Listen To Drone Duo White/Light Cover A Funkadelic Classic

By Jon Graef in Arts & Entertainment on Nov 9, 2012 9:40PM

In a recent Halloween-spirited show at the Whistler, Chicago drone duo White/Light covered Funkadelic's classic third studio album, 1971's Maggot Brain. Veteran sound engineer and Chicagoist pal Jeremy Lemos, who plays in the twosome along with guitarist Matthew Hale Clark, generously uploaded the set to his Soundcloud page. You can listen to White/Light impregnate mother earth for the fourth time below.

In the Soundcloud comment section, Lemos also gives timestamps for each of the 7 individual songs off "Brain", presumably so you don't have to play musical grabass trying to figure out which song is the one that Sleigh Bells sampled for "Rill Rill." (FYI: It's "Can You Get To That," and it appears at the 12:57 mark).

Even though it clocks in at 50 minutes, the whole set is absolutely worth your time, from the creativity of the arrangements, which connect George Clinton's influential group to underground noise, to the shredding of Clark, who plays like Jimi Hendrix were Jimi Hendrix white and looked like he worked at Google. Come and get to this: