Interview: George Clinton

Septuagenarian sonic traveller George Clinton has been traversing the outer edges of funk, electronics and jazz since the early seventies.

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As essential as James Brown or Sly Stone, as wayward as Sun Ra or Moondog, his Afrofuturist pop helped birth hip-hop and took far-out funk to a completely different planet.

As a founder of Funkadelic and Parliament, his psychedelic hi-jinx and raucous improv remains one of the most bankable live shows in modern history, with his band still headlining in excess of 200 concerts a year.

We caught up with the funk legend to learn more about his musical motivations and the new Parliament record that’s about to land…