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Another long-thought-lost gem from the
archives,
was originally released in 1971 and, in the manner of
and
, is a total groove-fest loaded to the gills with raucous horn blowing, ferocious percussion (once again,
take a bow), and song lengths over ten minutes. By this point,
could do no wrong when it came to recording; Afro-beat dissenters will claim that there is a trance-inducing similarity to much of
's '70s recorded output, that the grooves aren't enough to make the songs distinctive enough on their own. That's true of some of his later recordings (like in the mid- to late '80s), but at this point he was still breathing fire and the band was in top form. Perhaps the distinguishing factors of records like
and some of
's other '70s releases are that as much as he liked to ride a groove, he also liked to disrupt it, twist it and turn it, reshape it, only to bring it back to its original shape. There was less of that later in his career. ~ John Dougan