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If you like your psych-funk heavy and have been paying attention over the last decade and more, you’ll have clocked Swiss outfit Kind & Kinky Zoo who’ve been maintaining a tight line in monster grooves with added flute fireworks. As far as releases used to go, they once were pretty much knights of the occasional table but of late, it seems, the monkey’s not the only one who
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Swamp
KIND & KINKY ZOO: Soif, Chameau, Pinot b/w Eau Chaude (VOODOOCUTS remix) (Vinyl 7″)
Rating: Sounding none the worse for having undertaken a recent, crazy-ass, Japanese mini-tour, Switzerland’s Kind & Kinky Zoo turn once again to what they do best – providing discerning punters with monster psych-soul business. A-side Soif, Chameau, Pinot for example, will give you the shivers emerging, as it does, from fuzzy retro-synth-bass pulses. It then
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KIND & KINKY ZOO feat. RICKEY CALLOWAY: Hot Love (Vinyl 7″)
Good news as psych-funk outfit, Kind & Kinky Zoo finally get to release their brand new 45 Hot Love (test pressings of which first hove into view back in March!) featuring soul legend Rickey Calloway. A veteran of the funk-soul scene like Lee Fields and with a career that stretches back about the same length of time, Calloway also, like the now sadly-departed Charles Bradley, began his career
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Sakura Chan b/w Seabass (Vinyl 7″)
Another single from Kind & Kinky Zoo so soon after the last one? Does anyone else sense an album in the offing? This time it’s Sakura Chan b/w Seabass. The tonally lighter former floats (or more accurately flauts) off through funky psychedelic late sixties pastures characterised by Rhodes piano and gnarly vintage keyboard sounds, dry funky drums, a middle eight vocal refrain and, of course
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Seven Noisettes b/w Poulpe Fiction (Vinyl 7″)
Swiss outfit Kind & Kinky Zoo return with a new vinyl 7″ packed full of nutty goodness and juicy instrumental antics in the form of Seven Noisettes b/w Poulpe Fiction. If you caught 2017’s long-awaited LP Released! you’ll know that while this lot are on the funky spectrum, they feel entirely unconstrained by genre boundaries and at any given moment are liable to veer off at jazz or
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Released! (2017)
Rating: Who would have thought in the same month that the band with the best name in contemporary funk release an album, the band with the weirdest name in contemporary funk would release an album too? Or that they would both be good. The latter are none other than Switzerland’s Kind & Kinky Zoo and sticking with the weird naming thing, they’ve decided to release
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Wonder Zebra (2016)
Kind & Kinky Zoo have still got a weird name and new single Wonder Zebra might sound like the new project from Nathan Barley but blow me if it isn’t some sort of crazy-ass, fuzz-heavy, flute-funk antics! What’s needed to balance this is – hmm, let me see – a blaxploitation-esque remix of V.L.A.M. by Lack Of Afro – perfect for cruising through 1970s Berkeley, San Francisco. Yes, that
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KIND & KINKY ZOO: Party Chez Le Marquis/ Kinky Regards – 2010
Weird name; straight up funk attack. Mocambo signings Kind & Kinky Zoo set out to prove it’s not just quality chocolate, pricey watches and massive anonymous bank accounts that you get in Switzerland. The A-side is all about the party and (obviously – because this is Switzerland) it’s not just any old party. No! It’s a party round the Marquis’s of course and what a funky old bastard he is. Party Chez The Marquis is a full on Hammond/ flute attack but Kinky Regards on the flip is arguably better
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