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The Perfect Circle - 1977 - The Perfect Circle
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The Perfect Circle - 1977 - The Perfect Circle


Independent rare funk lp from 1977 produced by George Semper.
Perfect Circle were another Paul Mack discovery and George Semper once again was caught choosing whether he should work with one band over another. He turned down Mandrill to finish up work on the now collectible Perfect Circle album that blended funk, soul and disco influences.

Tracks :
A1 Dip Stick (3:33)
A2 For Your Funkification (3:58)
A3 This Love Is Mine (4:35)
A4 Jungle Disco (4:04)
A5 Spread The News (3:51)

B1 The Perfect Circle (4:11)
B2 The Hands Of Time (6:15)
B3 I'll Always Love You (Girl) (5:48)
B4 Peaceful Funk (4:33)

Credits :
Bass [Electric Fender] - Ed Lyons
Clavinet, Organ [Fender Rhodes, Hammond B3], Piano, String Ensemble - George Semper
Congas, Percussion [Latin] - Jimmy Smith
Drums, Toms [Tenor], Cabasa - Ed James
Flugelhorn, Trumpet - Flemmon Green Jr.
Guitar - Clyde Dixon
Guitar [Lead] - Carl Walker
Lead Vocals - Clyde Dixon , Jimmy Smith
Mixed By - George Semper , Joel Soifer
Percussion - Carl Walker , Clyde Dixon , Dave Parnell , Flemmon Green Jr.
Producer - George Semper
Saxophone [Tenor, Alto], Flute [Tenor] - Dave Parnell

Backing Vocals - Carl Walker, Dave Parnell, Ed James, Flemmon Green Jr.

A lost jazz funk classic! Perfect Circle are an obscure little combo from Oakland -- and they've got a great jazzy groove with lots of sweet keyboards, heavy basslines, and choppy horn parts -- a sound that's equally as great as some of the better-known Bay Area funk acts of the time -- especially those at Fantasy Records! 60s Hammond hero George Semper is a member of the group -- but he's playing a fair bit more 70s-styled keyboards on the set -- giving it a warm electric vibe that's totally great! There's some real funky killers here that are filled with breaks, plus a few mellower soul tracks that have some really great vocals.
~Dusty Groove America

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Category: Soul/Funk/Ethnic | Views: 887 | Added by: Opa-Loka | Rating: 0.0/0 |
Total comments: 9
02 June 2008
1. taco
thanks for rare album!!!!

03 June 2008
2. Raphael Jackson (Raphy)
Gladly appreciating this....

Please MORE SOUL!!! biggrin


04 June 2008
3. nikos1109
Still try to buy the vinyl. Excellent choice and post. So happy you haven't forget soul, Opa. The site is getting better and better. Take care my friend.

06 June 2008
4. Ty Tell (beats2go00)
thx alot! biggrin

07 June 2008
5. colocho
http://2colochos.blogspot.com/

18 June 2008
6. Keiron O'Donoughue (kizza)
Tremendous post! Heard good things about this LP, so looking forward to checkin' it out!

30 June 2008
7. Trakbuv
First got into her around '75 when she brought out that splendid version of 'Wanna be where you are', and have a couple of ripped albums of hers since. But not this one !! Looking forward to the treat - many thanks for taking the trouble to share.

08 July 2008
8. Groovy Emmanuel
An almost perfect post! And the circle remains unbroken! Thank you very much for the share guys, keep on the good work!

12 November 2008
9. zulemaman
man, this is rare! it's actually been a while since I slapped this on the turntable, gonna dig it out while downloading. nice one!


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