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Manu Doumbia “Ceddo End Title”

• World Psychedelic Classics, Vol. 3: Love’s A Real Thing: The Funky Fuzzy Sounds of West Africa compilation

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Kings Go Forth - One Day (2010)

If you like early 70s Curtis Mayfield, you’ll love this song. Kings Go Forth were a ten pierce Milwaukee soul revivalist group.

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Jazz Saxophonist Pharoah Sanders Dead at 81

- “Always and forever the most beautiful human being,” Luaka Bop label says

Jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, whose six-decade career found him collaborating with everyone from John Coltrane to Joey DeFrancesco, has died at age 81, his record label said.

No cause was given.

“We are devastated to share that Pharoah Sanders has passed away,” Luaka Bop said in a Sept. 24 statement.

“He died peacefully surrounded by loving family and friends in Los Angeles earlier this morning. Always and forever the most beautiful human being, may he rest in peace.”

Sanders began his career with Coltrane in 1965. He went on to work with Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, DeFrancesco and others, while also releasing some 30 solo recordings.

“He will be greatly missed,” the Sun Ra Arkestra tweeted.

Though he continued playing live, Sanders went nearly two decades without releasing any new music until 2021’s acclaimed Promises.

“Listening to Pharoah Sanders made me a better human being,” Timothy Showalter, who performs as Strand of Oaks, said in a tweet.

“Transformative art at its highest level. No greater gift someone can give. Rest in power.”

9/24/22

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The Staples Jr. Singers — When Do We Get Paid (Luaka Bop)

Photo by Eliza Grace Martin

“When Do We Get Paid” slouches into view in 12/8 time, its blues licks so far in the pocket that you can feel your socks through them, its visceral scrawl of bass inviting movement of the lower half of the body. The singer, Edward Brown, has a fine expressive tone, with an impressive growl at the low end and a fluttery, fluid falsetto. The song could come from the slower end of the Stax catalogue, with its stinging guitar notes, its insistent grind of bass, and yet, the song is no Saturday night special. The long-awaited payday is in heaven, not at the local bank, funk swagger notwithstanding.

The Staples Jr. Singers were a gospel-soul trio formed in the early 1970s by two brothers and a sister, ranging in age from 11 to 13. Born in Aberdeen, Mississippi, the blues-steeped hometown of Bukka White, the three children had no real relation to the more famous Pops-and-Mavis Staples except admiration. Their real name was Brown: Annie, A.R.C. and Eddie Brown.

The trio started small at local talent shows and church picnics, but soon were performing all over the south, sometimes driving in a family van to three shows a day through the Mississippi delta and beyond. When Do We Get Paid, their sole full-length album, was recorded in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1975 with a mysterious impresario known only as Big John. Never widely distributed — the Browns sold copies from their front lawn, mostly — the album had been out of print for decades when Luaka Bop included the Staples Jr. Singers’ track “We’ve Got a Race to Run” on its World Spirituality 2 compilation. A short documentary film shows the Staples Jr. Singers more than 40 years later still singing the stirring “When Do We Get Paid,” as if no time at all had passed, though two of them are sitting down.

The Luaka Bop release is from the Staples Jr. Singers’ teenage heyday, not their current iteration, which still performs occasionally. It crackles with youthful energy. “I’m Looking for a Man” swells with ebullient choruses, as the Brown children toss the title back and forth like a spirit-inflated beach ball. “Send It on Down,” smolders with flickering wah-wah’d guitar, Ann Brown holding righteous, note-bending court at the tune’s funky center. The song has a transportive, nearly psychedelic swirl to it, like the Temptations but church bound. “I Feel Good” layers cool, assured vocals over a nettle-sharp tangle of syncopated guitar notes. The funk is genuinely gritty, danceable, almost dirty, and the music takes you out of yourself like great soul tunes always does, but every song is about the musicians’ spiritual journeys.

The Staples Jr. Singers performed and toured in a 1970s south that didn’t always welcome them, and their music never really made it out of the local circuit and into the wider world. When Do We Get Paid is good enough to make you wonder what else is out there from even fairly recent history that racism and ignorance and a total disregard for anything outside the commercial mainstream have kept from us until now?

Jennifer Kelly

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A.R. Kane - New Clear Child (1994)

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Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises - a continuous work in 9 movements, pure bliss, as expected (Luaka Bop)

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Pharoah Sanders – Promises. Luaka Bop : 2021.