KOSMO's VINYL of the Week

Slim Gailard Trio, "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)"

6/25/2021

KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in post WW2 Hipsterville USA (I suspect California) for the Slim Gailard Trio's "Cement Mixer (Put-Ti Put-Ti)", first released as a 78 RPM 10" on the Cadet label in March, 1946...

"Bulee 'Slim' Gailard appears to have been born in Alabama in 1911, although he himself claimed to be Cuban-born, and others said he was from Detroit. He became a jazz singer, songwriter, guitarist and pianist of note, specializing in a style that did not take itself too seriously.

In 1946, he also penned the "Vout-O-Reenee Dictionary", a compendium of his own hipster/jive language, Vout. Kerouac describes one of his performances in "On The Road", which is where I first learned of this track.

Slim left us, due to cancer, at the age of 80 in London, having moved to Europe some years earlier on the advice of Count Basie" KV

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Fever Ray, "When I Grow Up"

6/18/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in the Sweden of 2008 for Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up", first released (digitally) on the debut album "Fever Ray" in January 2009 on Rabid Records...

"Fever Ray is the name Karin Elisabeth Dreijer chose for her solo project, while still in another electronic band, The Knife, with her brother Olaf. I really don't know too much about her, except that she comes from Gothenburg and has been making music since 1999 (maybe earlier). Full disclosure I don't even know the album this was taken from ! I just came across the single and it has stayed with me. I'm not a big fan of music videos, but Martin de Turah's one for this really did capture my imagination." KV

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Curtis Mayfield, "Back to the World"

6/11/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are in Curtom Studios, on the North Side of Chicago, for Curtis Mayfield's "Back To The World", first released as the title track to his 4th solo LP on his own Curtom label in May 1973...

"Chicago born in 1942, Curtis Lee Mayfield got his first guitar at age 10, and it is said that, as a boy, he loved it so much he slept with it. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and social activist - he surely has to be one of the greatest musical talents the United States ever produced - he could really do it all and on this one he does - everything about it is superb !

Before Bob Marley became the international superstar he deserved to be, the most covered songwriter in Jamaica was Curtis ! Tribute Indeed. Right On, brothers and sisters, Right On !" KV

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Sugar Minott, "Oh Mr. D.C."

6/4/2021

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KOSMO's VINYL of the Week:
This week we are back at Studio One, 13 Brentford Road, Kingston, for Sugar Minott's "Oh Mr D.C.", recorded by Clement "Sir Coxone" Dodd and mixed by Scientist. First released as a 45 in 1977...

Kingston born in 1956 as Lincoln Barrington MInott, Sugar's first serious involvement with music was as a sound system selector, and he ran his own Gathering Of Youth 'sound' while still a young teenager. In 1969, he joined The African Brothers vocal trio, but by 1974 went solo at Studio One, where his recordings went on to be a massive influence on the Dancehall scene to come.

Sadly, Sugar Minott left us in 2010 aged 54, from some heart related issues." KV

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