Funk Factory - [1975] Funk Factory (2014 Remaster)

Funk Factory - [1975] Funk Factory (2014 Remaster)

Artist: Funk Factory
Album: Funk Factory
Original Release: 1975
This Release: 2014 (Warner Japan)

A massive bit of funky fusion from the 70s – an album that was crucially overlooked at the time, but which has gone onto become a crate-diggers classic over the years! The group's fronted by Polish jazz legends Michal Urbaniak and Urszula Dudziak – but it also features a fair bit of American players too – all working together in a blend of the best funky fusion modes going down in both the US and Eastern Europe in the mid 70s!
Drums on the set are totally great – played by Steve Gadd or Gerald Brown, depending on the track – and some tracks have weird vocal bits that riff around the instrumentation, sung either by Urszula, Bernard Kafka, or some other backing singers. The keyboards are great – quite tripped-out at times, but never too over the top – and overall, the album's a fair bit more soulful and funky than most of Urbaniak's other work of the 70s. Titles include the killer sample track "Rien Ne Va Plus" – used famously by the Beastie Boys many years back – plus "After The World Goes Home", "Funk It", "Sinkin Low", "Next Please", "Horsing Around", and "Watusi Dance".


Track List:
1. Watusi Dance
2. Horsing Around
3. Rien ne va plus
4. After All the World Goes Home
5. Next Please
6. The Music in Me
7. Funk It
8. Lilliput
9. Sinkin' Low

Lineup Includes:
Anthony Jackson - Bass
Steve Gadd - Drums
Bernard Kafka - Percussion
Michal Urbaniak - Strings, violin
Wlodek Gulgowski - Keyboards
Urszula Dudziak - Vocals