The Ohio Players - Ecstasy (CD)

Funky As Soulful Funk Can Be

By Andre  Mar 12, 2006

Pros: Organic And Rhythmic From Every End With Wonderful Vocal Harmonizing

Cons: Minimally produced but that may not be such as bad thing.

'Ecstacy' is an Ohio Players rare treasure from their Junie Morrison era in 1973.As with all of their records at the time the sound is very basic and stripped down-bass,drums and tons of organ and guitar.At this point Junie's organ's ...are very gospelish and Sugarfoot's guitar is played in a very rough wah-wah tone.Every cut is filled with this flavor,especially "Food Stamps Y'all" is filled with classic early 70's funk additude.However on "You and Me" and "Spinning" the Ohio Players throw down classic sounds straight from classic Chicago and Philly soul.The country soul ballad of "Silly Billy" followes in the same area.It proves funk bands could be true to the genre that spawned them.But that doesn't stop the title track,the rhyhtmic "Sleep Walk"-pretty much the whole album from being funk in the raw.A treat for any lover of classic funk in it's most basic form. Read more Less