| Details / Tracklist: |
1. A MAN
2. THERE ARE TROUBLES
3. TURN ME ON
4. SINCE I LOST YOUR LOVE
5. DOG S DELIGHT
6. THE SECRET
7. YOUNG PEOPLE
8. LAY YOUR HEAD
9. SALMANCA
10. STORM OF 77
11. HELP BUILD BUFFALO
12. WHAT IT TAKES TO LIVE
13. TO LOVE |
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| Number of discs: |
1 |
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| Description: | Drum-machine soul, funk, disco and boogie from Buffalo, NY. Rare 7" singles
and previously unreleased tracks presented as a complete album.
In the early 70s, Jessie Key and Sylvester Cleary - two passionate idealists living in Buffalo, New York -
formed a close friendship based on a mutual mission to better their city. The Attica State Prison Riot of
1971 was a burning memory, and the Arthur vs. Nyquist lawsuit - brought against the City of Buffalo for
creating and maintaining a racially segregated school system - was on the docket. Key was once a
cotton-laborer in Mississippi, who journeyed north for school where he met his kindred spirit, Cleary. The
two struck up an intense friendship, bought a drum machine and recorded their first 45, "A Man," a
paean to self-actualization and Black American empowerment, which they custom pressed
and issued privately.
Dozens of recordings followed over a decade long span, issued on local labels and warehoused on
cassette tapes. Perennial optimists, Key & Cleary tried any - perhaps every! - path they could demarcate
in hopes of forwarding their agenda of self-effected, positive change. They formed Buffalo??s first
minority-owned construction company, opened a health food restaurant in a building previously
occupied by a fast food chain, and even concocted a candy bar called "The Buffalo Treat," which they
manufactured and sold locally. Eventually they started their own label, Buffalo??s Reflection. On it they
released their masterpiece, "What It Takes To Live," a sought-after disco and Northern Soul classic,
which previously appeared on Now-Again?s Soul Cal anthology.
This album collates the breadth of Key & Cleary??s recordings from 1970 until the mid 1980s, both with
songs issued on rare 7" singles and previously unreleased. It presents a conjoined musical vision and
tells the story of a duo years ahead of their time, both musically and culturally. Love Is The Way was their
ethos - their goal was to enlighten humanity and to bend history in a more
loving direction through communion. - |
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| Manufacturer No.: |
NA5271LP |
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