Conjure with Kip Hanrahan.

Conjure. Mumbo jumbo. Hoodoo. Lashings of sexual intercourse.

Upfront. The albums featuring these tunes are (sometimes) available. You are supposed to buy them, not download them, because they are made by a genius, and the musicians deserve to be paid.

I’m posting these to induce you to go and buy all the Conjure and Kip Hanrahan albums available with the money you earned in your job, or with your drug deals and/ or gaggle of whores or stole from your parents.

Kip Hanrahan is one of the most important artists working in any medium today. His genre happens to be music.

Allen Touissaint, Olu Dara, David Murray, Leo Nocentelli, Eddie Harris, Lester Bowie, Michael Cain, Don Pullen, Robbie Ameen, Steve Swallow and Bobby Womack are on some of these tunes. Ritchie Flores, Fernando Saunders, Milton Cardona too. The Conjure albums are texts for the poet Ishmael Reed. The Kip Hanrahan albums are for describing thoughts, desires and fears you didn’t think anyone else ever had, and most of them are to do with sexual intercourse. This music is sui generis, but these happen to stink like an army of baboons on a humid day in a shut-down lard plant. All are produced (or, rather, directed) by Kip Hanrahan.

This is guitar-led bluesy r’n'b styled funk music. I think you’ll like it. If you like a blog called theheaviestfunkintheworld it’s pretty sure you’ll dig it.