Kutiman - Kutiman (2007) CD Rip

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Artist: Kutiman
Title: Kutiman
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Melting Pot Music [MPM 047]
Genre: Soul, Funk, Afrobeat
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log,scans) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 53:11
Total Size: 347 MB(+3%) | 126 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

01 - Bango Fields
02 - No Reason For You (feat. Elran Dekel)
03 - Take A Minute
04 - No Groove Where I Come From (feat. Elran Dekel)
05 - Losing It (feat. Karolina)
06 - Skit
07 - I Just Wanna Make Love To You (feat. Chaka Moon)
08 - Chaser
09 - Once You're Near Me (feat. Elran Dekel)
10 - Escape Route
11 - Trumpet Woman (feat. Karolina)
12 - Music Is Ruling My World (feat. Karolina)
13 - And Out

Ophir Kutiel (the Kutiman moniker stems from his family name, but could as easily be read as admiration for Nigerian Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti) is a solo act from Tel Aviv, Israel, a one-man band who occasionally brings in his friends when he thinks they can improve the sound or he needs some horns (he needs them often). His music is something like Israel itself, a mishmash of things from all over the world, the old and the new side by side, a melting pot with a common overarching identity. He's schooled in the funk and fusion of the 1970s, Afrorock and Afrobeat, heavy psych from the 60s, hip-hop and modern R&B, a bit of reggae and dub, a couple decades of electronic music, and the general art of the groove.
This comes together in a fantastic, head-spinning debut album, a psyched-up groove monster that can't decide between vintage and modern and instead just has it both ways. It works in the same way a lot of releases on the Ubiquity label, like Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra or Will Holland's Quantic, work, by finding that switch that makes you forget about the why and just enjoy the what. It opens with a light appetizer in instrumental "Bango Fields", a basic funk track topped with a squiggle of ring-modulated analog synth that suggests Kutiel might be able to make a pretty good living as a hip-hop producer, but that barely prepares the listener for the album as a whole.

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