Mantis - Turn Onto Music (CD)

Blues / Funk / Rock (Fiji Islands)

Original release 1973 Vertigo Swirl
CD Reissue 2012
sealed !

Many of these songs are covers, but the best of them is Shake That Fat with a sweet slide guitar part and pounding beat.
But the highlight is the 13+ minute suite of a finale where the band gets really funky with fast high hats, sweet funk basslines, wah guitar, congos, and some psychedelic organ to back the extended guitar solo.
It comes down with a really surreal-funk feel.

Members:
Joe Heritage (Bass Guitar / Vocals)
Ronnie Sammuel (Keyboards)
Paul Stephen (Drums)
Waisea Vatuwaga (Lead Guitar / Vocals)
Reuben Davui (Guitar / Vocals)

Tracks:
Day & Night
In the Midnight Hour
You Don't Love Me
Mississippi Queen
Shake That Fat
Turn Onto Music
Island Suite
a. Firewalker
b. Back at the Village
c. Hurricane Bebe