FRIDAY FUSION
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This week it’s a Weather Report double header — always going to be controversial choosing the ‘definitive’ cuts from this Fusion super group, but to my mind there’s always been two tracks that I’ve come back to time & again.
First up it’s ‘Non Stop Home’ from ’73′s seminal ‘Sweetnighter’. It’s Weather Report’s third album and their beginning to make the transition to synthesizer funk (amongst other things), this number is pure breakbeat pressure from start to finish, led by drummer Eric Gravatt, and aside from some initial abstraction and more structured melody later on, his band mates hardly get a look in.
The next is ‘River People’ a tune which has been re-imagined several times in recent years by nu skool cats like ‘O Boogie’. In truth it’s the first half of this tune that always gets me, thanks to Joe Zawinul’s decadent ARP playing over a classic Pastorius b—line and crunchy hand clap. The LP it’s from ‘Mr Gone’ was released 5 years after ‘Sweetnighter’ — testament to the groups creative prowess over the decade and making them absolutely essential in any Fusion collection.
Weather Report — Non Stop Home
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Hi guys,
I’ve got this LP of Weather Report and quite sure that I have a track (maybe maurice fulton ?) where River pople had been sampled but can’t find it… and it turns me crazy ! Anyone have an idea ?