Ralph Lundsten And The Andromeda All Stars – Discophrenia [LP] (1978, Harvest)

It's probably the cover that misled to think that this would be a sub-par Moog disco LP, filled with synthetic instrumental versions of "Shake Your Groove Thing", etc. Even though everything else heard from Ralph Lundsten has been adequate-to-genius avant-electronic compositions, just pegged this as a disco cash-in. Maybe it is. But it falls more on the "funk" side of disco -the kind of late 70s sanitary funk that served as the backdrop to acts like Grace Jones, early rap, or the Eno/Byrne sound. Funk that went to modern Africa on an Anthropology graduate student fact-finding mission, but found that bouncing between recording studios in Nairobi was good enough. Funk that has a PhD at the mixing board. Funk by white guys with afros. Lundsten pins those steady, repetitive bass-led grooves under mildly entertaining spacey electronic improvisations with jazz fusion indicators. A little like Miles Davis at his 70s grooviest, toned way down into something much more commercially palatable. You know -disco funk for horny, lovesick robots. So... the cover is accurate after all. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Harvest – 7C 062-35537 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: Sweden 

Released: 1978 

Style: Disco 

 

Tracklist:

A1 Andromedian Nights 2:46 

A2 Discophrenia 7:10 

A3 Luna Lolita 3:20 

A4 Cat Nymphony 3:56 

B1 Robot Amoroso 5:50 

B2 Spring Fever 6:10 

B3 The Celestial Sphinx 4:07 

 

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