Ezekiel Combination

 

 

From Strut's glorious Nigeria 70 series, the 3-minute perfection of The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination's Ire... 

'a trio whose members were all graduates of Koola Lobitos, the group founded in the late 50s in London by Fela Kuti...released three Nigerian singles during the early 1970s before emigrating to Italy'

 

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Criminal clonk

Bracing vigour & spikiness in this exemplary, lithe exhibit from Strut's forthcoming retrospective of Ze's punk-funk/no wave/cowbell clonk - by a group overlooked at the time by at least one of LMYE's co-authors, despite his ownership of Mutant Disco (& who, indeed, are still obscure enough to not make the Ze 30 cover ahead of even Marie et les Garcons...).

Exemplary except for the criminal harmonica breakdown at 1:55 (& again, only worse, at 2:24), that is... Disco re-editors*, start your engines!

Casino Music > The Beat Goes On (from Ze 30: Ze Records Story 1979-2009, Strut; originally on Jungle Love, Ze)

Comically hostile review by Metal Bastard Goes Soft here.

* Talking of whom, try Mau: he almost redeems fairly loathsome Fleetwood Mac track with some lovely Swedish "violation" (those hi-hats & keys!). His remorseless eclecticism also takes in Black Sabbath, Buddy Guy, Cocteau Twins, Bruce Springsteen &, most successfully, Roxy Music...

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