Psychedelic soul

Infobox Music genre
name =Psychedelic soul
color =white
bgcolor =crimson
stylistic_origins =Psychedelic rock
Soul music
Funk
R&B
Rock 'n' roll
cultural_origins =Mid 1960s, Britain and United States
instruments =Electric guitar (usually with guitar effects such as fuzz, phaser, flanger, reverb etc.) • Bass guitar - Drums • Electronic organ • vocals • studio sound effects (e.g. recordings played backwards) • horns
popularity = Some famous Funk-soul-or rock musical artists have commercial success Fact|date=October 2008
derivatives =Disco, Funk (later)
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Psychedelic soul is a concept used to categorize music that features elements of psychedelic rock and soul/funk music. This kind of music thrived during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Psychedelic soul is often connected to artists such as Sly & the Family Stone and Funkadelic though the former's 1970s output is also often described simply as funk and the latter's music is often called funk-rock. However, they both took clear influences from psychedelic rock. Others, most notably The Temptations and their producer Norman Whitfield, War, The Undisputed Truth, and The Fifth Dimension, followed the path laid out by the work of Sly Stone and his band. Psychedelic soul led the way for a harder, less subdued sound to permeate through black music, leading the way for the mainstream funk music of the early 1970s and later, disco.

An important band in this regard is Funkadelic, led by George Clinton. Funkadelic mixed the soul and funk of the late 1960s and early 1970s with extended distorted guitar solos and psychedelic sound effects. Further, they coupled this sound with surreal imagery and stage antics, especially on early albums such as "Funkadelic" (1970), "Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow" (1970), and "Maggot Brain" (1971).

Minnie Riperton and the Rotary Connection's cover of "Respect" is also an example of psychedelic soul.

ome Psychedelic soul artists

*The Chi-Lites
*Funkadelic
*Curtis Mayfield
*Parliament
*Sly & the Family Stone
*The Temptations
*Arthur Brown
*The Chambers Brothers
*Earth, Wind & Fire
*Jimi Hendrix
*The Isley Brothers
*Rotary Connection
*Edwin Starr
*Norman Whitfield
*Stevie Wonder
*The Friends of Distinction
*War
*Shuggie Otis
*The Undisputed Truth

References

External links

* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:12959 Psychedelic soul on] Allmusic.com