This is from a comp called Ouaga Affair: Hard Won Sound of the Upper Volta 1974-1978. I don't know much more about it other then I purchased it solely based on the cover and it fucking rules. Note the "fucking". Plenty of liner notes if you really want to know what's good. The guitars on this are sick.
Maybe my favorite album of all time... I don't know. Relax.
This might be one of my favorite songs? Funkadelic's first LP. Clinton recorded everything but the lead guitar parts, he slowed down the tape and had the guitarist (Ray Monette?) play over them. He then brought the backing tapes to full speed to make the guitar sound completely otherworldly. Clinton didn't do much singing or playing in the early incarnations of his bands but he created the music by bringing together amazing musicians and producing the efforts. Along with Lee Scratch Perry and Brian Eno, Clinton created new sounds that have shaped modern music as we know it. Check Funkadelic's second LP Free Your Mind ...And Your Ass Will Follow for what it sounds like when everyone takes acid and makes a record for a major label, circa 1970.
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