Herbie Hancock - Ostinato (Suite For Angela)
Math: it ain't just that rock shit. Before the more oddly metered parts Fusion became, well, this, bands like Herbie's Mwandishi Sextet were coming up with weirdly funky planetscapes like the above. Built around the repeating bassline/bass clarinet riff in god-knows-what-time signature, these dudes stir up some seriously cosmic shit--which, maybe I'm just weird, but listening to anyone funk it up in like 15/8 or whatever (wikipedia says 15/8) for 13 minutes straight, complete with requisite weirdo analog synth blasts, is just fucking fantastic. It's too bad everyone stopped exploring this kind of sound after like a year, but I guess it must have been pretty difficult to sustain. But you know what? Fuck that--music is definitely long overdue for a mathy ass Kozmigroov revival.
