Various Artists - An ESP Disk Guide To Funky Soul & Acid Jazz Vol.1 (1994)
Artist: Various Artists
Title: An ESP Disk Guide To Funky Soul & Acid Jazz Vol.1
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: ZYX Music
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Folk, Acid Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 01:13:49
Total Size: 446 Mb (covers)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: An ESP Disk Guide To Funky Soul & Acid Jazz Vol.1
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: ZYX Music
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelic Folk, Acid Jazz, Jazz-Funk
Quality: Flac (tracks)
Total Time: 01:13:49
Total Size: 446 Mb (covers)
WebSite: Album Preview
01. Randy Burns - Song for an Uncertain Lady 4:37
02. Joel Tobias - It's No Secret 3:16
03. Barry Titus - Middle of B'Way 3:45
04. Woodstock Workband - I Got a Light 4:21
05. The Don Moore Band - Party Going on in Woodstock 5:46
06. Les Visible - Third World Bummer 5:40
07. Woodstock - Sitting on a Mountain 3:23
08. Marc Black - Cushy Cushy Vibe 5:00
09. Godz - Oh Woman 3:20
10. Tiger! Tiger! - Love Me Baby 3:42
11. Old Timey Custard Suckin’ Band - Sittin' on the Top of the World 3:08
12. Barry Titus - Big Strong Man 3:23
13. Levitts - Notes So High 6:00
14. Jerry Moore - Let Go, Reach Out 3:31
15. Octopus - Fruk Juice 14:56
"An ESP Disk Guide To Funky Soul & Acid Jazz Vol. 1" is a highly unique and rare compilation album, released in 1994 by the German label ZYX Music in collaboration with the cult American underground label ESP-Disk.
Despite its catchy and fashionable title for the 1990s, this compilation presents a unique historical paradox.
The album's title ("Funky Soul & Acid Jazz") is more of a marketing ploy for the mid-1990s, when the acid jazz wave was at its peak. In reality, the cover reveals raw, psychedelic, funky, and folk-influenced underground music from the ESP-Disk catalog of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The American label ESP-Disk, founded by Bernard Stallman, went down in history as the main bastion of radical free jazz (Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, and Ornette Coleman all recorded there) and the wild counterculture rock underground (The Godz, The Fugs). However, in the late 1960s, the label also signed more song-driven, yet still deeply alternative, artists—folk singers, the hippie communes of Woodstock, and experimental pop groups.
In 1994, the ZYX Music label decided to collect these half-forgotten archival recordings and present them as "harbingers" of funk and acid jazz.
Despite its catchy and fashionable title for the 1990s, this compilation presents a unique historical paradox.
The album's title ("Funky Soul & Acid Jazz") is more of a marketing ploy for the mid-1990s, when the acid jazz wave was at its peak. In reality, the cover reveals raw, psychedelic, funky, and folk-influenced underground music from the ESP-Disk catalog of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The American label ESP-Disk, founded by Bernard Stallman, went down in history as the main bastion of radical free jazz (Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, and Ornette Coleman all recorded there) and the wild counterculture rock underground (The Godz, The Fugs). However, in the late 1960s, the label also signed more song-driven, yet still deeply alternative, artists—folk singers, the hippie communes of Woodstock, and experimental pop groups.
In 1994, the ZYX Music label decided to collect these half-forgotten archival recordings and present them as "harbingers" of funk and acid jazz.
