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Boozing Wizards (Searching For The Stone Of Funk) 1996

by Redtenbacher's Funkestra

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Peter Jones For a first release as a group leader, this is a great listen. OK, some of it may sound a little derivative but it's almost the nature of the genre and - of course - at times it's intentional. Enjoy it for what it is - good fun funk.
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    Includes the inside booklet and a photo of Stefan with 'cornrows' and a Steinberger XL-2, ca. 1992 | on stage with saxophonist Albie Donnelly from Supercharge.
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    This is the very first album that Stefan has ever recorded under 'R.B. Funkestra' or the 'Redtenbacher's Blue Funkestra'. The year was 1996, right after he graduated from Berklee College of Music | USA and right before he moved to London | UK. One could describe this as a graduate Berklee student's 'Sturm und Drang' Funk offering to the world.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Colours Of Joni, Both Sides Now (Joni Reimagined), Glitch This, Nothing is Impossible, Big Funk Band, The Hang, Concubine Chronicles (Original Demo Recording), FONKY! (Big Funk Band remixed by Beat Fatigue), and 11 more. , and , .

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Hype Hat 05:16
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King Louis 04:28
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Love, love, love why'd you take so long to come to me, aw baby And love, love yo' love tell me where you hiding from me All the time Each time I try to find someone to take your place It was all in vain, no their lips were never quite the same, no baby When I was kissing someone new deep inside I was missing you Aw baby, you make me fall in love with you Now I don't know just what I'm gonna do Aw honey, I looked out into empty space and all I saw was your Sweet face Love, love, love you can't imagine what you did to me, aw baby And love, your love every time you smile it goes Through me all the time Day by day I'm falling more in love with you And that's no lie, cross my heart and honey I hope to die 'Cause I'm not trying to mislead ya believe me girl I really need you Aw baby, you make me fall in love with you Now I don't know just what I'm gonna do Aw honey, I looked out into empty space and all I saw was Your sweet face Aw baby, you make me fall in love with you Now I don't know just what I'm gonna do Aw honey, I looked out into empty space and all I saw was Your sweet face Love, love, love Love, love
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This is Stefan's first album, recorded all the way back in the spring of 1996 in Winthrop, just outside Boston. The band comprises a mixture of Berklee Professor and Stefan's fellow Berklee College of Music chums plus friends from Austria.

credits

released June 7, 1996

Stefan Redtenbacher - bass, bandleader, producer
Dave Limina - Hammond organ, keys
Larry Finn - drums
Neal Itzler - guitar
Junauro Landgrebe - guitar (rhythm on 4, solo | melody on 5, melody on 8)
Thomas Feurer - saxophone (alto)
Rober Friedl - saxophone (tenor)
Sebastian Grimus - flute, clarinet
Nichol Thomson - trombone
Wolfgang Haeuptli - trumpet
Dan Pratt - saxophone (bari), bass clarinet
Michaells 'Michelito' Fana - vocals
Justin Mullens - trumpet (melody on 3, solo on 8)
Herwig Maurer - programming, SFX

All songs composed, arranged and produced by Stefan Redtenbacher
(except 'Love, Love, Love' written by Bailey/Williams, vocal arrangement by Michaells Fana)
Recorded, mixed by Mike Gatzios at Third Dimension Studios, Boston MA (April | May 1996)
Mastered by Bernie 'Big B' Auer at Big Apple Studios
Graphic design by R.D. Brough
Illustration by Peter Tronolone
Photography by Guenther Standl

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Redtenbacher's Funkestra London, UK

Austrian-bred bassist and funk fiend Stefan Redtenbacher is an anomaly, anachronism and a defiant demolisher of the pigeon- hole. Currently based in London, Stefan and his band Redtenbacher’s Funkestra deliver “out-and-out spectacular funk” (Snowboy) or, as UK Bass Guitar Magazine put it, “a near perfect slice of jazz-funk from one of Europe’s great players.” ... more

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