EPMD - The Big Payback

EPMD - The Big PaybackEPMD's initial success in 1987 seemed to take a lot of people by surprise. Without build up or fanfare, they launched this stunning debut 12" and, so ill prepared were people for it, that the label was still misspelling their name. Those early 12" copies of 'It's My Thing' and the hard to find UK 7" that followed shortly after have them billed as EPEE MD. Before they were signed, they were going by EEPMD, but they decided to drop an E due to the

surrounded by melodies and orchestrations that are nothing short of heavenly

final and most successful release on the Hansa Records label

Around 2018

With "Songs and Photographs

The band decided to play live and on air African Pop Session and Ekedi - both written and recorded by the Cameroonian saxophonist in the early seventies - quickly joined by Manu Dibango and his saxophone

The album title cut addressed a variety of targets

About 300 drunken hipsters made an uproar during Charles' performance caused by poor police security

John Coltrane's "Live" at the Village Vanguard was his first official "live" album

What's Real

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which consisted of footage from the Cow Palace

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