Name: The Aura Will Prevail
Brand: George Duke

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

0214944MSW

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "0214944MSW"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4029759149446

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "4029759149446"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

0212858MSW

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "0212858MSW"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

black

4029759128588

{"blocks": [{"data": {"text": "4029759128588"}, "type": "paragraph"}]}

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

George Duke

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

MPS head Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer discovered 20 year old George Duke by chance during a concert in San Francisco in 1966. A long partnership developed out of this unexpected meeting, topped off by a series of albums that Duke recorded for MPS during his Zappa phase. 

This 1975 recording is a reflection in concentrated quartet form of how far Duke had moved away from being, in his own view, “too conservative and serious a jazz musician”, and evolved into an inventive and humorous “master of fusion”. With Santana drummer Leon “Ndugu” Chancler, bassist Alphonso “Slim” Johnson, and the Brasilian percussion sorcerer Airto Moreira, Duke designs a stunningly cinematic sound scenario that also points to him as one of the pioneers of the synthesizer. He paints a fantastic morning atmosphere in Dawn; in Floop the Loop Duke conjures animated, funky tone poems. 

There is a change of scene as Duke takes up the role of soulful singer on the smooth ballads For Love and Fools. His onetime collaboration with the Mothers of Invention rubs off on Duke’s adaptations of Echnidna’s Arf and Uncle Remus, and a touch of samba is added to the relaxed tropical magic of Malibu.

The Aura Will Prevail

Music GB