Brownout - Aguilas & Cobras

Being located in Canberra we are shut off to a lot of things in this country, including weekly access to the Sydney gig magazines apart from 3D world. So when I was last in Sydney I was able to pick up a copy of Brag and to my surprise noticed that they had started to cover more hip hop & funk and soul. This lead me to the Soul Sedation column where I found out about the following group - Brownout

The Groups sophomore long player is Aguilas & Cobras released on Six Degrees Records


Brownout are an eight-piece group from Austin, Texas, creating a Latin funk sound but also traverses samba, jazz and psychedelic funk-rock. There previous album Homenaje gained them critical acclaim from international DJ's, especially their breakbeat cover of "African Battle" (see second clip below). I'm not sure where you would be able to pick up this album in Australia but if you got to the Six Degrees website you can get it on CD for half price before the end of Dec 09. I'm going to search for it on vinyl but if all fails will get the CD before Dec 09.

To hear further tracks similar to this you can try and stream live from the Soul Sedation show on Bondi FM (link for net listeners or those in Sydney can try 88.0 frequency). According to the column in Brag the show runs on Wednesday nights from 10pm to Midnight (Australian Eastern Time). A quick heads up - the website is a bit shit house and didn't seem to offer specific podcasts for each show.

Enjoy the tracks below.
Average Music Fan