Energy Flash

"My purpose was simple: to catch the feel, the pulse of rock, as I had lived through it. What I was after was guts, and flash, and energy, and speed" - NIK COHN - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the music was new and had no rules" -LUNA C

Friday, March 28, 2025

nuumiest of the nuum nuum

Well I did not know this existed until recently (via Pearsall at Dissensus ) An almost remake of this just-pre-nuum classic

Monday, March 17, 2025

the funk frontline: tribal vibes and family fervour

Fascinating 1980 program presented by Danny Baker, who fiercely argued in the pages of the NME at that time for jazz-funk as the real-deal...

Sunday, March 9, 2025

"A mind with no ceiling" (RIP Roy Ayers) (It's "Daylight" Raving Time!)

I love Roy Ayers ... But when I say that I mainly mean I love RAMP, a Roy Ayers Music Project composed of other musicians and singers, with...

Thursday, February 27, 2025

RIP Gwen McCrae

Gwen McCrae - my favorite of the two formidable Gwens in soul and funk. She had two great phases and a pretty nice moment in the middle. ...

Sunday, February 23, 2025

amapianuumo

I am honestly not particularly invested in whether the hardcore continuum, er, continues * But it is funny - and delightful - that things ...

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