{"id":1016,"date":"2010-06-03T07:36:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2010-06-03T07:36:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T13:36:52","slug":"review-the-sweet-talks-the-kusum-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/06\/03\/review-the-sweet-talks-the-kusum-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Sweet Talks &#8211; The Kusum Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This formerly lost-to-the-ages 1974 release is now ready for fans\/addicts to pull into their world music-collecting realm. The eleven-strong conglomerate that was the Sweet Talks hailed from Tema, Ghana and this short but scintillating album boils with their youthful highlife-meets-Afrobeat enthusiasm. Then again, they do call it <em>The Kusum Beat<\/em> and anyone with ears will instantly recognize a slight difference in their haughty vocals, chattering guitars and hard-to-beat horn arrangements. The drummer lays heavily into the hi-hat, keeping the rhythm on high boil throughout and there is a palpable jazziness to their trumpet solos that will please even the most discriminating seeker. The repeating musical statements, mostly based around a cheap-sounding organ, almost become swirling and psychedelic at some points and the rhythmic structures advance before your ears and suck you in with a charming yet unrelenting flow. Nice plus. (Soundway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundwayrecords.com\">www.soundwayrecords.com<\/a>) <strong>Jeff Monk<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This formerly lost-to-the-ages 1974 release is now ready for fans\/addicts to pull into their world music-collecting realm. The eleven-strong conglomerate that was the Sweet Talks hailed from Tema, Ghana and this short but scintillating album boils with their youthful highlife-meets-Afrobeat enthusiasm. Then again, they do call it The Kusum Beat and anyone with ears will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}