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1. Funny Funk
2. Love
3. Once Over, The
4. Feel
5. Cora Jobege
6. Old Slippers
7. Theme From The Opera "Tzina"
8. Yana Aminah
9. Rashid
10. Statement
11. Slo-Boy
12. A Turma Da Latinha
13. Don't Get Too Wild Child
14. The Turkina Suite For Two Pianos: Iv.
15. Outro
16. Musique De Table, Part Iii: Oboe Sonata In G Minor, Twv 41:g6: I. Largo
18. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
20. In my garden at night, Op. 38, No. 1
21. Pain Relief - Relaxing Acoustic Guitar Music
22. Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214
23. 24 Preludes, Op. 28: No. 23 In F Major, Moderato
28. Elapsed (Chilling Mix)
30. By The Beautiful Blue Danube
33. Il Caffè Della Peppina
42. Hello Young Lovers
69. That's All Right
72. Shake And Take
5. String Quartet No. 6 In E-Flat Major, Op. 76, Hob. III:80: I. Allegretto
9. Coimbra
7. Sur L'route D'sainghin
15. La Joven Mancornadora
17. Willow Weep For Me
34. Al Masad, Chapter 111
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This album with the strange psychedelic sci-fi cover draws a tighter circle around Duke's fusion language. The keyboard master ventures deep into his synthesizer laboratory. Their textures become a more essential component of his pieces, attaining orchestral dimensions, as evidenced in the opener, Funny Funk, with it's smacking, squishing tongue-in-cheek dialogue between the synths. A virtuoso layering of the keyboards is also central to Cora Joberge, and on Rashid, Duke's electronic orchestra explodes over the stormy drums of Leon "Ndugu" Chancler. Duke shows himself to be a singer with a soulful sound. Shortly before this recording he had shelved his trombone so that he could communicate more directly with the audience, as can be heard in the hymnal, dreamlike title piece. The guest list of players make for an especially exciting concoction. No less than Duke's playing companion Frank Zappa, under the cryptic pseudonym Obdewl'l X, performs some adventuresome guitar passages on Love and Old Slippers. On the California-sunshine pop samba, Yana Aminah, we have a surprise visit by Brazilian Flora Purim, wife of percussionist Airto Moreira, who opens up his bag of tricks on The Once Over, and plays on three more tracks.
