Combining the global experimentalism of Krautrock with Afrobeatand jazz, and perfectly blending them into funk, the music of Karl Hector &The Malcouns is almost an oasis, where endless possibilities of universal tonescome together. After the years of Poets Of Rhythm and Whitefield Brothers,guitarist and producer JJ Whitefield founded the Karl Hector & The Malcounsin 2007 with drummer Zdenko Curulija, to be a band that always surprises theaudience. After their first album Sahara Swing, which was built with manyinfluences from across the African diaspora, the band has expanded its musicalscope with their second album Unstraight Ahead in which the West African soundsof Ghana and Mali meet the East African sounds. With this album, they were, in asense, paying homage to the 1970’s Krautrock legendsBe sure not to miss thismusical feast offering a rich mixture of the late 1960’s independent funkspirit and Afrobeat.