Defunkt live England, July 15th 1983, I recorded this on Betamax using a Sony C6 MK1 and Sony videotape.
Defunkt is an American musical group founded by the trombonist and singer Joseph Bowie in 1978 in New York City. Their music touches on elements of punk rock, funk, and jazz.
The group's original focus was on danceable jazz music. Joseph Bowie remains the only consistent member of the group over it's history; he has been noted for displaying the influence of far-ranging musicians like Ornette Coleman, James Brown, and Joe Strummer.
The first incarnation of the group was active in New York City's "No Wave" radical underground music scene, which also included fusion-oriented groups like Material and Sonic Youth. Joseph's saxophonist brother Bryon, bassist Melvin Gibbs and future Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid were early contributors.
Bowie disbanded the group in 1983 due to a lack of mainstream success, and retired to the island of St. Croix for a few years. He returned to New York in 1986 and assembled a new Defunkt lineup, with the addition of multiple singers and a large horn section to pursue a new focus on combining 1930s big band and swing music with 1970s funk. This incarnation of the group, with many lineup changes under Bowie's leadership, has released several additional studio albums, starting with In America in 1988. Their latest album, Mastervolt, was released in 2015.
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