Chi Sei ? - Franco Micalizzi - 1974

1. Bargain With The Devil
2. Jessica's Theme
3. Dimitry's Theme
4. Robert's Theme
5. Jessica Theme N. 2
6. Family's Theme N.2
7. Bargain With The Devil (orchestra)
8. Flute Sequence
9. Dimitry's Theme (slow Version)
10. Family's Theme (slow Version)

1975 / RUDY RAY MOORE // DOLEMITE

Rudy Ray Moore's first Dolemite movie featured a great, raw funk soundtrack with many strong wah guitar funk instrumentals and good vocal tracks. "Mayor's Get-Away" is one of the better funk moments - a real funk bomb !!(source. blaxploitation.com)
Sorry for the quality (you'd better buy it !!!)

1978 Carlos Dafé - Pra que vou recordar

Dafé was born into a family of musicians in Rio de Janeiro, having learned how to play the cavaquinho, mandolin and accordion with his father. Later, he studied the piano and the bass, having joined a few orchestras. In the 1960s, he started out as a vocalist in nightclubs in Rio and São Paulo. In the 70s he added soul music elements to his songs, as heard on the album "Venha Matar Saudades" (1978, with Banda Black Rio). He was established as one of the most important names in Brazilian soul music, along with Tim Maia, Cassiano and Gerson King Kombo. He's had songs recorded by artists like Nana Caymmi ("Passarela") and Tânia Maria ("A Cruz").
Check the song "De Alegria Raiou O Dia", recently covered by Seu Jorge.

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1979 Le Pamplemousse - Planet of love

Le Pamplemousse was the brainchild of Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder. Much like Phil Spector, a decade earlier, these producers would create outlets for their musical genius. These outlets or studio groups, would often feature the same musicians and singers. Interchangeable pieces in the master plan. The faces might change but the name and sound were constant.

Some of the many singers that comprised Le Pamplemousse were: Brenda, Valerie and Shirley Jones (The Jones Girls), Alexandra Brown, Patricia Hall, Mortonette Jenkins, and Laurin himself.

Side A
1. Planet Of Love (7.40)
2. You Can Get Off On The Music (7.25)

Side B
1. Back Street City Lights (7.01)
2. Creepin' (7.13)
3. I've Been Watching You (4.08)

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1977 - Morning, Noon and Night

Morning Noon and Night were a six piece group who released one album for the United Artists subsiduary Roadshow Record label in 1977.
The group were introduced to legendary producer Michael Stokes by Sam Taylor in 1977.
The resulting album became popular, initially, for the club anthem 'Bite Your Granny', which proved highly popular in the U.K. nightclubs at the time.
The track 'Time' has become the track that many soul punters go for today
Musicians involved with the project included Eddie Willis, Rodrick 'Peanut' Chandler, Rudy Robinson and George Roundtree.
The group disappeared from the soul scene after this release.

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1976 - El Coco - Let's get it together

El Coco was the best-known of several projects by cult disco favorites W. Michael Lewis and Laurin Rinder, who produced, arranged, wrote, and played all the instruments on the vast majority of their material.
Their distinctive sound was partly a result of their jazz training, which showed up not only in their arrangements and chord progressions, but in the overall musicality and sonic imagination. Rinder had been a longtime session and touring drummer for rock and soul artists, and played on sessions at Motown and Muscle Shoals.
He met keyboardist Lewis in Los Angeles during the late '60s at an audition for the Standells; the two went on to play in a rock band called Joshua, and in 1973 were hired by the AVI label to play on some extended RB remixes geared for danceclub play.
Thus hooked into the emerging disco sound, Rinder and Lewis began producing and recording their own tracks in 1975, issuing the LP Caravan under the fictitious group name El Coco (a drug reference).
Mondo Disco followed in 1976, as did Let's Get It Together, the point where they really hit their stride.
The title cut was co-written by singer Merria Ross and was a substantial club hit, breaking El Coco on the disco scene.
The title tracks on 1977's Cocomotion and 1978's Dancing Paradise were also successful, with the former (again co-written by Ross) ranking as El Coco's best-remembered outing. By this time, Rinder and Lewis were producing TV theme music as well, and began issuing side projects on the Butterfly label as well; these alternate guises included Tuxedo Junction, Saint Tropez, le Pamplemousse, Rinder Lewis, and the Rinlew Allstars. Following 1979's Dance Man, the duo retired the El Coco name to concentrate on their other projects; in the wake of the anti-disco backlash, they remained in television for a time during the early '80s before retiring from music.

