Don’t worry, it’s not a religious album. Instead, this LP by Young-Holt (Eldee Young and Redd Holt, former members of the “In-Crowd” incarnation of the Ramsey Lewis Trio), is a totally out-to-lunch, jazz-funk-rock-soul conceptual masterpiece. At the same time, it’s a complete mess, a truly schizophrenic work of art, verging to dissolve into heated warfare between the disparate musical forces at play. The stand-out sample cut here is “Wah Wah Man,” a dirty slice of funk that I’d first heard on Atlantic’s “What It Is” Rare Grooves Comp a few years back. Yet there are other treasures here, from jazzy covers of “I’ll Be There” and “Something” to grim, edge-of-nowhere fuzz like “Queen Of The Nile” and “Blood In The Streets.” The album as a whole is fairly unclassifiable, which, in my mind, is one of the highest compliments music can receive.
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