They Call Us Wild [Red Vinyl]

The Wild Magnolias – They Call Us Wild [Red Vinyl]

Coming on the heels of Jackpot Records' vinyl reissue of The

Wild Magnolias' S/T debut LP, we proudly announce the band’s

follow-up record, They Call Us Wild. Championed by critic

Robert Christgau as creating “the most boisterous recorded

party I know,” the band released this funk masterpiece in 1975,

but now with a psychedelic streak running deeply throughout it.

While the first album (which was also the first commercially

released record by a Mardi Gras Indian group) declared

"Smoke Your Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right)", They Call Us Wild is

a different type of "elevated" sonic celebration.

Vocals echo and drip; saxophones and keyboards swing from

each other’s arms, and the omnipresent multi-layered

percussion, which The Wild Magnolias were known for,

showcase why they continue to be one of the most sampled

bands of all time (they have been sampled by everyone from

Nas to Public Enemy to Jungle Brothers).

With producer Philippe Rault at the helm once again, he

continued to capture the dense magic within the band, but on

They Call Us Wild, they are taking a darker, more haunted

approach with their music. The smokey interplay on songs like

“Injuns, Here We Come”, with its jazzy piano/bass meltdown

(courtesy of Erving Charles Jr. & Wilson Turbinton of the

legendary New Orleans funk band The Gaturs), solidified them

as a band rather than capturing a moment...even though the

celebration in the studio is still going just as strong. The band

also takes itself to new sonic territory, for instance, slowing

things down with “Jumalaka Boom Boom,” with its sexy groove

and spoken-word storytelling sections that rival the best of P-Funk.

Genre: Funk, New Orleans Funk.