PUCHO AND THE LATIN SOUL BROTHERS - Super Freak [BLACK FRIDAY 2022] - LP - 180g Vinyl [NOV 25]

LP - 180g Black Vinyl. Limited Edition Black Friday Reissue. First pressing in twenty years. Only 1,000 copies available in this edition. Housed in Heavywight Tip-On Jacket with Obi-Strip. Includes download code.

  * RSD Black Friday titles will be available to buy in-store from 9am on Friday 25th November 2022 and online from 8am Saturday 26th November 2022.

The opening track on 1972's Super Freak is a brilliant, nearly side-long medley of three tracks from Curtis Mayfield's Superfly: the title track, "Pusherman," and, of course, "Freddie's Dead." Heavy, druggy, and psychedelic, with thick organ and wah-wah guitars, the medley sounds more like the psychedelic soul of War or even Funkadelic than the sparkling Latin jazz of Pucho's earlier albums.

The rest of Super Freak is a little lighter in tone, but this is still the most groove-oriented and least overtly Latin jazz-oriented of this group's albums, trafficking instead in shuffling grooves like "Oak Hurst's Art" and vibes-led ballads like "Judy's Moods" and "One More Day." Latin jazz purists may balk, but this later became a classic of the '90s acid jazz movement, which some sources date to the U.K. hip-hop group Galliano pinching a sample from this album's version of "Freddie's Dead" for the 1989 single "Frederick Lies Still." - AllMusic

This is its first pressing in twenty years and comes to record stores first as part of RSD Black Friday.

Tracklist:

A1. Medley: Superfly / Pusherman / Freddie's Dead (Written By Curtis Mayfield) [15:38]
A2. Judy's Moods (Written By Ernie Adams) [4:52]

B1. Oak Hurst Art (Written By Ray Rivera) [3:20]
B2. S'Cusa S'Cusa (Why) (Written By Norman Mapp) [4:35]
B3. Don't Mind The Tears (Written By Ray Rivera) [3:30]
B4. One More Day (Written By D. Williams / Jannice White) [4:16]