The Funky Freqs came up playing the post-Corea jazz-rock style known as free funk — music with fewer complicated melodies and more earthy grooving. Their new album is Hymn of the Third Galaxy.

The LP’s first single is a funky, rippling instrumental called “Don’t Believe The Dancers.” It’s as indebted to ’70s American jazz-funk as it is to Afrobeat, and it shows how those ...