WAXPOETICS 38

It’s been a long time coming. In fact, for the past eight years and thirty-seven issues, WAXPOETICS have wanted to do a Curtis Mayfield cover. It finally worked out for the unofficial Film/Hustler Issue, in which they take a look at Mayfield’s epic soundtrack recording Super Fly. New York writer Michael Gonzales pulls from his own 1996 Curtis Mayfield interview as well as tapping Curtis associates, guitarists Craig McMullen and Phil Upchurch and composer/arranger Johnny Pate, to tell the story of the finest blaxploitation score of the 1970s.

Features:

Re:Discovery Melvin Van Peebles, Manfred Krug, Marvin Gaye, Judgment Night OST, John Carpenter

Roc Raida: The Grand Master

Adrian Younge: Black Dynamite composer refuses to cut corners with his authentic old soul

Gangs On Film: The South Bronx of 1979 documented in 80 Blocks from Tiffany's

The Provocateur: Director Spike Lee continues to tell personal stories by any means necessary

Playing It Straight: Black Dynamite director Scott Sanders crafts high-caliber blaxploitation homage

Analog OutCybernetics: Louis and Bebe Barron, and the sonic life-forms of Forbidden Planet

and much more