{"id":25838,"date":"2023-08-20T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25838"},"modified":"2023-08-17T15:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T19:46:40","slug":"album-review-floki-sessions-boots-in-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/20\/album-review-floki-sessions-boots-in-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Fl\u00f3ki Sessions \u2013 Boots in Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-25839\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/floki_sessions_boots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/floki_sessions_boots.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/floki_sessions_boots-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/floki_sessions_boots-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Here\u2019s a quick dispatch. You may be familiar with Color Red, the label headed by Eddie Robers, guitarist in the New Mastersounds. If you know about him and\/or his group, you know that what\u2019s on offer musically is always funk, always melodic, always deep-groove, always compelling. So if I told you that he has embarked on a side project called Fl\u00f3ki Sessions, you\u2019d likely be intrigued. If I then told you (as I am now doing) that his collaborators I nthis project include George Porter Jr on bass and vocals, you\u2019d be even more keen ot hear it.<\/p>\n<p>And hear it you should. Recorded in Iceland, <i>Boots in Place<\/i> is a ten-track set featring Robers and Porter plus keyboarisst Robert Walter and drummer Nikki Glaspie. The set also features guest vocalists and horn players on several tracks. It\u2019s similar in character to New Mastersounds, but certainly different enough that you\u2019d never mistake it for Roberts\u2019 main band. The tunes are the kind that will get you head nodding, your hips shakin\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The sound is somewhere between \u201870s funk a la Hot Chocolate and current-day funky jazz fusion. The playing is more about ensemble work \u2013 hypnotic vibes and whatnot \u2013 than showoffy instrumental work. But with heavyweights like these, you can count on top-notch playing as well. My own tastes in this style run toward instrumental rather than vocal-fronted work, so the simmering \u201cBlack Apple\u201d is my favorite. But \u201cEveryone &amp; Everything\u201d is propulsive soul-funk (with Lamar Williams Jr on vocals) that wouldn\u2019t be out of place on any best-of-genre collection. Listen and pick your fave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a quick dispatch. You may be familiar with Color Red, the label headed by Eddie Robers, guitarist in the New Mastersounds. If you know about him and\/or his group, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25839,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,49,65,69],"tags":[751,5219],"class_list":["post-25838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-funk","category-new-release","category-review","category-soul","tag-eddie-roberts","tag-floki-sessions","cat-31-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25840,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25838\/revisions\/25840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}