Reblogged from: Funkdirection – Sounds for Adults
William Pulliam alias Darondo finally managed to release a complete album containing songs which were believed to be lost. The booklet describes the main stages of Darondos career and life which is quite colourful and full of ups and downs.
The sixteen songs on the album are a very intense and raw funk, R&B, soul mixture of the San Francisco Bay area and Darondo’s multi-faceted voice perfectly adds to this mixture.
Darondo – Listen To My Song
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Darondo, Funk, r&b, soul, William Pulliam on January 23, 2012 by funktooUK Subs – Another Kind Of Blues
Posted in Music with tags Punk, UK Subs on January 21, 2012 by funktoo
Reblogged from:Anthems From The Alleyways
Just bought UK Subs “Another Kind Of Blues”. It was the first punk band got to know as I was fifteen and that’s over 30 years ago. I heard them the first time as I visited a friend and that was probably the sound I was looking for. Well, I still like them.
Seu Jorge – Zé Do Caroço
Posted in Music with tags Brazil, Seu Jorge on November 4, 2011 by funktoo
This song is so wonderful. Actually this song is quite old and awas lready performed by a few Brazilian artists but in my opinion this is the best version.
Khaled – Bakhta
Posted in Music with tags Algeria, Khaled, Marseille, Rai on November 4, 2011 by funktoo
Just got to dig it out again. My favourite song of Khaled – Bakhta. It’s even better when performed live. I was lucky to see a live gig of Khaled years ago.
Baptiste Debombourg
Posted in art with tags Baptiste Debombourge, Icarus on September 22, 2011 by funktoo
Truly an amazing piece of work by Baptiste Debombourg. It is called Icarus and made of staples shot into a wall.
Gregory Crewdson
Posted in art with tags art, gregory crewdson, photograph on August 11, 2011 by funktoo
I was quite amazed seeing the photographs by Gregory Crewdson which at the first glance look like paintings.
One can simply feel the loneliness of the individuals shown in his dark and cheerless photographs.
Junior Murvin – Police & Thieves
Posted in Music with tags junior murvin, reggae on July 30, 2011 by funktooJunior Murvin – Police & Thieves. A real classic. Amazing that the live performance here sounds just like the album version.
Clint Eastwood & General Saint – Shame & Scandal In The Family
Posted in Music with tags clint eastwood & general saint, reggae on July 30, 2011 by funktooThis is the 12″ version of Shame & Scandal In The Family. It’s from their brilliant album “Stop That Train”.
Seu Jorge – Zé do Caroço
Posted in Music with tags Brazil, samba, Seu Jorge on June 21, 2011 by funktooSeu Jorge – actor and musician, some may still know him from the movie “City Of God”. I heard this song on a series of excellent podcasts made by Gilles Peterson about brazilian music:
Gilles Peterson in Brazil – Part One
Gilles Peterson in Brazil – Part Two
Gilles Peterson in Brazil – Part Three
Gilles Peterson in Brazil – Part Four
Gilles Peterson in Brazil – Part Five
Found a translation of the lyrics here: Lusolife
R.I.P. Gil Scott-Heron
Posted in Music with tags Gil Scott-Heron on May 29, 2011 by funktooThis is really sad sad news. Visited his concert last year which was wonderful. I know his music for about 20 years and Gil Scott-Heron was always something special to me. I believe that it was not only his music but his personality as well why his fans loved him so much.
Perhaps no one can write it down better as Jamie Byng did in his article on The Guardian.
