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with your hands

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

i omly know bra by cymande. i think. is that them?

yeah, that's the De La sample. i've never listened to the pharoahs. isn't that where Derf Reklaw is from? arent' they more recent?

gary, round two. you'll like it.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh, the Pharoahs weren't recent. they were what became EW&F's horn section? crazy. you know i saw that reissue around so much in the 90s on the Ubiquity sublabel i just thought it was a new "acid-jazz" record or something. and Derf is still playing the LA scene. i was just all confused.

also, how dumb is his afrocentric name? Derf Reklaw-Raheem

yours,
Nosaj Worrad

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

haha. i have a derf record. on ubiquity. man j i just converted the rest of the psych soul disc and i'm pretty excited. 2 eddie gale discs???? i go back to work tomorrow which means listening time again.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 05:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

stenbce i worked in a place where someone stole a fucking lawnmower...but taking two overpriced records off the wall? where were the staff?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 05:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

o my...fred walker? fer fucks sakes.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 05:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Bra" = godlike.

"fug" = even better.

"dove" = even better still.

"The message" = Perfection.

Really great group.

― Ellis, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

first two lps = classic.

nuff said. nyah rock yall.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

The middle bit of "Bra" also contains the bassline that was nicked for Raze "Jack The Groove".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 09:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Brothers on the Slide"!

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

Great stuff--fans of Funkadelic, JB, Meters, etc. need to hear this band. Is anything available in the US right now? I got a UK comp that has the first three albums a few years ago.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Isn't there another recent compilation with more previously-unissued music? I got their first album by mistake - I thought I was buying a Tasavallan Presidentti record but the first Cymande LP was inside. I loved it, though, and probably never would have known about it if left to my own devices. I found the third one for very little in a charity sale and really like that one, too - the arrangements are more diverse, and I'd always assumed, when I heard a song of theirs was used in a movie, that it had to be "Brothers on the Slide", because it sounded like it could easily be very popular. I bought the UK compilation CD to get the second album and am interested to know about the existence of more recordings.

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:43 (7 years ago) Permalink

There's an actual compilation called "Brothers on the Slide" that came out earlier this year, it's really good, it's subtitled "The Story of UK Funk", has other artists on it. The Cymande track on it is probably the best, I must check out some of their other stuff.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Wow - I've just looked online and found that there's apparently a fourth album called "Arrival" that was recorded but until recently unissued as well as a compilation called "Renegades of Funk" with otherwise unreleased songs (I haven't seen whether those were from "Arrival" or not).

― Pangolino 2, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

I just have the Best Of CD, which is actually a mish-mash of the first two records, but it's hooray-inducingly amazing. CLASSIC.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

"Getting it Back" is a great tune

― todd (todd), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 17:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

"Brothers on the Slide"!
-- Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, July 12, 2005 12:32 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 21:41 (5 years ago) Permalink

nothing tops 'the message'! owing to what was possibly a coldcut radio show i taped and rinsed i forever mentally pair it with eugene mcdaniels 'jagger the dagger'.

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 22:58 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Getting it Back" is a great tune

-- todd (todd), Tuesday, July 12, 2005 6:48 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

this is true. also, i don't think i've seen 'the recluse' get mentioned often.

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 December 2007 23:03 (5 years ago) Permalink

has this record been reissued or is it a weird fluke that I have seen a sealed copy?

― sleeve, Thursday, 6 December 2007 03:52 (5 years ago) Permalink

i've got a reissued record but i got that like 8 yrs ago

― jaxon, Thursday, 6 December 2007 04:32 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

"dove" is what jam bands are supposed to sound like but almost never do.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 March 2009 05:38 (4 years ago) Permalink

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 March 2009 06:19 (4 years ago) Permalink

(the real version is 10 minutes, and all good.)

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 March 2009 06:20 (4 years ago) Permalink

i thank Kinobe for introducing me to this track a few years back having just put some extra drums on it and calling it their own

― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Saturday, 21 March 2009 10:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

i just got the collectables label compilation. seems like kind of a mishmash of the first three albums -- and could use some remastering -- but it's pretty great.

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

(was turned onto them by the track included on the grandfather paradox mix.)

― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 21 March 2009 14:53 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

these guys fucking rock

― Local Garda, Sunday, 3 May 2009 21:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

http://open.spotify.com/track/6Rsqt6Ns4ueTGDwYU8tkWP

― Local Garda, Monday, 4 May 2009 14:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

I love the first album. Should I pick up Second Time Around?

― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 May 2009 15:29 (4 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

sanctuary did a 2cd set of the first 3lps as The Message.

A track was in that 25th Hour film in the Disco scene as far as I can remember. Was that Bra? Been a long time since I saw the film but that struck me. Possibly cos I had the 2cd set.

checking Amazon prives the set looks OOP unfortunately.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 17 March 2011 16:10 (2 years ago) Permalink

yeah it's Bra. I love that scene. "DJ Dust is the truth"

― dmr, Friday, 18 March 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

I love the first album. Should I pick up Second Time Around?

definitely!

― dmr, Friday, 18 March 2011 01:27 (2 years ago) Permalink

― dmr, Friday, 18 March 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink

haha!

― D-40, Friday, 18 March 2011 01:30 (2 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

So who knew?

http://cymande-online.com/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:55 (1 year ago) Permalink

To the exact point -- they've reunited and will be playing out this year, apparently.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 May 2012 17:03 (1 year ago) Permalink

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Anna Paquin will be accompanying them on tour as backup dancers

― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

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