P-Funk
TRACK: Leron Thomas’s ‘Endicott’: outrageously leftfield P-funk
LERON THOMAS – the man who oversaw last year’s LP Free for a certain James Newell Osterberg (OK, OK … Iggy Pop to me and thee) has come out from behind the faders to carve some pretty immaculate leftfield funk grooves. He’s dropped a new and seductive quirky thang for Lewis Recordings, “Endicott”, on which …
SEE: Leron Thomas’s ‘Blind’ is a call to wake up from our routines
LERON THOMAS has been quietly making a stir in his native USA for a while with a conscious and deep brand of funk and jazz. More recently he has become known for his behind-the-desk work, overseeing Iggy Pop’s Free LP from last year, which he produced, wrote and toured in cahoots with the garage-punk legend …
Not Forgotten: Parliament – Mothership Connection
Simply put, Mothership Connection is the album which proved that you could do the ostentatiousness of prog rock and still make the listener want to get up and dance. It’s a headspinningly brilliant throw down from funk to every middle-class prog rocker with aspirations to be taken seriously. Sure, prog rock often showed musicianship, but …