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Spacey Jazz Fusion/Funk Wanted


wishface

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I posted this on Talkbass
 
I'm enjoying Return to Forever right now, along with Santana.
 
I love music that has song titles that sound like science fiction and mixed with a spacey sound and a positive vibe. Good bass work is always a plus.
 
I have Mahavishnu. Don't really count Weather Report. Pharaoh Sanders is rea.ly itneresting, but when he overblows I kinda tune out. 
 
Love that spacey synth sound though
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Have you checked out Miles Davis’s fusion like Agharta or On the Corner, Live evil. Gongs Shamal album.  Also check the Inside from way out - Beastie Boys (instrumental stuff). Some good Headhunters stuff too, Thrust should lube your funk gland 😎

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1 hour ago, Raslee said:

Have you checked out Miles Davis’s fusion like Agharta or On the Corner, Live evil. Gongs Shamal album.  Also check the Inside from way out - Beastie Boys (instrumental stuff). Some good Headhunters stuff too, Thrust should lube your funk gland 😎

I've never really listend to Miles Davis.

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1 hour ago, wishface said:

I've never really listend to Miles Davis.

You’re gonna love his funky fusion jamming then 😊. I find B’itchesBrew a bit intense but Agharta is a personal favourite. 

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2 hours ago, wishface said:

That's some tasty stuff. Shame it's impossible to find anywhere else

It turned me on at age sixteen.

I'm sorry I don't have the LP any more.  It was purely because of the cover art that I made the purchase.  It took me a while to realise that it was not an image of a spacecraft!  I wore out my cassette copy too so the link above was a fortunate find.  Even at that quality, it is better than my worn out copy.

Toefunk is my favourite track out of the album but the whole thing is a trip.  Have fun unscrambling the reverse speech bit.

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2 hours ago, SpondonBassed said:

It turned me on at age sixteen.

I'm sorry I don't have the LP any more.  It was purely because of the cover art that I made the purchase.  It took me a while to realise that it was not an image of a spacecraft!  I wore out my cassette copy too so the link above was a fortunate find.  Even at that quality, it is better than my worn out copy.

Toefunk is my favourite track out of the album but the whole thing is a trip.  Have fun unscrambling the reverse speech bit.

:D Actually i preferred the spacier stuff, tbh. Some nice bass playing. 

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DiMeola: Tour de force (live)

Jeff Beck: Wired

CAB: any record

A. Holdsworth: Metal fatigue

Manring: Thonk

Tribal tech, Bruford...

As an extra, I have to share this link with you. A Finnish composer and a bassist extraordinaire, Mr. Pekka Pohjola:

 

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7 hours ago, wishface said:

That's some tasty stuff. Shame it's impossible to find anywhere else

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/4281019?ev=rb

From https://centraldoprog.blogspot.com/2017/12/visitor-2035-visitor-2035-1978-lp.html

"VISITOR 2035 were a short-lived band based in the UK, with the Irishman John Mason and Craig Pruess , an American residing in UK since 1973. Mason is renowned as a member of the Irish top-notch outfit Fruup; Pruess performed with Mike Oldfield and did arrangements for music of Sarah Brightman, Def Leppard and Massive attack, among many others.
The band self-released 'Cain! A Modern Mystery Play' in 1976, and released the self-titled album in 1978 for the German label Hansa.
The music of Visitor 2035 is heavily rooted in fusion, on the Weather Report/ Return to Forever side, with omnipresent symphonic elements and eerie spacey keyboard textures in Skywhale/ Flight vein. It's recommended to fans of music which is stepping out of the fusion realm, as well as to all fans of good music."

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