Forty Seven Times Its Own Weight - Cumulo Nimbus (1975) {2006 remaster}

Cumulo Nimbus is the first and only album by Forty Seven Times Its Own Weight. Released on a small record label called Fable, this is from a remaster by Jerry Tubb the label came out with in 2006.

This has been a true collectors item for many years changing hands for silly money (I've been outbid on ebay more times than I care to remember)mainly on the strength of the magnicently titled furiously funky breakbeat and clavinet driven"March of the Goober Woobers".
As you can imagine I was delighted to see it's just been reissued on cd so I snapped one up at Dusty Groove and here it is in its magnificent entirety-all killer no filler!

Funky and free-thinking fusion from the Texas scene of the mid 70s – a great indie album by a group who travelled in the same territory as the soul combo Starcrost! Although American, the work here has some great qualities that remind us of some of the best European fusion from the same time – a sense of soaring, stretching energy – and one that never resorts to too much jamming to carry across its message, and which juxtaposes heavier rhythms with some gentler tunes that really allow the horn parts some wonderful moments! Instrumentation include soprano sax, tenor, trumpet, electric and acoustic piano, and a fair bit of percussion too – all recorded with a great sense of warmth, almost in the mode of some of the best Fantasy Records 70s sessions!

1. Weedhopper (7:55)
2. March Of The Goober Woobers (5:35)
3. 47 Tears (3:45)
4. Jig (6:30)
5. Halyards (5:35)
6. Cumulo Nimbus (5:45)

Mel Winters-trumpet, synthesizer and electric piano
Spencer Starnes-acoustic bass and Fender bass
John Treanor-drums, percussion
Dude Skiles-electric and acoustic piano
Paul Ostermayer-soprano and tenor sax, bass clarinet

"Special thanks to Quincy Jarmon for cungas"


Produced by Mike Mordecai and Patrick Rockhill
Recorded by Last Minute Productions at Odyssey Sound Ltd., Austin, Texas, August 1975
Engineers: John Ingle and Larson Lundahl
Digital remastering: Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio Inc., Austin, Texas, July 2006

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