Luaka Bop: Africa: Love's a Real Thing

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Come down and join us for these special parties celebrating the new release of World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's A Real Thing. The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa:

March 12	NYC-Globesonic at Nublu (62 Ave C.)
March 17	LA – Afro Funke at Temple (1026 Wilshire Blvd)
April 7	SF – Tunnel Top (601 Bush Street)
May 20	Chicago –Africa Hi-Fi at Sonotheque (1444 W. Chicago)
TBD	LA – Funky Soles at Star Shoes (6364 Hollywood Blvd)

Delve into West Africa's decade-delayed funky polyrhythmic take on psychedelia. From the Gold Coast to Cameroon, traversing the territory of Jimi Hendrix and James Brown, this album is an African assimilation of the psychedelic revolution - distorted, political, hallucinogenic, and, of course, danceable. Thousands of miles from the Summer of Love's utopian origins, yet somehow, not so far away... “Rock's Summer of Love dispersed utopian thoughts, wah-wah pedals and fuzzboxes around the world to places including West Africa. There, in the late 1960's and early 1970's, bands added them to already simmering local concoctions of tradition and funk. "World Psychedelic Classics 3: Love's a Real Thing - The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa" (Luaka Bop) collects a dozen sterling examples: Gambian garage-rock, modal Malian funk, a Guinean-Cuban guajira with a wah-wah lead and a proto-electro protest song by William Onyeabor from Nigeria. The equipment now sounds charmingly vintage, but the rhythms still jump.” -Jon Pareles, Sundays Arts and Leisure "Playlist"