*FRIDAY OLDIES* MonoMono – The Dawn Of Awareness (Reissue) (2011)
01. Plain Fighting (Your Life Is What You Make It)
02. Ipade Aladun
03. Get Yourself Together
04. Awareness Is Wot You Need
05. Make Them Realise (Everybody’s Gotta Be Free)
06. Tire Loma Da Nigbehin
Soundway Records and Tummy Touch are proud to present ‘The Dawn Of Awareness’ the second album by Joni Haastrup’s band MonoMono. Amid the OPEC oil embargo, Watergate and IRA bombs, the sound of MonoMono’s follow-up record, 1974′s ‘The Dawn Of Awareness’, took on the bluesrock grooves of Santana and Hugh Masekela but with their own unique Yoruban flavor. A deeply spiritual record, ‘The Dawn Of Awareness’ was Haastrup’s reaction to what was going on in the world around him. One hears echoes of the Allman Brothers’ ‘Revival’ on MonoMono’s ‘Awareness is What You Need’ and after listening to ‘Plain Fighting’ you could easily imagine the band sharing the stage with the Doobie Brothers at an East Side San Jose street festival.
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