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The rare second volume of Tim Maia's Racional album series from the 70s - even funkier and more harder-edged than the first! The record really follows the heavy soul influence that Tim had been hitting on his early 70s albums for Polydor - a strong dose of American funk and R&B, especially from the...

Anchored by seamless jam sessions and syncopated grooves, which Neville would call 'tight, sparse and funky as the fuckin' devil,' The Meters evolved from unfussy, mostly instrumental tracks to full-throated, expansive funk that reached an apex on their fifth album, Rejuvenation, in 1974. With...

There's always a risk you run, when championing a record like Talking to the People, of overstating your case. There's generally an easy-to-grapple-with reason why something that the vast majority of the listening public hasn't listened to hasn't been heard. Poor distribution, something slightly...