PRAISE POEMS 2 - A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s | Various Artists

PRAISE POEMS 2 - A journey into deep, soulful jazz & funk from the 1970s

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Andrew Jervis There's no way this could be as good as Volume 1, right? Wrong. Killer comp. Keep 'em coming Tobias. Favorite track: Missed Another Day.

Maduka Beautiful selection of soulful, jazzy and funky songs. This is perfection with nothing but great tunes! Thank you for putting this together. Favorite track: In This Strange Strange Land.

Daniel Schmitt Second edition of this essential compilation and a high quality follower of volume 1!!! Many many rare and forgotten pieces included. Favorite track: Scratch My Back (Part 1).

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	1.	Fly Away 03:03
	2.	Dawn (Part 1) 03:05
	3.	Dawn (Part 2) 02:12
	4.	Missed Another Day 03:21
	5.	Would You Believe 02:14
	6.	Spanish Guitar 02:12
	7.	In A Galaxy Far Away 03:44
	8.	The Dude 02:38
	9.	The Provider 05:16
	10.	Masquerade 05:40
	11.	In This Strange Strange Land 03:40
	12.	Wild Wild World 03:52
	13.	Take You For A Ride 03:20
	14.	Seasons Of Doubt 03:14
	15.	When The Time Is Right 02:41
	16.	Summer Love (Part 1) 03:09
	17.	Summer Love (Part 2) 02:36
	18.	Midnight And You 03:39
	19.	Scratch My Back (Part 1) 02:33
	20.	Scratch My Back (Part 2) 02:38

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"…don't ask if there will ever be a Volume 2. We don't know yet. What we do know is that if we ever come across a similar tour de force as Don McCaslin's composition [Praise Poems], then there will certainly be one…"
These were the final words of the sales notes of Praise Poems Volume 1 which we proudly released earlier this year. And indeed, since then, we discovered a tune which led us to continue to curate this series of obscure, soulful, jazzy and spiritual sounds from back in the day.

The song to which we refer to is Abraham Battat's jazz-samba masterpiece, Fly Away. Fly Away is a righteous combination of sonorous jazz guitar, crackling drums and warm acoustic piano. Floating through the tones as if in a private concert for you in your very living room is an earnest, honest vocal performance bringing a rainbow message of freedom and liberty to the world. This is the standard by which we judged the entirety of this compilation.

Though they may be known in some circles, In the same category of pure beauty are selections by Richard Martian, Larry Covin, and The Gingerbread Express. Of course, good luck finding a copy of Larry Covin's Masquerade or the Portis Brothers' Summer Love. The single hit you receive while doing an online search is the exact same copy from which we took the master. To find a needle in a haystack is a cakewalk compared to turning up a copy of some of these gems to be found here.

Rarity is important, quality is more important, and whether a song has been compiled yet is of the highest consideration. In this case, all but one of them have yet to be compiled elsewhere. By and large, this compilation highlights a unique historical context in the development and splintering of the streams of funk, soul and jazz. There are plenty of true funk elements. There is a spectrum of electronic synth experiments. There is rich post-post-bop instrumentalism, and at least one instance of wah wah flute! And of course, and perhaps most importantly, there is a pervasive message of the attainment of freedom, whether it be through non-attachment, space travel, social action, spirituality, or musical genre blending. The Praise Poems series is an attempt at a faithful snapshot of this revolutionary music before it began it's inevitable backslide into the bourgeois excesses of the jazz-fusion genre. Call it proto-fusion? Exemplified in performances like the cosmic bossa-odyssey of Third Stream, the jazz-pre-fusion of Seeds of Fulfillment, modal-tribal and chant explorations by Bobby Boyd Congress, the cinematic audiophilia of Belgium's Soul Scratchers, the electro-acoustic blend of folk, percussion, and jazz by John Finnigan and Maureen Finlon, or an undeniable funky theatricality by Larry Dismond that would make Galt Mcdermott proud.

All of them finally getting the attention they deserve.

Key selling points:
- most of the songs appear on CD/digital for the very first-time
- the vinyl LP comes with a full album download code
- 12-page CD-booklet contains detailed liner notes and unseen pictures

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released September 1, 2015

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