Psychedelic funk
| Psychedelic funk | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1960s |
| Typical instruments | |
| Derivative forms | P-Funk |
| Fusion genres | |
| Other topics | |
| Psychedelic soul | |
Psychedelic funk is a musical genre which combines funk music with elements of psychedelia. It was pioneered in the late 1960s by acts like Sly and the Family Stone and George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic collective.
Following the late 1960s work of Jimi Hendrix, psychedelia began to have a widespread impact on African American musicians. Black funk artists such as Sly and the Family Stone borrowed techniques from psychedelic rock music, including wah pedals, fuzz boxes, echo chambers, and vocal distorters, as well as elements of blues rock and jazz. In the following years, groups such as Parliament-Funkadelic continued this sensibility, employing synthesizers and rock-oriented guitar work into open-ended funk jams. Producer Norman Whitfield would draw on this sound on popular Motown recordings such as the Temptations' "Cloud Nine" and Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
Subsequent artists such as Prince would be influenced by the style. In the early 1970s, jazz artists such as Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock combined elements of psychedelic funk with urban jazz to pioneer jazz fusion. In recent years, examples of psychedelic funk from world music scenes have been collected on compilations issued on the World Psychedelic Funk Classics label.
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