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v/a - original raw soul iii - 2lp - now again - vinyl

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Genre: Funk / Soul

1. New Process - Bus People Theme
2. Poets of Rhythm - Summerdays
3. Bajka - A Vision 1/3
4. Karl Hector & The Malcouns - J.B. R.I.P.
5. New Process - Freedom
6. Mercy Sluts - $600 Song
7. Karl Hector & The Funk Pilots - Funky Sex Machine
8. Bajka - The Only Religion That I Believe
9. Whitefield Brothers - The Bastard
10. Polyversal Souls - Muswell Hill Run
11. Karl Hector & The Funk Pilots - Free I Wanna Be
12. Whitefield Brothers - Savannahstan
13. Neo Hip Hot Kiddies Community: Hip Walk
14. Poets of Rhythm: Flight To St. Vincent
15. Mercy Sluts - Banana Republic

Rare and unreleased funk, jazz, soul and world-psych by Now-Again stalwarts Whitefield Brothers, Karl Hector & The Malcouns and the Poets of Rhythm. Comes in a hand silk-screened jacket and ltd to 500 copies only. The LP Includes a 7” of “Willpower” & “Money For Born, Money For Die” by The Transgressors. Check!

It’s been nearly fifteen years since the vinyl-only releases by the various ensembles helmed by Jay and Max Whitefield – also known as the Whitefield Brothers and the nucleus of the revered Poets of Rhythm – were collated onto an Original Raw Soul album. The last – 1997’s More Original Raw Soul – largely contained the duo’s heavy funk and soul… Fitting, then, that this – Original Raw Soul III – looks back at recordings dating back over twenty years but never once sounds dated or dull. There’s the garage funk of the early Poets incarnation the Bus People Express; the deep jazz of vocalist Bajka gigging with a Max Whitefield ensemble; the pan-African psych-jazz of the Whitefield Brothers. And that’s just three of the ensembles contained within. Original Raw Soul III contains fifteen tracks (plus two selections on the bonus 7”) that span the gamut of forty years of musical innovation, recorded over the past twenty years, and presented anew today.