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Pyramid Groove (Electric Egypt) -album
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The full-album version of that wild November 1988 Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra cassette-single.
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An Experimental Project (Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra), and a Loose Funky Jammer (OSMOSIS). 2 separate sides, the very same dude.
Hello. Lawrence Wise And The Cosmic Funk Orchestra/OSMOSIS is actually a One-Man Home Recording Project that has been my 'stress relief' (ha ha!), since about MAY, 1981. I'm from that first wave of DIY Cassette-Tapers ('analog'--and PROUD OF IT!). Hell, the majority of my material between '81 and '99 was done on the earliest large-model Casio Synthesizers (the MT-68, MT-400-V and MT-200), with a Yamaha thrown into the mix (on occasion). Recently, I've started posting my material on the web (after transfering it from cassette-tape to digital disc, and then to MP3---a very hard process, considering the AGE of some of the tapes). It was in these past 2 1/2 years on the web that I discovered that, despite the ridicule you're going to get, there IS an Audience for your music--no matter how different it is. I've been telling some of my friends and peers for years to NEVER get rid of ANY of their recordings, no matter how 'crappy' you were (of think you were), because having a 'Back Catalog' is a damn good thing. You MAY have been sitting on some GEMS, and not even know it. And, when I discovered that a 21-year-old jam I posted on MySpace recently ROCKED a lot of folks as far away as SCOTLAND and AFRICA (!), I felt pumped. It means that this was a 'dream' that came thru in the end.
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Genre
R&B Funk
Author
Lawrence Wise
Rights
1988, 1989, 2007
Uploaded
April 28, 2007
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MP3 5.0 MB 128 kbps 5:24
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Same as the single, just the full version. Check out that weird percussion jam at the beginning--THAT is an 'add-on', which is also on the original cassette-album version. The TRUE Song begins with the second set of 'Hand-Claps'. To those who really wish to know, "Pyramid Groove (Electric Egypt)" is the SECOND of the two 'Egyptian/Space-Funk' tracks I recorded (and literally the youngest: over 3 years after "E-Gyp-Shuns"). It is also the ONLY one to be an official cassette-single. As for the 'story' in the song, here's where it really gets SCI-FI: "The SPYNX" is a Nightclub!!! And King Tut was a total Playa ("Had a whole lotta Money an' Shit!" and "He fancied girls who wore their skirts a little too tight!!"). And, when Tut died, "The Spynx" went dark ("The Show was over; The Jukebox wouldn't run!"). "E-Gyp-Shuns" was psyched-out, but "Pyramid Groove" is just plain psycho (and, if it WAS listed as such, would definately BE an OSMOSIS Track).
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