Заводной голубоглазый фанк из Великобритании! Десяток белых музыкантов, играют четкую черную музыку. Много басов, гитарок, барабанов, клавишных и хоровых подпевок. Грув высшей пробы в половине трэков – Use Your Imagination, Little Girl, Rise and Shine, Do It Right, Feelin’ Good – задорные фанкиллеры!
“Rise and Shine!” это второй альбом коллектива, вышедший в один год с их дебютным одноименным альбомом, и расчитанный на покорение американских чартов. Увы, прорыва не случилось – сингл “Use Your Imagination” смог достичь лишь 34 места в rnb чарте. Не завоевав, популярности группа разошлась в 1977 году. В 1982м коллектив ненадолго воссоединился для нескольких концертов и выпуска третьего студийного диска (названного как и дебютный альбом, просто Kokomo).
Bluntly, Rise and Shine! stands as the finest British funk album of the 1970s. The opening “Use Your Imagination” has enough funkadelia around its edges to salve the most demanding palate, while “Little Girl” might borrow its vocal arrangements from something slick by Hall & Oates, but nobody told the instruments that. Occasionally the sublime groove does fade – “That’s Enough” is a ponderous dirge, again looking towards Hall & Oates for its impetus, and the strangely staccato ballad “Without Me” might have slipped off Bowie’s Young Americans. But the title track is insistently nasty, while “Do It Right” and “Feelin’ Good” are primal growlers in solid Sly Stone mold. With only “Rise and Shine” breaking the five minute barrier, the album does err on the side of concise caution – live, Kokomo were capable of some truly gargantuan grooves, and it would have been rewarding to catch a couple on vinyl. Kokomo hit everyone with the force of an express train. [From AMG Review by Dave Thompson]
Kokomo - Rise And Shine '1975 Back Cover Art
Исполнитель / Artist: Kokomo
Альбом / Album: Rise And Shine
Лэйбл / Label : Columbia # KC 34031
Recordered / Записано: 1975
Направление: Funk, Soul, Disco-Funk
Tracklisting / Трэклист:
1 Use Your Imagination
2 Little Girl
3 That’s Enough
4 Rise and Shine
5 Without Me 6 Do It Right 7 Angel Love
8 Happy Birthday
9 Feelin’ Good
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