One of my favorite albums,jazz-funk,soul,funk. Amnesty -Free Your Mind - ( 1973 )

Amnesty ‎– Free Your Mind: The 700 West Sessions
Sello:
Now-Again Records ‎– NA5027
Formato:
2 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Gatefold Sleeve

País:
US
Publicado:
2007
Género:
Funk / Soul
Estilo:



Lista de Títulos

A1 Can I Help You?
A2 Love Fades
B1 Mister President
B2 Free Your Mind
C1 We Have Love
C2 Lord Help Me
C3 Three Cheers For My Baby
D1 Trouble Will Remain
D2 We've Come A Long Way
D3 Liberty


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Manufactured By – Fat Beats Distribution
Distributed By – Fat Beats Distribution
Distributed By – Stones Throw Records
Recorded At – 700 West Recording Studio
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Now-Again Records
Copyright (c) – Now-Again Records

Créditos

Artwork By – Matt Rowland
Bass – James "Red" Massie
Drums – Kirk Alexander
Engineer – Moe Whittemore
Guitar, Vocals – Calvin Williams
Lead Vocals, Percussion – Damon Malone
Mastered By – Dave Cooley, Kelly Hibbert
Other [Antholgy Production, Research And Annotation] – Eothen Alapatt
Other [Digital Archiving And Editing] – Bill Johnson
Percussion – Raphael Barnes
Producer – Amnesty
Saxophone – James "Gino" Johnson
Trumpet, Vocals – Herman Walker
Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion – Joseph Trotter

Notas
Recorded in Indianapolis, IN between 9/22/73 and 11/20/73.

 http://www.nowagainrecords.com/amnesty-free-your-mind-the-700-west-sessions/

Fans of the exquisite, often never-before-released funk championed by Now Again Records are no stranger to Amnesty. Based in Indianapolis in the early 1970s, the group released only two obscure 45s in their recording career. Birthed from the same scene as the Ebony Rhythm Band (Soul Heart Transplant – NA 5011), Amnesty had a poltical edge similar to LA Carnival (Would Like To Pose A Question – NA 5009) and the hardest brass section since The Kashmere Stage Band (Texas Thunder Soul – NA 5023).
This previously unreleased anthology comes from the same sessions as “Free Your Mind”. In 1973 Amnesty recorded five hard, vocal funk numbers alongside some ballads and a handful of demos based around nothing more than guitar accompaniment. Only two songs were ever released; Amnesty’s biting, difficult-to-categorize prog/rock/soul/funk stretched far beyond Indianpolis’s bounds and the band didn’t have a label to take them to the next level.
Obviously influenced by, but by no means simply imitators of, the sound of early Parliament and Funkadelic, Amnesty also responds to the grooves of Earth Wind and Fire and Sly and The Family Stone in their own way. Finally made available thirty three years after they were recorded, these songs are funk arranged with dangerous complexity and performed with precision – arguably the most unique funk to originate from Naptown, and some of the best music of its kind