Karl Hector is the alias of German producer and guitarist JJ Whitefield, the visionary behind Poets of Rhythm and The Whitefield Brothers, bands whose raw analog sound and return to late sixties and early seventies funk archetypes paved the way for labels such as Daptone, Truth & Soul and Timmion. With *Unstraight Ahead*, the band blends West African sounds (Ghana, Mali) with Ethiopian jazz à la Mulatu Astatke, all tied together by the groovy experimentations of 1970s krautrock. A timeless album that pushes the boundaries of funk.