In the form of our „Louisiana Boppin” tune we’d like to present you variations on archaic dance music. The music from adolescent times of phonography, when pop music was in amusement service, not business. Thus, the tune is meant to evoke a spirit either of smoky pubs in French Quarter of black New Orleans and libertine Louisiana or the great wave of Swing from the Thirties. Our sampling sources are, among others, Gene Krupa, Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys, Modern Jazz Quartet, or even Nat “King” Cole. Each of them plays brilliantly to the accompaniment of Przasnik’s drums, with some additional hip-hop breaks, supported by Mr. Krime with his funky piano and tight cuts.

„Vessel Marriners”, on the other hand, is a strory of singing Hungarian sailors from the times when the word “jazz” was already prohibited behind the Iron Curtain. We try to entangle here a bit, to stir up and to change the direction of the swinging boat. Then we set sails for open waters and enrich this peculiar choir (containing drunken deck head, mate and boatswain) with spirited afro-beat. We add some Rhodes with latin piano to this, and since then the melody won’t stop, even if our boat was swallowed by a whale.

This Side - "Vessel Mariners"
Other Side - "Louisiana Boppin" feat. DJ Krime

Funky Mamas and Papas
FMAP 005
(limited edition)