^ Love that Ofo the Black Company track, Chank. They always deliver.
The Funkees are another Nigerian act with consistently cool sounds. Here's "Point of No Return" from 1975:
This is an amazing thread...I love the sense of history and cross-cultural pollination! I wish it was possible to find out what fuzzes some of these guys were using. I mean, some of them aren't hard to guess but some are just sick.
When I was doing field research in Laos during my anthropology graduate school days, I found out there were some psychedelic currents going on in Southeast Asian music in the Vietnam war days. But interestingly, it doesn't seem to feature fuzz as prominently, at least not the Lao/Thai stuff I heard. Most of it draws on American doo-wop type music or Cuban big band productions (especially the Thai "Luk Thung" genre). The indie band Dengue Fever seems to have unearthed some fuzzier moments in pre-Khmer Rouge Cambodian rock, but I haven't tracked down any of the original stuff they're drawing on to compare.
Re: The African fuzz thread
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 4:45 am
by monolithfuzz
Not fuzzy, but I've been digging all of these Analog Africa releases a lot lately.
Re: The African fuzz thread
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 4:55 am
by monolithfuzz
Re: The African fuzz thread
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 5:19 am
by HorseyBoy
^ Yep, linked to a track in the original post. Absolute MONSTER of an album.
Re: The African fuzz thread
Posted: Sun May 31, 2015 9:01 pm
by chankgeez
With a title like "Psychedelic Shoes", you'd at least expect a fuzz solo. No fuzz solo, but it's pretty groovy anyway:
