
For the last six weeks, I've spent my drive time cloistered within the soothing cocoon of Fela Kuti's Expensive Shit/He Miss Road. Accordingly, few contemporary albums have battered through that hermetically sealed, parallel universe where I smoke acres of trees at the Kalakata Republic circa 1975 while inventing a plethora of dance moves, including the Roger Rabbit, the Cabbage Patch and the Wop. One of the rare exceptions has been Karl Hector and the Malcouns' Sahara Swing, released earlier this month on Stones Throw subsidiary, Now-Again Records. Information about Hector is scarce, with [...]