Song:Earthly Powers
Album:Totally Wired and Illicit Grooves: Acid Jazz-The Birth of a Scene 1987-1990
A Man Called Adam (AMCA) were a big part in establishing England's Acid Jazz scene in the late 80s. Earthly Powers was an early single in 1989. Sally Rodgers, Steve Jones and Paul Daley started a jazz band in 1986. They started hanging around with DJ and Acid Jazz Records founder Gilles Peterson. Acid Jazz was electronic dance music with jazz elements that was popular in British clubs in the 90s. AMCA started when Peterson was developing the Acid Jazz sound. Earthly Powers was one of two singles AMCA released on Peterson's Acid Jazz label. Featured musicians are Luke Tunney on trumpet and flugelhorn and Gary Barnacle on sax and flute. Both guys are session musicians. Daley and Jones play drums and percussion. Sally plays keyboards and sings. The success of the single encouraged Sally and Jones to continue AMCA though Daley left to form Leftfield. After releasing the 1991 album The Apple on Big Life Records, AMCA started their own label Other Records and became more producers than recording artists. You can get Earthly Powers on this comp from Beat Goes Public. Though AMCA released the album Farmarama in 2019, mostly they produce Other artists like Sensory Productions. They have also recorded as Beachflea and Discrete Machines. Here's a video for Earthly Powers by A Man Called Adam.
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