{"id":4355,"date":"2013-11-03T13:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2013-11-03T13:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T18:41:31","slug":"zap-pow-soul-revival-bw-nine-years-of-funky16corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=4355","title":{"rendered":"Zap Pow – Soul Revival B\/W Nine Years of Funky16Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download Zap Pow – Soul Revival (45)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Before we get rolling today\/this week, I should take a moment to note that today marks the ninth anniversary of the Funky16Corners Blog<\/strong> (as well as the entrance into our tenth year!).<\/p>\n

While I don’t want to go into any ‘state of the blog’ nonsense, I did want to take a sec to thank everyone that comes around to partake in the musical goodness.<\/p>\n

Blogs come and go, and traffic is not what it once was.<\/p>\n

Some of that has to do with the series of problems\/moves that beset Funky16Corners over the years (especially the domain change) which threw a lot of people off the scent as it were, but there’s no denying that music blogging is not as popular as it once was, for both the fans and the proprietors.<\/p>\n

The interwebs are a huge, fickle beast, and the intellectual property\/copyright wars of the last few years have scared off a lot of bloggers. While blogs as a construct are often short-lived (I’d love to see the percentage of blogs that are abandoned in the first six months), DMCA attacks (some of them valid, many of them not) have chilled the world of music blogging considerably.<\/p>\n

That said, I’m not going anywhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I (obviously) dig doing Funky16Corners, and the Funky16Corners Radio Show, and (though opportunities have been slim to none of late) getting out and spinning records for the peeps.<\/p>\n

As long as I have something to say, and sounds to share, you can depend on Funky16Corners.<\/p>\n

So thanks for stopping by.<\/p>\n

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I thought we might get the week off to a hot start with something tasty from the island of Jamaica.<\/p>\n

It would be safe to say that I am not \u2013 by and large \u2013 a consumer of reissues, with most of my music-relates dollars devoted to the pursuit and capture of the OG.<\/p>\n

Economically it doesn\u2019t make a tremendous amount of sense, but that\u2019s just how I\u2019m wired.<\/p>\n

However, every once in a while someone turns me on to a comp where the originals in question are (at least for me) especially hard to get my mitts on, and the music is incredibly hot.<\/p>\n

Such was the case with the \u2018Funky Kingston\u2019<\/strong> comp that came out about ten years ago.<\/p>\n

You know I dig reggae, and funk, and whenever someone gets their musical chocolate in my peanut butter, i.e. reggae funk<\/em>, I am, by virtue of the calculus, exponentially more down.<\/p>\n

This, and it\u2019s sequel volume, \u2018Soul Power: Funky Kingston 2\u2019<\/strong> were both a heavy part of the rotation, and \u2013 as is often the case \u2013 added a number of records to my want list.<\/p>\n

Some of these weren\u2019t terribly hard to track down, some were EXTREMELY hard to find, but they were more than worth the trouble.<\/p>\n

You see one example of the latter category before you today.<\/p>\n

The first time I heard \u2018Soul Revival\u2019 by Zap Pow<\/strong>, the pleasure\/acquisition center of my brain was activated and I set out to find myself a copy of this gem for my record box.<\/p>\n

The thing is, it took YEARS.<\/p>\n

If you follow things around here you\u2019ve heard the stories of records that pop up frequently and get bid out of my reach every time.<\/p>\n

\u2018Soul Revival\u2019 was not one of those.<\/p>\n

Truth be told, it wasn\u2019t until last year that my searches yielded any results at all, and (ironically) when they did, I ended up with a copy of the 45 AND the LP both within weeks of each other (funny how that works, isn\u2019t it??<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Here we have a tight, funky band, combining intertwined guitar and bass lines, hard hitting drums and a hot horn section in an almost James Brown<\/strong>-y way (with some Kool and the Gang<\/strong> thrown in), with precious little (at least on this record) to let you know that the whole thing originated in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s got a real \u201cget up and dance\u201d kick to it (thanks to that Harry J<\/strong> production).<\/p>\n

Their 1976 \u2018Revolution\u2019 LP features more \u2018straight\u2019 reggae, including a nice version of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes<\/strong> \u2018If You Don\u2019t Know Me By Now\u2019 (featuring their vocalist at the time,none other than Beres Hammond<\/strong>) as well as touches of rock and Afrobeat.<\/p>\n

The group had a huge hit in the UK and Jamaica in 1972 with \u2018This Is Reggae Music\u2019.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig the track as much as I do, and I\u2019ll see you on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Also, the brand new Funky16Corners ‘Keep Calm and Stay Funky’ stickers have arrived!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The stickers are 4″ x 3″ and printed on high quality, glossy stock.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They are $2.00 each, with free shipping in the US ($2.00 per order shipping outside of the US).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click here to go to the ordering page.<\/strong><\/a>
\nAlso, make sure that you check out the links below to the Be The Match Foundation and POAC (click on the logos for more info).
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PS Head over to Iron Leg too.<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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