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1979 Parlet - Invasion of the booty snatchers

The trio, all P-Funk veterans by 1978 was originally comprised of Debbie Wright, Jeanette Washington and Mallia Franklin. Wright and Washington had been touring with P-Funk since the first large scale tour in 1975, becoming the first official female members of P-Funk. The third member, Mallia Franklin had been an associate and confidant of Clinton's since she was in her early teens. Franklin brought William 'Bootsy' Collins from Toronto to Clinton in 1971.Debbie Wright and Mallia Franklin had been session vocalists for Parliament-Funkadelic since the early seventies. Parlet's debut album 'Pleasure Principle' was released in February 1978. It was the first female satellite from the George Clinton Mothership with the title track being the first release. It reached #66 on the R&B charts. Debbie Wright left Parlet only a month after the albums release. Wright's abrupt departure stunted the promotional growth of the album and it floated without the groups support for months.

With a summer tour looming, the remaining members hired Shirley Hayden to replace Wright and tour in support of the album. After a summer tour with Bootsy's Rubber Band and big funk events like the monumentous Chicago funk fest at Soldier Field, Clinton opted to drop Parlet from the P-Funk Anti-Tour in the fall of 1978 and chose to take the Brides only. Speculation for Clinton's choice swirled from money issues to intimidation of the groups powerful show. Parlet began to perform outside of the Clinton veil opening for groups like WAR. They returned to the Parliament-Funkadelic fold for a European tour in the winter of 1978 with P-Funk and Brides Of Funkenstein. Theirstability would be short lived with Mallia Franklin making a decision to leave Parlet as soon as they returned to American soil. She sighted the treatment of Parlet, as well as an opportunity to lead a band with bassist, Donnie Sterling as her motives. The proposed Sterling Silver Starship with Franklin and Sterling began recording in early 1979. At that same time, Parlet was regrouping with a new member, Janice Evans.

After the arrival of Janice Evans, the second Parlet album for Casablanca "Invasion Of The Booty Snatchers" was released in April of 1979. The album was comprised of songs already recorded with Franklin (Ridin' High, No Rump To Bump and Huff-N-Puff), a song with road manager, Cheryl James as the third lead singer (Booty Snatchers) and new songs recorded with Evans (You're Leaving and Don't Ever Stop (Lovin' Me, Needin' Me). Casablanca attempted to save their investment with a promotional blitz for the album, but Clinton's fervor for the group had diminished with the exits of Wright and then Franklin. Shirley Hayden and Jeanette Washington continued on with Janice Evans for the minimal promotion and touring that the P-Funk organization was allowing for the group. The trio did perform on all of the legendary "World's Greatest Funk Festivals" around the country in the summer of 1979, featuring Bootsy's Rubber Band, Rick James, P-Funk, The Brides and others. Despite the inconsistency of the group, the first single "Ridin' High" turned out to be Parlet's highest charting single at #49 on the R&B charts.

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Operation Heritage

After your request, here is OPERATION HERITAGE !

The French Jazz-Funk was born. It's not a badly imitated American funk. This music succeeded in being a crossroad, a hub of Jazz and popular music. In other words, a music both wholly accessible and skillful and at the same time dancable and cerebral. It couldn't wait any longer to make this music known. Come and enjoy the sound of the groovy French hippies of CORTEX, the powerful Funk of ICE ( "the seven Americans in Paris"), the marvelous melodies (check out the loops!!!) of Daniel Janin and Jean-Claude Pierric, the beat of Harlem Pop Trotters, the disco-funk of Etienne Cap or the jazz-funk of Chute Libre. This is pure roots and funky music from the 70's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Face 1

1. Chute Libre (1978) " Octopus "
2. Last Exit (1979) " Sweet Maryline "
3. J.L Férré et son orchestre (1975) " dig yourself up "
4. J.D Mercier (1979) " Après Noël "
5. D. Janin et J.C Pierric (1977) " Rolly Pooly "
6. Cortex (1975) " Huit Octobre 1971 "

Face 2

1. Ice (1976) (unrealeased) "Time Will Tell"
2. Les News Boys (1976) "Four Forth"
3. Harlem Pop Trotters (1974) "La Moto Verte"
4. D. Janin et son orchestre (1975) "Saramina"
5. E. Cap and his orchestra (1979) "Pass The Pepper"
6. Rhythm machine (1976) "If I Could Live"

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1977 Rinder & Lewis - 7 deadly sins

Laurin rinder & w michael lewis produced many great disco acts in the late 70's on the avi and butterflylabels but it was their own albums that were the real classics., of these projects, 1977's electronic discoconcept album, 'seven deadly sins' contained such seminal garage/loft classics as 'lust', 'greed' and 'envy'plus the ahead of it's time dark proto-techno cut 'anger', which was a massive ron hardy/music box fave, andwas sampled on carl craig's 'tres demented', and re-edited on moxie #1 (allegedly also by carl craig)packaged in original picture cover as above.

