Paul Hillery, crate-digger extraordinaire and cosmic folk evangelist, returns with Folk Funk and Trippy Troubadours Volume 3. It’s a 22-track odyssey of sun-dappled grooves, psychedelic meanderings, and bass-heavy folk-funk. This time, his treasure trove lands on BBE Music, a label that knows a rare gem when it hears one.
Imagine yourself on a Greyhound bus, Kerouac novel in hand, drifting through desert highways as Sheila Chandra’s ethereal whispers blend into the euphoric pulse of Tim Green.
Somewhere between the lo-fi dub haze and the private-press mysticism of Soapstone’s soft-rock, you realize Hillery is going beyond just compiling music. He’s reviving forgotten voices and curating a sonic séance for the deeply curious.
A self-described “enlightened heathen,” Hillery has long been the oracle of folk-funk obscurities. He shares his finds through Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours and packs dancefloors alongside legends like Spiritualized, The Polyphonic Spree, and Julian Cope.
His DJ sets have graced everything from Spiritland to Psychemagik’s Magik Forest, and his compilations have spun their way onto BBC 6 Music’s best-of lists. Triple vinyl, CD, digital—however you take it, Volume 3 is more like an initiation than a mere album.
Check it out on Bandcamp here.
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