Alan Parker / John Cameron

Afro Rock was recorded at Morgan Studios by John Cameron and Alan Parker in London in 1973 as a collection of stripped-down African rhythms, virtuoso jazz instrumentation, fuzzed up wah wah guitars and spaced out library breaks. The percussion is effortlessly funky, and those flutes so melodic, it’s as if the LP was crafted with the beat lovers of the future firmly in mind. As Cameron himself described it in Unusual Sounds, this is “heavy duty drum-and-bass salsa music”. As with all of our KPM re-issues, the audio for The Road Forward comes from the original analogue tapes and has been remastered for vinyl by Be With regular Simon Francis.

• 01 Heavy Water
• 02 Ice Breaker
• 03 Solid Satin
• 04 Punch Bowl
• 05 Frozen Steam
• 06 Black Light
• 07 Range Rover
• 08 Swamp Fever
• 09 Safari So Good
• 10 Survival
• 11 Afro Waltz
• 12 Sahara Sunrise
• 13 Rockin Rhino
• 14 Heat Haze
• 15 Afro Metropolis