Soul Strut 100: # 3 - Cymande (1972)

[tech12z]

Only been digging for about a year now, but this is definitely one of my prized records (free-99, we in there!). It's really special to me because half of the band is from Guyana, like mom and pops. Patriotism and scoundrels aside, Guyana is a very small and forgotten-about country, and there aren't all that many of us on the planet. I kinda hate myself for it, but it really does warm my heart to know that four Guyanese boys helped make one of the very best.

 

[Arkay_East]

Love every second of this album. Would probably be my #1

 

[Arkay_East]

Love every second of this album. Would probably be my #1

 

[SIRUS]

yuichi said:batmon said:


So the question is....when did it get fetishized? after de la soul? Were UK Soul dudes already rockin it?




Like Bra, let it go. It's such a great album. Near perfect..




i think it was a wall of fame type thing. it got play in nyc on the rapp/house tip and then was fetishized everywhere else cause of the raerness. would like to hear a euroman perspective on this.

 

[Jimster]

Getting some props today in Teh Grauniad:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/09/cymande-the-classic-british-funk-band-you-dont-know-you-know

Did a ticket deal for some of the guys a while back at a Jazz Cafe gig, they couldn't get on the guestlist in time but code of the Strut, right?

 

[foe]

they are coming to barcelona, i want to go, but no one i know down here knows about them. lets see what i do

 

[Duderonomy]

There’s a doc about them screening now:

https://youtu.be/kKMv0hYT4Xc

 

[Jimster]

My friend Kevin Davy has got the trumpet gig with them at the mo. He was playing in NYC (Central Park) for this weekend gone.