Black Children Sledge Funk Band - 1978 - Black Children

Black Children Sledge Funk Band - 

1978

Black Children

01. Be What You Are

02. I'm A Living Man

03. Smiling Girl

04. I Know You Know What I Know

05. Imagination

06. Doing It If You Can

Bass Guitar – Ricky Hardnar Black

Drums, Tambourine – Ben C. Black

Lead Guitar, Organ, Strings – Danny Black

Lead Vocals, Congas – Moore M. Black

A really heady album with a nicely trippy vibe – almost as if some of the spirit of Kingston had seeped into a more psychedelic West African setting – with a really wild, unique album as the result! There's some great slow-stepping rhythms on the set, very heavy on bass – and the vocals of singers Danny Black and Moore Black are often recorded with a bit of echo that brings out all these cool qualities – and which, with the bass, almost make the whole thing feel like a more laidback take on territory explored a few years earlier by Cymande! The set's also got some lean keyboards sewing the rhythms together, but never getting in the way of the darkness of the grooves