• Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Nyx
    • Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Followed Path
    • Karl Hector & The Malcouns – Psycles
    • 1. When The Sun Breaks Through
    • 2. Nyx
    • 3. Followed Path
    • 4. Transition >J<
    • 5. Sahara Swing
    • 6. Psycles
    • 7. Transition >I<
    • 8. Koloko Pt. 1
    • 9. Cebere
    • 10. Transition >Z<
    • 11. Jabore Pt. 3
    • 12. Mystical Brotherhood
    • 13. Timely Interuption
    • 14. Transition >B<
    • 15. Mellow (Version)
    • 16. Rush Hour
    • 17. Transition >W<
    • 18. Toure Samar
    • 19. Passau Run

    Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany. Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns. Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” – but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”

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