Here’s the final track off the two new Big Boss Man 45s then – the A-side to Trans-Pacific Express – entitled Double Groovy. And if sixties, mod, bongo and Hammond-obsessed Big Boss Man are calling a track ‘Double Groovy’, you can bet your ass that groove is canyon deep. This one opens with a squalling psych-rock guitar vamp before a bongo-rich drum break vaguely
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BIG BOSS MAN: Double Groovy (Vinyl 7″)
BIG BOSS MAN: Trans-Pacific Express (Vinyl 7″)
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Big Boss Man surprise again with the digital release of one side of their second new vinyl 7″ this year – the track Trans-Pacific Express. Rhythmically funky again like the cuts on previous single Juju Funk b/w The Return Of Baron Samedi, this one (despite the name) seems to head due east a few thousand miles from the Caribbean and go heavy on sounds that recall the psych-funk of
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BIG BOSS MAN: Juju Funk (Vinyl 7″)
Some people think they can jive Big Boss Man but you know they must be crazy because BBM are all about the voodoo on the first of two forthcoming 45s. And if you’re an MB regular you’ll know the B-side of the first 45 is entitled Baron Samedi whereas the just leaked A-side is entitled Juju Funk. As you might expect from the title (and as Baron Samedi showed), the band
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BIG BOSS MAN: Return Of Baron Samedi
How’s this for a triple return? Big Boss Man are back, with a heavy bongo n organ-laced track called Return Of Baron Samedi marking a return to things funky after a couple of LPs which have been pretty much exclusively sixties guitar fuzz and R&B-focussed. And that’s only the beginning of the good news for Return Of Baron Samedi is but the B-side to Juju Funk which the monkey has been given to understand will be teased in a
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BIG BOSS MAN: Changing Faces (2015)
Rating: Did someone say Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake? Well who wouldn’t if they looked in the mirror expecting to see themself i.e. ‘Robert Neville,’ but the image kept morphing from Vincent Price to Charlton Heston to Will Smith? Come again? It’s Changing Faces – the latest single from retro-apocalyptic concept LP Last Man On Earth by funky UK mod-squad Big Boss Man of course
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BIG BOSS MAN: Crimson 6Ts (2014)
Blow Up’s finest, Big Boss Man, cast around their recent excellent fourth LP The Last Man On Earth for more single material and settle on the sixties Soho basement club vibes of…Crimson 6Ts. Packed with the most Georgie Fame-esque of organ riffs and solos, a horn section (where did that come from?) and ‘chank-chank’ guitar, this soul-jazz groover possesses ample retro-mod
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BIG BOSS MAN: Last Man On Earth (album) (2014)
Rating: The UK’s mod-liest funk-soul-jazz-rnb-psych-fuzz outfit, Big Boss Man, are back with their fourth LP shortly and have decided to go with the whole concept-album – er – concept. In this case, the apocalyptic ‘last man on earth’ idea. It’s probably why they’ve run with the title The Last Man On Earth. Well – the sixties was a decade where all that hedonism was balanced by the very
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BIG BOSS MAN: Last Man On Earth (single)(2014)
(Album review HERE)
60s psych-beat-funk combo Big Boss Man return on 1 September to re-assert their authority over all things modly with fourth full-length LP, Last Man On Earth. In the meantime you’ll just have to, “Say hello, say hel-lo,” (not like Leslie Phillips) to the second single and title track, Last Man On Earth. “He doesn’t know that he’s not alone”, sings Dusty-esque guest vocalist Princess Freesia over
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BIG BOSS MAN: Aardvark (2014) Free download
Mod-funk/psych-fuzz sixties throwbacks Big Boss Man will be back with a full album this year and by way of a taster they’ve released the swinging Blue Note stomp of Aardvark to burrow its way into your consciousness. It’s an insistent little hammond-driven crittur featuring some very un-fuzz guitar from Trev ‘Call me Grant Green’ Harding and a surprisingly brief bongo solo from Nasser ‘Who’s
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THE BONGOLIAN: Bongos For Beatniks (2011)
If The Incredible Bongo Band were British and had formed in the late sixties instead of the early seventies…they still wouldn’t have sounded like this. You’d be closer if you tried to imagine the love child of Roy Budd’s Get Carter theme and the tripped-out psychedelia of sixties French nutter Pierre Henri. That’s not to say that The Bongolian himself, Nasser Bouzida, is any the less funky
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