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An Eclectic Band From Brooklyn NY Most Often Categorized As "funk" Though Their Influences Range From Rock Blues Jazz And African And Latin Music As Well. Their Early Albums Mandrill Mandrill Is Composite Truth Just Outside Of Town And Mandrilland Are Sometimes Wild And Experimental And Sometimes Danceable And Fun Often Times Both At Once. Their Approach Is Somewhat Comparable To Early Funkadelic. Like Funkadelic By Their 1975 Album Called Solid They Had Settled Into A Smoother More Traditional Funk Sound Losing Much But Not All Of Their Progressive Edge. The Band Was Seven Members Carlos Wilson Trombone Vocals Lou Wilson Trumpet Vocals And Ric Wilson Sax Vocals . The Brothers Were Born In Panama And Grew Up In The Bedford-Stuyvesant Area Of Brooklyn. Claude 'Coffee' Cave II Keyboards Percussion Vocals Bundy Cenac On Bass For One Album "Mandrill" Replaced By Fudgie Kae Solomon In 1972 Bass Vocals Charles Padro Drums Percussion Vocals For Two Albums Replaced By Neftali Santiago In 1972 Drums Percussion Vocals Omar Mesa Guitar Vocals Replaced By Doug Rodriguez In 1974 Lead Guitar Vocals . This Completed The Mandrill Line-Up From The Polydor Years 1970–1975 Which Make Up The Mandrill Sound. Other Members Of The Band In Later Years Included Juaquin Jessup Lead Guitar Percussion Vocals And Tommy Trujillo On Guitar. Their Songs Have Been Sampled By Many Hip-Hop Acts Such As Johnny D Public Enemy DJ Shadow Shawty Lo Big L Kanye West Jin Eminem And 9th Wonder. They Combined Funk With Many Other Styles Like Latin Salsa Rock Blues And Soul.
Some Of Their Songs Have Been Used In The Soundtracks Of Films The Greatest 1977 Directed By Tom Gries And Monte Hellman And The Warriors 1979 Directed By Walter Hill. The Band Continues To Perform Live Their Signature Song Is Arguably "Fencewalk."
Composite Truth 1973 Was The Band's Most Commercially Successful Album. 2. Croatian Band "ManDrill" Started Their Version Of Alternative-Funk In 1997. In 1998. They Won An Unsigned Band Contest "Ri Rock" And Started Gigging Frequently. ManDrill Music Changed Through The Years And Document Of That Is Debut Album "Embryo" 2002 .
After A Few Lineup Changes The Band Finally Released Their Second Album "P" In 2006 Havig A Very Succesful Hit "Ljubio Valjao". With The Popularity Came The Lawsuit For The Name - That's When ManDrill Had To Change The Name To Mandrili. Under That Name They Released Their Third And Most Succesful Album Ranked Top Five Croatian Albums For 2008 "Tibet". They're Still Very Active With The Following Lineup Kristian Ćoza - Vocals Tomislav Radinović - Guitars Robert Jovanović - Bass Dalibor Peršić - Drums

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