Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World - out june 21st on Numero Group
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World
(CD/LP+7 inch) Numero Group NUM037, 2011-06-21
While most digger's labels are now hunting for Afro, Thai, Persian and more otherwordly funk, the Numero Group is still hard at work on its quest for rare and unhear American Funk and Soul, and their latest discovery is an absolute gem of psychedelic soul. As much spiritual adherents of black sounds as they were of black Islam, Father's Children was born in the dirt and grime of Washington, D.C., and incubated in local producer Robert Hosea Williams' less-than-immaculate suburban beltway garage. Hailing from the Adams-Morgan neighborhood, in 1973 Nick Smith, Billy Sumler, and Ted “Skeet” Carpenter created a lost document of gritty soul, concerned with its own time and place, stripped of the L.A. gloss that permeated the the group's own 1979 "debut" for Mercury. Unreleased until now, Father's Children's true freshman offering is an amalgam of sunny vocal group harmonies, fuzz guitar solos, shimmering keys, bubbling percussion, spiritual prophecy, and dub experiments. Who's Gonna Save The World gets the full Numero treatment, with extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos. Deluxe LP edition includes a bonus 45.
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