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Title: Unfunky Woo
Review: As a fan of Bernie Worrell's work with P-Funk, Bill Laswell projects and Talking Heads, I was interested in this Bernie Worrell solo project. Lots of the folks you'd expect participated: Laswell is co-producer and all over the place, Fred Wesley, Buckethead, Umar Bin Hassan. But frankly it didn't do much for me. Much of it seems to be Bernie's attempt at classical/"serious" music. Which is fine by me, but I did not find it compelling in that genre either. For tracks as long as these (4 of 7 are over 6 minutes, two of those are respectively 9:48 and 14:43), you'd better have more thematic development or one heck of a good vamp going. Neither is the case here. I'll give it two stars for ambition, and concede that it's better to aim high and miss than aim low and hit the target.
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