Review: American producer, sound engineer, and composer Art Stewart spent many years working for Motown (producing the likes of Marvin Gaye) before he founded Eboni Band in 1981. It put out only one album, which has been out of print and hard to find ever since. It features an incredible array of talent from Motown and Ivory Coast's Eboni Records including James Brown collaborator Fred Wesley and take sin disco, jazz, funk, world and afro influences. 'Sing A Happy Song (Shake It On Down)' opens with low slung, atmospheric funk, then 'Fasso' sinks into an ethno-jazz sound which is spine tinglingly spiritual and 'Desire' brings a disco party.
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