https://open.spotify.com/album/4XfjbetSzQqOXXE0NVdOjl

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-moving-finger/1663546857?i=1663546858

The Amazing Dorothy Ashby in a slight extended version for her beautiful creation "The Moving Finger".

Dedicated to my newborn Aviv "Ginger".

Dorothy Ashby - The Moving Finger (Ginger Dream Edit)

As ever this Armadillo music was entirely improvised live, on the spot, for the moment, the mood, the people and the vibe.

This is a 10 minute section from a live jam by Armadillo from 1st May 2025 at the Feathers. It’s the second part of a 23 minute exploration (1st half called The Load - Pure Half), itself part of an hour and a half of improvisation. The full 23 minute version is also here on soundcloud and is obviously what the piece is meant to be. Long and hypnotic, funky and spacey guitars, with plenty of bluesy exploration and chilled vocals.

Don’t expect a 3 minute pop song! …but music to put on and leave on... and be drawn in by … the groove will just keep on rolling… and the tune will just keep on wandering wherever it takes us…

AF15 Recorded in one take: guitars via Olympus LS-P5 mic (digital dictaphone), the rest D.I.-ed into an Olympus LS-P1 digital dictaphone.
Main vocals and lead guitar fully live with other guitar layers, bass, backing vocals and horns laid down live using a Boss RC-600 looper. Drums by Lumbeats FD.

May it get you the fonk on...

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A Zanzibar Story by NÝOKO

A groove-heavy ritual of rhythm, brass and soul – where the desert breathes and the dust dances.
Snakes in the Sand is not just music. It’s movement. It’s tension. It’s trance.
Midtempo funk collides with tribal drums, vintage horns, and hypnotic Swahili chants – all flowing through raw analog textures.

Born under Zanzibar’s sun, shaped by heat, rhythm, and shadow.
Each track slithers through sound – low, bold, dangerous.
The groove never shouts – it coils, strikes, and pulls you in.

Let the rhythm bite.

Dust & Drum

stortion 4 107 bpm sep 19 take 1

Shadow Choir by smokethatdank

Kenya Special : Volume Two is available to pre order on Soundway Records now. 

Direct: http://smarturl.it/KenyaSpecial2Direct
Digital: http://smarturl.it/KenyaSpecial2

Lulus Band - I Can Feel It

Poldoore - But I Do

Artist: Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno
Album: Death Of The Revolution
Release date: 2008
Label: Tru Thoughts

Death of The Revolution

Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Westbound Train [United Kingdom, 2008]

Mo'Horizons - Yes Baby Yes

Hawa - Dance

Gabo Brown & Orchestre Poly-Rythmo - It's a Vanity

Upcoming Gigs:
Thursday 6th November 25 - Feathers
Armadillo plays regular nights at the Feather Star (Red Lion) Wirksworth every 1st Thursday of the month.

This is trip-funk - 100% improvised funky bluesy alternative rock jams with bags of soul and feel... festivals, parties, happenings... from cool event soundtrack to full on dance funk outs ...one off music for one off events - in the moment - led by the vibe, the people and the grooooove

Don’t expect 3 minute pop songs …but music to put on and leave on... and be drawn in by … the groove will just keep on rolling… and the tunes will just keep on wandering wherever they take us…

All our music is entirely improvised live, groove, vocals, and all... on the spot, for the moment, the mood, the people and the vibe.

Recorded in one take: guitars via NT1, drums on an Olympus digital dictaphone, the rest D.I.-ed.
Drums, main vocals and lead guitar fully live with other guitar layers, bass, backing vocals and horns laid down live using an EHX dual looper.

May it get you the fonk on...

FUNK RADIO: You can also shuffle our 'likes' for the longest banging early 70's funk playlist of all time -  1000+ quality funky tunes in there  -  ;-)

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