From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

In 2006, Stone's Throw Records released an incredible CD of music from the Kashmir High

marching band, in effect.

One of the best raw soul R&B collections you were ever likely to hear, especially from a group of kids from a Houston high school in the late 70s.

My guest, Director Mark Lansman, heard that story on Morning

Edition, about the same time I heard it, went and bought the CD. He went one step better. He made a

terrific film about it. Thunder Soul. Thanks a much for being here. Thank you. Pleasure.

And it's a great story because you heard that music. What I heard was that great sort of thing

you hear when you hear regional R&B, that sort of four-track recording kind

of thing. You hear all the surface noise. You can hear them counting in the background almost.

You just wanted to, obviously, you wanted to go and meet the people behind it.

Yeah. Well, I mean, this was more than four-track R&B. This was like a wall of funk that I hadn't

heard in a long time. I just assumed when I heard it on NPR that it was the JBs or one of the likely sources.

It sounds like the barquees to me.

The barcaes. I mean, that big wall of sound with huge horns.

But also that kind of thing you get for recording that much music with that kind of

primitive equipment. Right. Exactly. Back in 1972 or when they were recording.

And I was blown away when the reporter came on and said,

can you believe these are 14, 15-year-old high school kids from Houston, Texas,

circa in 1972.

And I said, no, I can't.

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