I hadn’t contemplated the cover of Mandrill’s eponymous debut LP for many years until, that is, I saw Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It has a very exciting action sequence featuring baboons, which put Mandrill on my radar screen for the first time in years.Mandrillwas/is a funk-jazz-latin-rock fusion outfit named for a very colorful baboon relative. This LP is one of the few I ever bought based on the cover art:
The music is *almost* as striking as the cover. Here’s the title track:
