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June 21st 2011: NUM037 Father’s Children: Who’s Gonna Save The World CD/LP+45
The first (well, second if you count Promise’s appearance on Home Schooled: ABC’s of Kid Soul) offering from the massive wealth of tapes we discovered in producer R. Hosea Williams’ garage in 2009, Who’s Gonna Save The World is the proper debut of Washington DC’s Father’s Children.
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, this 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Who’s Gonna Save The World gets the full Numero treatment, with extensive notes and scores of unpublished photos.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 the bonus 45, “Linda Movement” b/w “Intellect” (the latter side not on the the CD).
July 14th, 2010: CT-010 Stone Coal White LP
Only the 10th record from DJ Shadow’s long running Cali-Tex imprint, Stone Coal White fits the label’s bill of unearthing the most wasted and primitive funk records ever recorded to a T. Some will recognize “You Know” from the black-psych mix bible Chains & Black Exhaust, but as the group’s two 45s exist in single digit quantities, only a handful have heard the rest of this Ho Chi Min City-damaged oeuvre.
Their two 45s have been bolstered with four previously unissued tracks, found in the basement of a now-condemned motorcycle gang hideout in Dayton, Ohio. It’s that serious.
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STONE COAL WHITE! STONE COAL WHITE! STONE COAL WHITE!
Comment by cleveland April 27, 2011 @ 8:26 amHa! Exactly what i was gonna write… have been patiently waiting for this one for years
Comment by cortez April 27, 2011 @ 1:52 pmLooks like two awesome heavy-hitters.
Comment by Marc B. from Chicago April 27, 2011 @ 3:08 pmFree MP3:
http://www.alteredzones.com/posts/1391/fathers-children-everybodys-got-problem/
Sounds great; this is on my “will buy” list. Thanks.
Comment by DJ M May 20, 2011 @ 6:58 pm[...] soul outfit from DC. I’m not really familiar with the group, but this little nugget in the description from their blog is all I needed to hear: “an amalgam of sunny vocal group harmonies, fuzz-guitar solos, [...]
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