Cymande

Cymande | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B0000008LI
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,655 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Message

2. Brothers on the Side

3. Dove

4. Bra

5. Fug

6. For Baby Woh

7. Rickshaw

8. Equitorial Forest

9. Listen

10. Getting It Back

11. Anthracite

12. Willy's Headache

13. Genevieve

14. Pon de Dungle

15. Rastafarian Folk Song

16. One More

17. Zion I

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Short-lived but legendary, Cymande is oft-compiled on funk assemblages, but this CD of their first two LPs is altogether necessary, even if the music moves away from tight beats into Rasta-folk toward the end. Cymande's reputation has grown considerably over the last twenty years. Featuring a multi-national crew with a strong Caribbean influence, the band produced a few hits in the early seventies, then disappeared. But the epochal "Brothers On the Side," and the ingeniously structured "Fug" contain a subtlety and tension lacking in all but the best bands of the era. As usual, the Collectables label's sound quality is passable, but nothing to brag about. --D. Strauss

Product Description

No Description Available
No Track Information Available
Media Type: CD
Artist: CYMANDE
Title: CYMANDE
Street Release Date: 03/12/2002
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Do yourself another favor, August 4, 2005

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bstill (chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cymande (Audio CD)

This title has poor sound quality and was not remastered.

Cymande - Renegades of Funk was nicely remastered and has 2 unreleased bonus tracks not availble here. I recently bought that record. And the hit track Bra absolutely bumps. The rest of the album flows very nicely. Just thought I would pass along the word to Cymande fans.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Do Yourself A Favor, March 12, 2004

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Professor Booty (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cymande (Audio CD)

i got this cd about ten years ago in london. they were playing it in a record shop. i bought it on the spot. never heard of them before or since, but this cd is great. luckily my copy is on sequel not collectables because a friend bought the collectables (he also was floored) and the mastering sounds like someone put a rug over the speaker. don't hold this against the band though! really great blend of funk, soul and reggae that is hard to pin down...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars classic, July 13, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cymande (Audio CD)

........So, I go to see Spike Lee's 25th Hour when it comes out in 2003. I am enjoying the film, but I, ever on the hunt for good music, hear this 70s latin thing during a club scene in Lee's joint. I read the credits, check the movie guides, and nothing. It is obviously a sample, and not listed, anyplace. Well, it drives a music man like me crazy when he wants something, but can't find it. What WAS that music?

Months and many web postings later, and finally somebody writes "oh, that's Cymande." "A band?" I ask. "Yeah." Which just shows you no matter how long you have been collecting and no matter how much you know about music, something great ALWAYS slips through your fingers.

Obviously, I am pointing and clicking on this right away. I knew I had at least a fraction of a good song on my hands--it turned out that "Bra" was the short sample in the film. (What does bra mean in spanish? I don't think this is a song about underwear.) But I had no idea of how good this band was until I played the album

This is tight, taunt, latin funk--and I empahsize the word funk. By the time Cymande emerged in 1972, Santana was already into long fussion jams. This music is nothing like that. Some of the solos are long, but only when they fit. Cymande sets a tight, funky groove that always has a compelling rhythmic edge, and mine it for all it is worth. There is absolutely no fat on this music. The playing is excellent. A lot of little insertions happen in these ecconomical little grooves, and you hear more each time you play the album.

Fantastic record. Don't be an idiot like I was. Get this on your radar, now.