mod-type clothing. The front cover features a slim, pretty, Afro-wearing Black woman with three arms holding three globes surrounded by clouds.

"The back cover pictures P.I. posing under the now-defunct Liberty Theater"

cet album est excellent, il regroupe toutes les composantes que j'aime dans la musique, quelle période la fin des 60 le début des 70! Chez toi, ça devrait bien le faire Funkiness!

j'ai adoré le soulful "We got to pull together", vraiment magnifique

En voilà encore un autre qui atteint les sommets...

Mon morceau préféré est le très délicat "We Got To Pull Together" : de l'harmony soul fleurie dans des marécages heavy psyché funk

Rééditions

CD : Purple Image - S/T (Radioactive RRCD041, 2004) - [réédition non officielle]


LP : Purple Image - S/T (Spiral Groove SGLP3004, 2011)



Titres

A1 Living In The Ghetto 6:32
A2 Why 4:37
A3 Lady 3:37
A4 We Got To Pull Together 3:35
(Frank Smith)

B1 What You Do To Me 3:32
B2 Marching To A Different Drummer 15:24
(Paroles : Bob Craig)




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Purple Image - S/T



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