Evan Taylor is the former bandleader of the Bernie Worrell Orchestra as well as a producer and musician of note. He has worked and collaborated with the likes of Mike Watt, King Tuff, members of Talking Heads, members of Black Flag on country-influenced records, Marc Ribot, The Chapin Sisters and Sean Ono Lennon. Worrell is of course the keyboard/synth player who helped put some of the cosmic weirdness into the music of Paliament-Funkadelic as well as a much broader swath of music across decades than may seem obvious and worth exploring. When Worrell passed away in 2016 he left behind a rich legacy of great music including a plethora of unfinished and unreleased projects. Some of those were entrusted to Taylor to complete and bring into the world in a form that one hopes would have made Worrell proud. The first of those is Bernie Worrell: Wave From The WOOniverse which released on vinyl on Bernie’s birthday April 19 on Record Store Day 2024 via Org Music and became available for streaming on June 28. It includes contributions from some of the aforementioned as well as Bootsy Collins and members of TV on the Radio, Fishbone, Living Colour and Cibo Matto and B-52s. The compilation additionally features an unreleased Funkadelic song “Confusion.” Altogether the album is a rich tour through the career of one of popular music’s most beloved and influential figures.
Listen to our interview with Taylor on Bandcamp and follow his musical endeavors at the links below for his own website and that of his record label Loantaka Records.
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