Keith LeBlanc's 'Freakatorium'
Read everything about Keith LeBlanc's latest studio album 'Freakatorium'. It's his first album since 'Time Traveller' and guess who accompany him...
Keith LeBlanc released his new album Freakatorium in March 1999. There were plans for a 12" preliminary to the album, but unfortunately that release was canceled.
Freakatorium contains 13 tracks, including an instrumental version of Play what you want, a track from the Blanc Records sampler Audium capsule 1 (1996). The track on that album featured singer Sussan Deyhim, but the track on KLB's first studio album since Time Traveller (1992', is instrumental. Needless to say that Keith LeBlanc recorded 4 cd's for AMG with loads of drumbeats to sample in the meantime.
Most of the tracks were written by Keith LeBlanc & his Tackhead team mate Skip McDonald. Tackhead bass player Doug Wimbish also has a part in the song writing, as well as bass player Michael Mondesir. And of course, the mixing was done by Keith and Adrian Sherwood, to complete the cooperation of the awesome Tackhead 4 (LeBlanc, McDonald, Sherwood & Wimbish) once more.
There actually is a track on the album that could easily be a Tackhead track: Freaktime gives the album its title & is featured twice, also in a A. Sherwood Remix. It's the most powerful, hard hitting track (play it loud!) of Freakatorium, which is an incredibly versatile album. The bluesy New Frontier could have been on a Little Axe album (not surprising, since Skip McDonald wrote the largest part of it), whereas a track like Uncut Funk is funky as hell (thank you Doug). Overall the album has a jazzy, funky atmosphere.
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