The Afro Soul Prophecy is an atypical musical project, out of time and trends, as evidenced by a several years gestation that has finally ended with the release of \u201cHeat in the City\u201d, an album that includes all the songs ever recorded, some of which have already been published in 2017 on 7\u201d (SC716, \u201cRed Light District \/ The Game of Love\u201d \u2013 SC717, \u201cDaddy\u2019s Groove \/ Let Me Be your Lover\u201d) and 10\u201d records (SCEB002, with three different versions of \u201cThe Devil Made Me Do It\u201d). The Afro Soul Prophecy was born thanks to the initiative of Luciano Cantone, co-founder of Schema Records, here also spiritual leader and producer of the project.<\/p>\n
\u201cHeat in the City\u201d is an almost completely instrumental album that finds its strength in its simplicity and balance between parts. The songs\u2019 composer is Alex Puddu, well-known especially for his \u201cGolden Age of Danish Pornography\u201d disco-sex-funk triptych, surrounded by a long series of international artists who gave musical life to his ideas: Abdissa \u201cMamba\u201d Assefa (Ethiopia, drums and percussion), Antti L\u00f6tj\u00f6nen (Finland, double bass), Georgios Kontrafouris (Greece, Wurlitzer and Hammond), Timo Lassy (Finland, saxophone), Gendrickson \u201cPucci\u201d Mena (Cuba, trumpet), Massimo Martellotta (Italy, guitar) and Morten Gr\u00f8nvad (Denmark, vibraphone).<\/p>\n
The Afro Soul Prophecy\u2019s sound and groove are exquisitely black, but so rich of shades that require in-depth listening to be fully assimilated and to understand the overall range of \u201cHeat in the City\u201d, a record that draws inspiration from The Meters, War and Roy Ayers\u2019 downbeat funk, but also indulges in afrobeat (The Devil Made Me Do It), Latin (Let Me Be Your Lover, The Game of Love, Daddy\u2019s Groove) and disco contaminations (Everybody\u2019s Going Uptown, Fire in Acapulco, Mean Street), while \u201cSummer of \u201975\u201d and \u201cThe Crowd Pleaser\u201d evoke pure urban blaxploitation scenarios. All these influences are fully rooted in this album, making it almost mystical and visionary, as if the aforementioned music genres scenarios could materialize in front of the listener\u2019s eyes. \u201cHeat in the City\u201d owes most of its qualities to the fundamental contribution of Abdissa Assefa on percussion and Antti L\u00f6tj\u00f6nen on double bass \u2013 a particular and atypical instrument in a context like this, as well as to Pietro Ciancaglini\u2019s arrangements.<\/p>\n
The overall result, wide-ranging and full of hidden details, is the ultimate consequence of the multi-ethnic nature of this project, which involved musicians from all over the world; once again, the language of music has contributed to unite different cultures and to erase distances in the creation of \u201cHeat in the City\u201d, an album that needs multiple listenings to be discovered in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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