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Demon Fuzz – “Afreaka!” LP
An album that is a super-league treat for any purveyor of lost sounds and treasures of times past. Demon Fuzz – named in reference to their treatment received, as Commonwealth immigrants, at the hands of the Metropolitan police force – were able to effortlessly blend together psychedelic soul, dub-heavy funk, progressive rock, Afro-jazz and acid rock. Proper musicians, with an attitude (the LP’s sleeve kind of says it all). Released in 1970, their first album went straight into obscurity for no other reason, you have to presume, than because of the overt racism of 1970s Britain, and this is despite them being regular in-house performers at Ronni Scott’s jazz/blues club.