Final Solution Brotherman cd

cd
2008/1975
new
Movie investors paired up a funk band that had been hitting Chicago clubs since the early 60s but struggling to get further with a similarly bubbling-under local songwriter for a blaxploitation soundtrack. It afforded the band (as records are a lot cheaper to make than movies) unprecedented access to high tech recording equipment & studio time. All songwriter Carl Wolfolk knew about the movie was it's tagline: 'the pusher who became a preacher'. The movie script never got finished & the investors soon started fighting, but the album has been sitting happily in a closet ever since. Sweet & sundappled falsetto harmonies, genuninely sophisticated arrangements, polished & charming overuse of cymbal crashes. Unusual sound too: seems like half the mix was run through a low-volume flange pedal. Apparently the band had no idea their name was a nazi joke waiting to happen. Excellent cover art is a contemporary drawing, but no less engrossing for it. Tracklisting: Brotherman, Never Coming Back Again, Girl In My Life, I Don't Care, We Can Work It Out, To See You Again, Gotta Get Through To You, I'm Ready For Love, One Day, Where There's A Will, Theme From Brother Man, No Place To Run.