Kava Kava - Freedom
Cat No: DELEC CD 061
Release Date: 14th April 1997
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- Freedom (Radio Edit) (3:52)
- This (Radio Edit) (3:50)
- Touchy Feelie (Instrumental) (5:34)
- Freedom (9 Invisibles Mix) (5:44)
- Freedom (Long Version) (5:42)
All tracks produced by Dave Creffield / Markus Butler / Kava Kava.
Original photoart by Debby Noble.
"Freedom" by Jimi Hendrix. "This" and "Touchy Feelie" by Kava Kava. Lyrics by Fulgoni.
New album "Supalube" out now! (Delec CD 060)
After five years hanging around Huddersfield with occasional forays into the wider world, Kava Kava seem to be getting their heads together. One of the first laws of being in a band is that you should never ever cover a Jimi Hendrix song (after all you can't improve on perfection), but this cheeky five-piece have done just that. Their excellent new single Freedom is superb, a top-notch slice of ass-kicking turbo funk that is a universe away from their earlier rather dreary efforts.
This is due in no small part to the fact that they've spent most of the last five years on the road. It paid off and live, Kava Kava are something to reckon with. - T.H.
Huddersfield's prog funksters Kava Kava do justice to Hendrix's classic plea to a nagging girlfriend, matching it to a 'Fools Gold' shuffling dancebeat, the result not dissimilar to a spaced-out Jamiroquai, though Kava's singer Pat Fulgoni has a lot more soul. The backbeat to 'Freedom' is jazzed up on the instrumental 'Touchy Feelie', and Nine Invisibles provide a techno mix. Cool.
The Huddersfield band have done something no band has done before - covered Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic-strewn Freedom.
But it's moved well on from the shrieking guitar to include throbbing funk and trip-hop loops.
The sax blast eventually gives way to a full brass backing - and gives it a hefty push towards club credibility.
This was a long time coming. Stuff from the Leeds outfit that know how to jazz it up with the best of them. This is a cover of a Jimi Hendrix song, funked right out with Pat's great vocal style. This man has one heck of a voice, and with a band of equal musical ability, you have one hell of a band.
(Reviewed by Suede).
Comes with what appears to be a normal run of the mill chocolate bar. So we eat. We take the chunks, pop them into our mouths and chew away. Our mouths go numb. Our stomachs begin to turn like washing machines caught in a twister. Then we read the label: "Allow one chunk at a time to dissolve slowly in the mouth. DO NOT CHEW. Do not operate heavy machinery." Kava Kava are going to get precisely nowhere with this dodgy, dancey Hendrix song but, hey, they have managed to poison a top 10 pop band. Cool.
Neil: "Are we gonna start tripping now? It just takes like those local anaesthetic sprays."
Mat (reading the label): "This is pretty strong stuff, actually. That's a great combination of effects: mild confusion and an aphrodisiac. You'd try and get off with anything."
Melody Maker: Neil, you're a very prettry boy aren't you?
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