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What's Going On 180gr LP

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band with guests vocalists including Chuck D, Ivan Neville, G. Love, Guru und Bettye LaVette.

Side A
1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In The Friendly Sky)
4. Save The Children
5. God Is Love

Side B
1. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
2. Right On
3. Wholy Holy
4. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)


In 2006, exactly a year after Katrina, in the
aftermath of a vicious natural disaster that
displayed the incompetence of the Crescent City's
infrastructure, the Army Corps of Engineers, and
the Federal Government, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
addressed the tragedy in the only way they knew
how, by re-creating the same kind of bewilderment
and anger that Marvin Gaye felt and witnessed in
1971, by issuing their own take on Gaye's classic
album What's Goin' On. This is a question that is
proved all the more poignant given the efforts of
an entire region trying not only to rebuild homes
and businesses, but trying to preserve a culture
as this recording was released.

The Dirty Dozen recruit a number of vocalists to
help out on the hinge tunes. The samples of New
Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's voice in the aftermath
of the hurricane usher in the brass slip-sliding
along the dark funky overtones of Gaye's signature
tune. Guitarists Doug Bossi and Ben Keeler dig
into the groove, as does drummer Terence Higgins
and keyboardist/producer Anthony Marinelli, as
Chuck D raps the refrain in the context of modern
history, the disaster, and the ineptitude and even
hostility of a government who wages war and
ignores domestic problems. It's a news report from
the front lines as the horns cut the melody, the
harmony, and the deep, steamy funk groove.

'What's Happening Brother,' closes the funk from
the inside, turning the groove back in on itself
not only playing the rage, but echoing it in the
grain of Bettye LaVette's vocal, which dares to
spit out the truth with questions and observations
in the pain of a first person narrative. The airy
arrangement of 'Flyin' High (In the Friendly
Sky)' is nearly mournful, nostalgic for a more
innocent time, but is all the more poignant for
that longing. The deep tribal drums Mardi Gras
Indian-style, with the skronky saxophones, tight
guitar groove, and screaming narrative in 'Save
the Children' give way to the smoothness of Gaye's
melody. It's a bewildered tune, sad with
undercurrents of rage. Ivan Neville's arrangement
for 'God Is Love' is a stunner, full of deeply
imaginative hues and colors and gospel grooves.

Remastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, London

Kat.č.: PP 10178  (LP - audiofilský vinyl), Pure Pleasure , cena: 899.00 Kč, EAN: 5060149621677 skladem: 1-5ks, expedujeme do 2 dnů