Brooklyn Funk Essentials

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Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Featuring Laco Tayfa

Now, Brooklyn Funk Essentials comes forward with a hybrid of a different nature: funk and hip-hop and reggae subdued by rhythms, melodies and chants of The East. In this album, Brooklyn Funk Essentials-in company of an embryonic Turkish band: Laço Tayfa-travels back and forth between New York and Istanbul, two ultimately different yet akin metropols. Together, they successfully explore the depths of these two musical cultures worlds apart: Brooklyn funk, gypsy funk, acid-jazz, funk-jazz, reggae, dub and beyond.

Released: July 1998 - Doublemoon

Brooklyn Funk Essentials

Creating a synthesis of funk, soul, jazz, reggae and hip-hop, Brooklyn Funk Essentials scored a big number of world-wide record sales with their first album 'Cool and Steady and Easy'.

Laco Tayfa (Laço Tayfa)

Laco Tayfa represents a new synthesis within the Turkish Roma (Gypsy) tradition. Under the leardership of clarinetist Husnu Senlendirici, Laco Tayfa brings Turkish regional folk music into dialogue with contemporary world music styles,

Turkish Gypsy Music & Oriental Funk

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