In Heavy Rotation: Jungle Fire – Firewalker/Chalupa 7″ – Colemine

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Jungle Fire – Firewalker

As great as this April has been on the special guest front (and still more to come with Shuggie Otis this week and LA’s King next week!) there have been a few attempts at bringing in bands that simply didn’t work out. One of them was with Jungle Fire, a recently formed Afro-Latin funk outfit from here in Los Angeles. So far the band has released a couple of 45s on Colemine Records, including this one, released on Record Store Day 2013. At first I thought the band was covering Rusty Bryant’s “Fire-eater” but quickly realized that this is an original track (and a totally different fire-related activity), more of a Afro-Disco tip, that showcases some of the interesting directions the band may move towards in the future. Hopefully we’ll be able to bring them into KPFK a little later this year for what I’m sure will be a smoking live set.

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