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This album is one of the greatest albums I have ever heard musically;they have a Santana mixed with the J.B.s mixed a little with Booker T and the MGS with lots and lots of Jazz sensibilities style that keeps you hooked; and the way the pace of the songs keep changing is also influential.However,putting the music aside;the lyrics are atrocious and are very unintentionally hillarious for example in the song 'Hymn to Mother Earth' which is an ode to our lovely planet they say stuff like 'Im gonna make you mine!' and 'of all the planets you are the best' which is what you might expect from a 12 year old who has just smoked a blunt and was told to write a poem for his school!But, they keep you laughing which is good for enough for me!'Find yourself another country!' is another example hehehe!

Demon Fuzz were an early 1970s horn rock band. They released one album on Dawn, Pyes' progressive subsitiary. This is that album and the CD throws in an extended play single

This is not funk in the strict sense. They are horn rock, but don't let that mislead you. They lean more towards the progressive tendancies of Ten Wheel Drive than the singles work of post-1973 Chicago or Blood Sweat and Tears after the second album,

That is evident on the first track, a long jazz blues jam which rests, aptly enough, on fuzz bass. The albums continues with a heavier version of Electric Flag's "another country."

Of all the horn bands from this era, Demon Fuzz may be the most influanced by acid rock and not soul or jazz. They have defineately have absorbed the Hendrix' intagration of all forms of African American music with hard rock.

Great album

What a great find this CD was, "Disillusioned" is worth the price alone.

This album is so heavy, a few of the youngsters around today could surely learn a few things about how real music is supposed to go down.

I only wish I could of witnessed such a band live!

Really impressive prog rock funk!

Demon Fuzz is an important piece of history ,so is this album which is the only one they ever did.

Coming from England these guys were playing prog rock (a la Genesis). Being Blackos they add their touch of trippy funk and soul. All of this with the epicness of the percussions and the magic of the Hammond B3.

demon fuzz was good they wanna lay off the whole hendrix meets funkadelic thiong since yes df was good and this cd is a collection of soul, funk, rock and reggae funkadelic was way more out there and hendrix is still on that flying ship himself still you like the whole black rock expwerience without a mothership you should check this out aliong with black merda and fugi.

The 2-fer-1 album (actually CD plus mini "33 1/2" CD comes in a nice collectable glossy Japanese slip sleeve with a bonus maxi-single inside. O.K. that said... they sound somewhat like a half noble attempt to get into a mod/psycadelic rockish Mandrill vs. Osibisa afrobeat thing. Though the album has some great stuff, they definitely chose somewhat of a strange number for an opener, but once you get past it, the group, with its ups and downs does rock out. Though they shine when they cut lose sometimes it takes a while for them to get grooving. A good example is the psychadelic afro-groovin' message number called Disillusioned Man which definitely shows how heavy the group can be with some nice nice songwriting, tight arranging, poppish Free Soul Ginger Baker afro-rock drumming and horn work that is both reminiscent of Mandril, yet at times reminds me of something off a Zappa album. Another Country is a strange take that sounds like early Chicago meets Zappa meets Osibisa... hey how's that for a mix ??? After the nice progressive opening of the toon, the organist holds down a strange gritty chord while the horn player takes a strangely Jazzy arabesque solo. Though not quite as lucid as Fela, it does work in a mod-rockish sort of way. - - Tunes often build in unexpected ways... going off it psychadelic DOORS type directions one minute, then black rock the next. The end result is definitely an engaging listening... that's for sure. - - I kinda get a kick out of the back cover. Aparently one of the members had a scar on his back, so they photographed him standing bear chested with a woolen African type mask over his face which I guess was meant to emulate... slavery... o.k.