Power Clown [Original recording reissued]

Fila Brazillia | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 26, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: 23 Records UK
• ASIN: B0000636BB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #827,859 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Bovine Funk

2. The New Cannonball

3. Here Comes Pissy Willy

4. Throwing Down a Shape

5. Bumpkin Riots

6. President Chimp Toe

7. Firelanes

8. It Loved to Happen

9. Little Hands Rouge

10. Tunstall and California Haddock

11. Feathery Legs

12. A Wince of Sumo

13. The Speewah

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars their best effort, March 11, 2004

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Tophe07 (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Clown (Audio CD)

I'm a huge Fila fan, and this is easily their best CD (although Luck be a Weirdo is a close second) in my opinion. Its the most ecclectic blend of Jazz, Funk, Rock, Trip Hop, Ambient, and Electronic you could ever want. Highly recommend this and everything else by them except for that god damn "Jump Leads" which was a huge let down.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brazilia me nuts, March 13, 2000

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mark powellski (london) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Clown (Audio CD)

if animals had an access to the book "funkin up hip hop" then this is what they would make. 13 solid tunes of slap me up bass, phat riffs and stonking drum beats and a sense of humour make Power Clown one of fila's greatest creations. An essential for anyones music collection, I just dont understand why 99% of the worlds population havent heard of fila. Buy it, buy all the albums their well worth. EVERY album gives you something different but their all fundamentalist chillin albums! check it out!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fila Brazillia innovate the album concept, March 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Power Clown (Audio CD)

In my own humble music-lover opinion, this is Fila Brazillia's third classic album. Although all of their albums are amazing, "Old Codes/New Chaos," "Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight," and now, "Power Clown," are musical achievements that equally stand well on their own, each achieving a unique and original vision. Part of this success I believe is do to their different approach to these three as opposed to their approach to their other three albums. This approach involves a continuous mixing from one track to the next, which gives the album an overall flow and coherence. In addition, this approach seems indicative of a focused and fevered musical genius in which Cobby and McSherry lock themselves in a studio, and emerge a few months later with a labor of love. Whatever the case, there is an overall harmony and appeal to the music that enters the ears, moving through one great landscape of ideas and sounds. Again, like all of their music, this album is not instantly catchy, it takes multiple listens or a very attentive gaze to begin to open up to it. Anyways, "Power Clown" begins with the clunky funk of "Bovine Funk," an upbeat and fun track. "The New Canonball" is the next piece, and is a brilliant electro-soul-funk groover; it's motivated by a jazzy keyboard, a lounging bassline, a "talking" synth-line, and raggae-esque vocals. Fantastic. Then Fila Brazillia take us into the symphonic opening of "Here Comes Pissy Willy" which slams into a great yo-yoing bassline, and rising ambience. Exploring funk, soul, jazz, and ambience to their fullest, Fila Brazillia eventually land us onto the breakbeat shuffles of "Feathery Legs." "Feathery Legs" jumps into a serious house groove fit for an outdoor party at sunrise. A wispy and bright guitar threads about the columns of bass and drums, lifting the listener's eyes and ears to the sky, as a grooving bassline moves from high to low, pushing everything straight ahead. Finally we come to "The Speewah," a space-funk beauty with a falling and funky bassline, and new wavey textures. Breaking into a nice groove, an electro-voice moves high in the ether, singing "the speeeewaah! the speeee-eee-waaaa-aaah, the speeewah!," evoking a glimpse of a 70's funk-soul utopia coming on the electronic age. An absolutely brilliant album that gets better everytime. I've tested this one out on the long drive between Los Angeles and San Francisco countless times. I think its safe to say that "Power Clown" has uncommon properties.