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Galaxy Faruq (for Faruq Z. Bey)

from Griots by Gerald Cleaver

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“Galaxy Faruq is for the late, great saxophonist and composer Faruq Z. Bey. It has the feeling of what I recall Griot Galaxy sounded like when I first heard them as a teenager: modes strange to my ear, stacked multiple meters, funkiness.

I remember sitting in senior year music history class reading the Detroit Metro-Times about Faruq Z. Bey and Griot Galaxy and immediately knew I had to hear them. Once I saw them, the blackness, power, hipness, funkiness, strangeness, sophistication all hit me hard. It was out and it made sense. One favorite remembrance I have of Faruq is me walking on Cass Ave. after school and spotting Faruq pushing his motorcycle. It was trippy seeing him without the face paint they all used. It was as if the stage Faruq was the “real” Faruq. But this Faruq pushing his motorcycle was a badass." - Gerald Cleaver

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from Griots, released June 4, 2021

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