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Funk de Luxe

Face 1

1. Synthesis (1976) "Sophie's gift"
2. André Ceccarelli "Gang Progress"
3. Etienne Cap (1979) "Take a Taxi"
4. Edition Spéciale "Mister Business"
5. Airto Fogo "Jungle Bird"
6. Les Wanted "Six, Quatre, Nous"

Face 2

1. Night Creatures "That's the night"
2. Fooka Mainty Band "Let's get it together"
3. VIP Connection "West Coast Drive"
4. Last Exit "Sweet & fool like a Child"
5. Schifters "Old Timmy"

"Funk de Luxe" is a compilation of 13 really rare funky tracks (CD version) produced in France in the 70's. Do not look for well known artists, for national or international stars. These tracks never knew the CD area ! 100 % analogic and proud of it. But if you want to know who were animating this joyous Funk celebration, from its deep roots side to its jazzy style, you would be surprised to find the most sharpy studio musicians of that time. For example, the band "Synthesis" hides behind a beautiful relief cover artists such as François Janneau, André Ceccarelli, Didier Lockwood. In "Last Exit" you will find Christian Gaubert, Jean Schulteis, and Jannick Top and many other music masters

We are so less surprised by the great quality of these music tracks which can compete American productions of that period. Moreover, the "UFO" music track called "Old Timmy", a real rare groove bomb with an over powerful sound, was created by the composer of the French satirical TV cartoon "Les Shadocks" ! With "Gang Progress" (friends of samples, this track is for you) and its anthologic breakbeat was forged by André Ceccarelli the genius who also played with Miles Davis. Dive into the sweet flavor of the texts of "Edition Spéciale" greatly served by an funky instrumental sound, hurt your brain with the heavy weight rythmic of "that's the night" where we discover a Jean-Pierre Sabar with arrangements totally different from what he did with Françoise Hardy. And we let you discover the incredible talent of Jean-Claude Pierric and his friends, the magic groove of the "Fooka Mainty Band", the crazy Disco Funk of Etienne Cap, the break beats of Airto Fogo, the power of VIP Connection. In this ultra dancing ensemble which will change yours minds, there is a homogeneity of rythm and sound, as the compilation has been thought and made with love of the good sound and in the respect of listeners. As usual Hutch Production was not looking for the trade side but tried to build a homogeneous project with a unique quality. In this kind of music where sharks with money think they are gold prospectors, Hutch Production doesn't forget that the essential remains the satisfaction of the most strict audience as the one of collectionnors (such as us) and the adhesion of a larger audience that this bomb collection will not let insensitive. With fidelity and humility we let you eat this "Funk de Luxe" and continue to keep the Funk alive !

( from http://hutchprod.free.fr/ )

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1977 - Serge Gainsbourg - Madame Claude

This LP is one of his very best funk soundtracks - it's killer late 70s, tight funk all through. Gainsbourg parodies the disco feel but makes it so damn funky it's unrecognisable. Electric piano, choppy guitar, slap/pluck bass, tight drums, wicked tunes. Mostly instrumental, this album is a superb funk soundtrack that, for our money, rates with Hanged Man and Coffy for sheer funk.
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1976 - Airto Fogo

Very rare instrumental LP only released in France and Canada
Airto Fogo is a French artist that you can find here in 2 compilation, "operation heritage" and "funk de luxe" with other french artists like Andrée Cecarelli (i saw him in concert with Lalo Schifrin last week !), Etienne Cap or Edition Speciale, etc...
A must Have !

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1975 - 21th Century - ahead of our time

Great LP from a small band, a jackson5 like.
enjoy the title 'mirror mirror', a dancefloor killer !!!

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1975 - Francis Lai - Le corps de mon ennemi

From a mid-70s Belmondo movie, this French score sees Francis Lai move away from his traditional lush arrangements into a harder, more guitar-lead environment. A tough action movie calls for tough sounds, and this album is no exception. The music is as dark as the album sleeve, featuring menacing brass, guitar and analogue synth. Some of the music has a progressive rock influence and even a slight middle eastern feel in places. There are several outstanding funk numbers (Number one, jack pot...). Recorded at the legendary Studios Davout, source of many killer French funk records... must be something in the air...
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1979 - Sweet Talks

Forget about the cover, this it a KILLER Lp of 1979.
The first and the last record of this band but a real masterpiece !!!
Can you tell me how many LP have got as much wonderfull boogie tracks as this one ?
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1977 - União Black

The golden age of Black Rio Movement started in 1971 and the biggest band of them all was Banda União Black.
This is the original LP from the 70's.
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