Comments on: FAT FREDDY’S DROP / “Roady” http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/11/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/ a conversation about black music Tue, 09 Jun 2020 01:25:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.25 By: Jonas http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/11/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2399 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 00:31:07 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/09/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2399 Excellent to find you exposing FFD for people, they are truly brilliant, and need to be known by everybody! I do what I can, and was introduced to them myself by a friend who lived in Aotearoa.

I saw them play three weeks ago, in Ireland, at a one-day festival, they played for an hour, and what sounded like 3 tunes, based on the pauses between them, but they melted everything together, I am sure they played blips of every track on the record. It was very good!

]]> By: Qawi Robinson http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/11/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2388 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:19:19 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/09/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2388 Nice list of tracks. As Mtume said, “Truly uncategorizable – It’s going to take me a while to figure this band out.”

I was sitting here listening to the mellow reggae beat of Roady, thinking of how Bob Marley cross-pollinated a New Zealand sound. Then about 3/4ths through the song out breaks a rap and the tone changes. More Raw, more Funky, more protest-song like, and sax that would make Maceo Parker smile a bit. I almost felt duped in a good way musically. Then I listened to Hope and started scratching my head. Could this be on the SAME album, let alone could this be done by the SAME group?!? Then I heard Wandering Eye and really got confused. Is this a mash up of 70’s Funk/Reggae using early 80’s instruments?

All in all, of the set I like Roady the best. For some strange reason it reminds me of the UK Soul Artist Omar (Lye-Fook).

]]> By: Stephanie Renee http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/11/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2386 Sun, 11 Jun 2006 13:46:40 +0000 http://www.kalamu.com/bol/2006/06/09/fat-freddy%e2%80%99s-drop-%e2%80%9croady%e2%80%9d/#comment-2386 As usual, you have introduced me to music that I absolutely love! First there was Beady Belle…then Corinne Bailey Rae…and now THIS! I have a good buddy from Australia who adores funky music, and I’m sure that there’s “something in the water” (since the Earth is 70% covered with it) that causes various groups from all around the globe to absorb these ethereal grooves and rhythms.

THANK YOU for once again expanding my horizons.

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