This album, "Afreaka!" by the band Demon Fuzz, was their only album released, and that was in 1971. A few years ago it was re-discovered and released on cd. I stumbled upon it while cd shopping one day towards the end of last year, and wrote this blog about my new find. Check out my original blog for details, and then check out this rare masterpiece...
And if you like it, leave me a comment, because I've been finding a lot of this kind of psychadelic-soul-rock stuff lately...and LOVING it. Enjoy!
DOWNLOAD> DEMON FUZZ - Afreaka!
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5 comments:
D...i'm diggin the Fuzz - gotta have mo'...
Thanks for the post; nice grooves going on with this. If you dig this, and it sounds like you do, have stumbled upon any of the Mandingo LPs, all 70s, (Primeival Rhythm of Life, Black Rite, Savage Rite or "III")? Mandingo was an instrumental Library session band that cut some sweet music that's a cross between afro beat and exotica. Thanks again!
Thanks Mista..Love the elclecta-selections.
i just found out these cats released another album. It's called Roots & Offshoots, apparently it's out on cd as well. Anyway, this album is awesome, anyone who loves funk should give this a try.
Great to hear this. Dawn Records was Pye's belated attempt to create a Progressive imprint, in common with other major labels, spying the success of Island in this space. Unfortunately for Pye, all the prog acts most likely to provide a return on investment had already been signed up by EMI's Harvest, Decca's Deram, or Polydor and Atlantic (who were confident enought not to hide behind alter-egos). But, what it meant for Dawn was that they ended up releasing great (but unfashionable) stuff like Demon Fuzz, who probably would have seemed like a bit too much of a risk for the other labels who already had their cash cows. In retrospect Demon Fuzz's unclassifiable sound (Afro-funk-soul-rock?) is so much better than most of the art-school nonsense that filled up the de rigeur comps at the time.("Picnic" springs to mind). Beats most of what Traffic were trying to achieve at the time, by the way. Wonderful stuff - thanks!
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