Summer Close-Out

Something about the fade of summer makes me reach for the syrup and slap of great soul and reggae, and have been spending a lot of time with Black Moses since his passing, but the playlist has been dominated by these two albums...Racional by Tim Maia, which I discovered through a friend on oink (RIP) last year; and Light of Saba by Cedric Im Brooks, thanks to a dusty groover a while back. There's a great article on Brooks in the last Wax Poetics, but check it out for its total groove-meld of dub and ethio. I don't know much about Maia who was Brazilian, and I guess there are better albums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia), but the one-two punch of the openers are just unbelieavable, and the soul slinks humidly start to finish, and like all smoked out soulmen, he can't resist the odd spoken word of deep nonsense.