Afrodelic Kraut Funk from the minds behind the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers! Now-Again Records follows up The Heliocentrics’ percussive excursions into the astral realms of psychedelia with an album of Afro-tinged funk music originating from the Southern Sahara and recorded in Germany.

Karl Hector has, to date, only appeared on one 7-inch, from 1996, as the leader of the Funk Pilots. For this album, he has teamed up with Jay Whitefield (producer and guitarist for the Poets of Rhythm and the Whitefield Brothers, and founder of the now defunct Hotpie & Candy Records) and Thomas Myland and Zdenko Curlija, founders of The Malcouns.

Alongside Bo Baral, other members of the Poets of Rhythm and crack Munich- based session musicians, Whitefield, Myland and Curlija have crafted nearly twenty tracks that follow the musical roads that Hector has travelled. The underlying groove that ties these ideas together, of course, is as rooted in James Brown as it is Fela Kuti. As informed by Mulatu Astatke of Ethiopia as it is by Jean-Claude Vannier and Can. This is an album of the world. Not “world music” but that will appeal to any culture ever transfixed by rhythm on “the one.”

Tracklist:

1. When the Sun Breaks Through 

2. Nyx

3. Followed Path

4. Transition

5. Sahara Swing 

6. Psycles

7. Transition 

8. Koloko Pt. 1

9. Debere

10. Transition

11. Jabore Pt. 3 

12. Mystical Brotherhood 

13. Timely Interruption 

14. Transition

15. Mellow (version)

16. Rush Hour

17. Transition 

18. Toure Samar 

19. Passeau Ru