![]() ![]() This dank collection of Maori and Polynesian disco, funk and boogie jams is a legit party in a box. How often have you really heard about New Zealand’s funk and boogie scene? Subtitled “17 Prime Soul, Funk and Disco Cuts from Aotearoa 1973 to 1983”, Heed the Call! Whakarongo, Nga Tamariki! aims to remedy that question and solve its mystery. If you don’t feel completely relaxed by the time their cover of Nick DeCaro’s ‘Under The Jamaican Moon’ comes on, you probably thrive in high anxiety environments and shouldn’t be listening anyway. ![]() It’s predominantly a collection of covers: the band take on then-contemporary hits by Tom Jobim, Boz Scaggs, Sadao Watanabe, Natalie Cole, Percy Faith and use them to conjure what is essentially the best holiday resort music ever committed to wax. The Milky Way’s lone 1979 LP Summertime Love Song is one of the pinnacles of the Japanese city pop sound – a chic, breezy style that blends mellow jazzy grooves with bossa sunshine and AOR sophistication. ![]() Frozen Reeds also happened to take the top spot on the list last year. And then there’s Roland Kayn’s A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound: 14 hours of spectacular modular synthesis so elaborate, immersive and immaculately constructed that I still haven’t made it through the entire damned set. You won’t find Geinoh Yamashirogumi’s Symphonic Suite: AKIRA on the list because as beautiful a work as it remains, quite frankly, there have been so many different versions of it floating around for years now in so many format, it feel excessive. Some, like The Necessaries’ excellent Event Horizon LP, were omitted due to my direct involvement. Some were omitted simply for space and the obvious nature of their status, others got the boot due to logistics and finicky pressing details – sorry The Other People Place. ![]() Mikey “IQ” Jones takes an in-depth look at 25 of the year’s best reissues and retrospectives, from Japanese city pop and pastoral ambience to Radiophonic dub and devotional music.īefore we dive face first into this hot sonic mess, I want to draw attention to some honorable mentions. ![]()
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