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Alladin's Funk (a.k.a. Alladin's Groove) -LIVE
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THIS IS THE LIVE (in the basement!) ORIGINAL, from September 1985!! (LIVE Tracks from Cosmic Funk/OSMOSIS are RARE!!)
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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Genre
R&B • Funk
Charts
Peak #235
Peak in subgenre #17
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1985
Uploaded
June 16, 2009
Track Files
MP3
MP3 4.4 MB • 128 kbps • 4:45
Story behind the song
"ALLADIN'S FUNK" was 'composed' at the very same time as this recording. It was a Saturday afternoon, in early September 1985, downstairs in my Basement Front Room. That's ME (Lawrence Wise) on the Casio Synth and the insane Vocals, my brother NED WISE (my C.F.M. ALL-STARS partner and leader of TOTAL GROOVE CONNECTION band And Show) on the Drums, and our friend (and fellow TGC band member) TERRY CHISLEY on the Roto-toms. Nothing elaborate; Only ONE Mic--for my vocals. All the drums and percussion were done 'air-check'. Hey, that room was only about 14-ft. x 12-ft.! OH YEA: recorded directly into a BOOM-BOX!!! Of course, over 5 years later, "Alladin's Groove" was re-done by Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra, studio style, and using more or less the very same arrangements--but NO Vocals! (That's the version on "SSFM*".) As for the IDEA to the song: "ALLADIN" from Disney is NOT the basis. This is the original Arabian Knights version (with a mean Djinn!). Finally, the VOICE at the end: That was Terry Chisley. We still had the tape running to get all the feedback on the recording, and idiot boy said, "Go The Fuck Home!!". So, we 'CRASHED' a final beat, and called it a song! If I was to EVER perform LIVE (instead of just this little 'rehearsal'), and had a 'like-minded band' back-in-the-day, I think 'The Cosmic Funk Orchestra' would've sounded just like that. WOW; September 1985. I just turned 22 a couple weeks earlier, and....well!
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