He bolstered this reputation with the release of the album Black Orpheus in 2003 and a first best-of collection, Rhythm Is Love, in 2004. Several more albums ensued over the next 15 years (African Space Craft, Liquid Sunshine, and Black Orpheus among them), fixing Jones as one of the more prominent blues-rock musicians on the European music scene in the late '90s and early 2000s. One bassist (Phil "Soul" Sewell), one drummer (Richie Stevens), and many gigs later, Jones found himself with his first album, Blufunk Is a Fact!, in 1992. He gigged up a storm in Covent Garden and Portobello Road, which led to his discovery by manager Phil Pickett. But the songs are way too idiosyncratic to fit any modern R&B/funk formulas - so are song titles like “Frinigro Interstellar,” “A Curious Kinda Subconscious,” and “Walkin’ Naked Thru’ a Bluebell Field.” His melodies obey their own rules, taking off from the rhythm of his spiky guitar licks like a bluesman, but it sure ain’t blues.A Nigerian-born rocker heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Fela Kuti, Keziah Jones gained popularity in England and France with singles like "Rhythm Is Love" and "Beautiful Emile." Jones was sent to a boarding school in London when he was eight, and he started busking in the London Underground when he was in his teens. The lineup of guitar, bass, and drums hints at a power trio with solos, but he plays rhythm almost exclusively and the extremely tight, kinetic rhythm section makes the music sound a bit like Tower of Power without horns. Jones is originally from Nigeria, but he’s a young singer/songwriter who plays guitar and there are no obvious traces of African music in the material. See All 12 Rows On Īrtist: Keziah Jones Title Of Album: Blufunk Is A Fact! Year Of Release: 1993 Label: Delabel Genre: Funk, Soul, Electric Blues Total Time: 43:58 min Format: Mp3 / FLAC (tracks +.cue, log-file) Quality: CBR 320 kbps / Lossless Total Size: 113 mb / 293 mb (Covers) Review by Don Snowden Blufunk Is a Fact! Might qualify as a best of genre purely because Keziah Jones is pretty much a one-person genre who demolishes any preconceptions of what kind of music he might play. OSR links and other LotFP stuff: Traveller (Classsic & Mongoose Publishing, including third party stuff and alternate settings) RPG. Electronic (PDF, DOC, eBook, HTML, etc.) Product Code. Sagas of the Icelanders Sagas of the Icelanders Apocalypse World Engine. Sagas of the Icelanders is a game that I have been working on for a while. Or if you just want to find Sagas, jump over here. For the latest state of affairs, let me direct you to this post.
Keziah Jones – Blufunk Is A Fact! Power and uniqueness of Keziah Jones’ music on Blufunk Is a Fact!ħth of November, 2013 UPDATE: If google brought you here looking for Sagas, this post is obviously outdated.
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