funk my flute

May 23, 2009 4:38 PM

Please recommend the dirtiest, overblown, funked up, angry distorted flute playing.
posted by mattoxic to media & arts (20 comments total)

You already know Rahsaan Roland Kirk, I imagine.
posted by box at 5:01 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

I like Greg Pattillo.
posted by rhartong at 5:25 PM on May 23

Nicole Mitchell, although she only sometimes meets your criteria. Try this clip.
posted by hydrophonic at 5:29 PM on May 23

If you are willing to accept shakuhachi instead of flute, significant chunks of Brian Ritchie's two albums "Ryoanji" and "Shakuhachi Club NYC" meet your criteria. He cites Albert Ayler as a big influence.
posted by No-sword at 5:42 PM on May 23

Ian Anderson?
posted by Sys Rq at 5:52 PM on May 23

Along the same lines as Nicole Mitchell, Eric Dolphy and Sam Rivers both played the flute sometimes--I get the feeling you're looking for either funk or skronk, though, and neither of them did much of that. Bobbi Humphrey did a lot of the former, but not much of the latter. Might as well mention Yusef Lateef, while I'm at it.
posted by box at 7:01 PM on May 23

I'm sure you've seen this, via BB, Beatboxing flautist performs Super Mario theme
posted by glider at 7:53 PM on May 23

Another beatboxing flautist is Tim Barsky.
posted by poissonrouge at 8:18 PM on May 23

yep Ian Anderson with Jethro Tull on Aqualung is pretty wacky.
posted by sully75 at 8:36 PM on May 23

Best known for having been sampled by the Beastie Boys, Jeremy Steig's Howlin' For Judy.
posted by Bobby Bittman at 9:51 PM on May 23

Oh, and then there's this dirty-ass funk flute by Harold Alexander. This song is totally off the rails.
posted by Bobby Bittman at 9:57 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

How about the late great fife player Otha Turner?
posted by hydrophonic at 11:29 PM on May 23 [1 favorite]

And who can forget Hermeto Pascoal's "Música da Lagoa?" (Courtesy of flapjax at midnite.)
posted by hydrophonic at 11:39 PM on May 23

Back Home by dutch band Golden Earring. Funky, but cool too, in a grand funk railroad kind of way.
posted by ouke at 12:04 AM on May 24

how about the flute parts in Hocus Pocus? Pretty funky, especially if you see the guy playing it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpV5InLw52U
posted by Redhush at 11:46 AM on May 24

Golden Earring was Dutch???
posted by cmoj at 5:42 PM on May 24

Karl Denson, saxophone funkster, plays flute on quite a few tunes. Flute Down is one.
posted by OHenryPacey at 7:16 PM on May 25

This song (McDonald and Giles' "Tomorrow's People") from 2:30 to 4:00.
posted by Sys Rq at 11:37 AM on May 26

Or this one (Edú Lôbo's "Viola fora de moda") from 1:40 to 2:04.

I was looking for more fife music and found this clip of Thais Morell, of Brazil, getting down with some Ghanaian musicians. She's playing the pife, or pifano, traditionally from the northeast of Brazil.
posted by hydrophonic at 11:23 PM on May 26

I don't remember if there is overblown flute playing exactly, but one of my favorite CDs is a compilation called "Heavy Flute."
posted by xulu at 10:46 PM on May 29