Distorted Soul Reviews

Nadir - Distorted Soul 2.0
(Funk/Rock/Brain Food For the Neo/Organic Soul Generation)

This album is coming from a point of view that is totally out of step with what is happening today in the world of music.

It puts it in your face, right from the start, the first voice that you hear on the CD is that of Fannie Lou Hamer, followed by more spoken word from the Civil Rights era in a song called “Prelude To Revolution”. Then it rips into a mind blowing FUNK/ROCK groove that would have Lenny Kravitz peeing in his pants if he were to ever hear it, entitled “Slave” with the opening lyric that goes like this “I don’t want to feel the pain anymore, and I don’t wanna feel the whip across my spine”…

Song #3 called “Daddy’s Cane” is a great song in tribute to Black fathers and how hard they work. When is the last time we heard a song with that theme? Especially done to a serious Funk/Rock groove, with stellar vocals to boot, which even quotes “Cosmic Slop” in it’s lyrics??

And that’s how it starts…

So who does Nadir remind me of????

Living Colour?, Lenny Kravitz with talent?, Prince on steroids?, George Clinton (back when he used to care?), Led Zeppelin with a melanin injection (after a beating from the police?), The Last Poets (backed up by the Band of Gypsy's?), Bo Diddley freed of his shackles?, The Miles Davis Band (with Oscar Brown Jr. as their lead singer?), Malcolm X with a guitar?

I dunno, I just know this CD is badd...

Oh but I don’t want to take you down a certain path……This album isn’t wholly on a “political/social” tip.

Song #4 (“All Over You”) is a badd azz slow jam; Song #5 is a hypnotic stank azz funk groove called “Sanctified”.

And so on and so fourth…Hell this CD even gets into a jazz groove before it's all over!

I could write about this album all night long if I had enough space...I have been listening to it for most of the year and now that I have started to finally write about it, I damn near can't stop....lol

This is the type of album that P-Funk used to make. This is the type of album that Sly Stone used to make. It DEMANDS that you pay attention. This is the type of album that made us dig Living Colour in the first place. Hell this is the kind of album the Temptations used to make. This is the type of album that some of these Neo/Organic Soul people need to listen to to actually provide them with some REAL SOUL. It's the kind of album that makes you think that Black music, culture and people truly have a future...

It’s got everything that Funkateers/Black Hippies need plus the Wheaties and milk to go with it….

It’s totally out of step with today’s music scene…

It’s STONE COLD FUNK, it makes you DANCE, it ROCKS your world, it’s got GREAT LYRICS, it's got POWERHOUSE SOUL SINGING, it's got GREAT MUSCIANSHIP, it makes you THINK about the world and it makes you SMILE.

This isn't a CD in search of a market, it's a CD that demands the marketplace find it.

We need this album, we need it REAL bad...

EVERY SONG ON THIS CD IS GREAT! (Hell, even white people would like it if they heard it)

So what is it in a word??? (it’s a modern day iteration of the album “STAND”)

Ok, I’ll stop now. Just go and buy it,
Save Your Soul before it’s too late….

Bob Davis
www.soul-patrol.com
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September 27, 2005

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