Album Review: Conspiracy from Rich Willey's Boptism Funk Band
Album: Conspiracy Artist: Rich Willey's Boptism Funk Band Label: Wise Cat Records Website: www.boptism.com/conspiracy Big Band music with a tinge of R&B blended into the mixture, Rich Willey's Boptism Funk Band makes jolly good music on their new CD Conspiracy . Track after track is layered in throbbing drumbeats, rotating guitar chords, and a variety of traipsing adventures paved by the medley of horns, which give the compositions multifaceted traits. Bobby Floyd's moaning Hammond B3 organ drives squiggling lines across "Clip Clop Mogul," which alternate with the bevy of horns scrolling a cluster of wiggling motions in a random fashion. The jazz funk flapping produced by the musicians elevate the listener to that jolly place where the band wants their audiene to be. Keeping up the merriment is the bopping toots of the horns piping "Adrenaline Rush," fringed in a tooling of twizzling guitar riffs from Dave Stryker. The sunny tone of the h...