Mo’ Blow - For Those About to Funk (2011)

Track listing:

01. Mo’ Blow - Fried Chocolate (4:27)
02. Mo’ Blow - Eleven Feels Like Heaven (4:25)
03. Mo’ Blow - Along Came Mag (4:17)
04. Mo’ Blow - Mac Tough (5:36)
05. Mo’ Blow - Grandpa’s Fairytale (6:16)
06. Mo’ Blow - Volkman’s Van (4:20)
07. Mo’ Blow - Groomsman (5:01)
08. Mo’ Blow - Mo’bilé (6:10)
09. Mo’ Blow - New Meditation (3:20)
10. Mo’ Blow - Ricky The Lobster (4:12)
11. Mo’ Blow - 75 Percent in Love (4:48)

Germany is not exactly known as the home of soul and funk, but after you’ve heard Mo’Blow from Berlin you will think differently about the country where the ‘1’ and the ‘3’ are becoming more and more prominent. The quartet, which the ‘Berliner Zeitung’ described as one of the hottest club bands, has the groove in their blood. With For those about to Funk, their debut album on ACT, Mo’ Blow ticks all the boxes for the label’s Young German Jazz series: refreshingly new, exciting and unconventional, with that certain something and of an international calibre.It was a stay abroad that gave birth to the band – Mo’ Blow’s mastermind and saxophonist Felix F. Falk studied in Liverpool in 2002. Not only did he get to know the spirit of the ‘Fab Four’ but was also infected by funk music, and while there he founded the original line-up of a band...

line up
Felix F. Falk / saxes, didgeridoo, perc
Matti Klein / rhodes
Tobias Fleischer / bass
André Seidel / drums

Guests:
Nils Landgren / trombone (on 1, 3, 6)
Torsten Goods / guitar (on 4, 9)
Magnum Coltrane Price / vocals (on 3)
Magnus Lindgren / tenor sax, flute (on 3, 8)