Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band
1 July, CD Club

The concert at the CD Club also put its bet on dance rhythms, achieving it with an entirely different approach – Anthony Joseph & The Spasm Band played succulent, organic funk, the band leader, among others also an acknowledged poet, writer and lecturer, has titled the genre voodoo punk. With his incredible charisma, Joseph invigorated the listeners, employing his coarse vocal and wisecracks about band members, otherwise a rather cosmopolitan British ensemble (descending from Cuba to Slovakia), to stimulate them to dance. The icing on the cake was the Doric jazz solos by sax player Colin Webster, in conjunction with the upbeat percussion section occasionally bringing the music in the domain of Miles Davis’ psychedelic funk featured in Agharta or Pangaea. The lyrics displayed an adept combination of sober social engagement and purely light-hearted lasciviousness.

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