http://bernieworrell.band.../elevation

Thank you for the alert. Not the Bernie I want but good on him for continuing new things.

HardcoreJollies said:

Thank you for the alert. Not the Bernie I want but good on him for continuing new things.

I was hoping that he would kick it into overdrive at some point.....

This is beautiful! Thank you for sharing. Unsurprisingly, Ooh Child is lovely.

I love it. I never figured Worrell to go this direction. The best $10 I ever spent.

I went to add this on my Spotify and they have the EXPLICIT lable on each track. lol

Someone with Worrell needs to have them change that.

Lovely.

Y'all know that Bernie is classically trained, right?

Thanks for sharing this gem with us all. A 2013 publication--I feel so bad when I end up sleeping on a new recording by a musician of Bernie Worrell's caliber. I've seen a couple of documentaries with him in lately, one featuring his own career, and of course P-Funk footage and that Talking Heads film. I definitely need to catch up on his recordings.

Cool. Thanks.

V10LETBLUES said:

I love it. I never figured Worrell to go this direction. The best $10 I ever spent.

It was released 2 years ago.

Since he made friends with Bill Laswell in the late 80's, Worrell has released several albums that are far removed from the P-Funk sound and somewhat experimental (check for example the sublime Pieces of Woo, The Other Side from 1993). He also explored jazz with Improvisczario in 2007 and was part of countless side projects or group efforts released under various names, lots of them with Laswell but with others as well, covering a wide range of musical genres.

He's probably the most creative of the whole P-Funk crew: it would have been easy for him to satisfiy the hardcore and always hungry P-funk fans, do nothing but funk and cash the money, the way all the others did, but while continuing recording and touring funk jams all throughout, he's shown a hunger to explore numerous other musical genres and expand his musical vocabulary far beyond the scope of funk.