On august 3rd ’12, Unique Records released a new compilation in the New Testament of Funk collection. The New Testament of Funk is a melting pot of known and unknown dancefloor pearls. Here on this compilation (only available as download) we have 4 bonus tracks!! Metrophonic´s “Latin Racer” is a classic Nu-Jazz track loaded with
Licks & Brains are currently in full preparation for their new album, which will be recorded in the beginning of 2012. This album will be something quite different, as it will feature several vocal guests including Laura Vane and Frank Montis (also on Hammond). Over the past few months the band played live with these two vocalists already,
The new band of Marnix Busstra, called Marnix Busstra’s Band, recorded their first CD in October. The band had a very inspiring recording-session on 26 and 27 October, in the E-sound studio in Weesp. The recordings were as natural as possible, trying to capture the intens live-interaction between the musicians – with great result! The
You might have thought otherwise but no, The Soul Snatchers are still alive and kickin’. It’s been quiet for some time but the Soul Snatchers have not been sitting still! Over the past years they did work on other projects as well and released albums with acts like Tommy Tornado, Laura Vane & The Vipertones, The Jazzinvaders, The Spinshots and DelMontis but…
Laura and her Vipertones are full steam ahead these days. After some very succesful shows over the past few months at several of the bigger (jazz)festivals, their second album ‘Sugar Fix‘ hit the streets worldwide on June 10th. Especially the press in Germany is giving some good reviews on their latest album (also available on vinyl by
After a sabbatical of 1,5 years, The Auratones hit back at Jazz in Duketown in June. The organisation declared that show – attended by over 5000 people- as the revelation of the festival. The Auratones rocked the place with a hard-groovin’ Focus front man Thijs van Leer on a.o. the Hammond and his daughter Berenice
This spring a new instrumental funksound will hit your ears. Amsterdam’s seven-piece outfit The Jig releases its first album: Brooklyn Blowout, and the vinyl 7” Grindbag. Recorded in New York, the album breathes the cosmopolitan and yet warmly human atmosphere of Brooklyn, combined with true Amsterdam swagger. Elements of afrobeat, soul, rhythm ‘n’ blues and
Laura Vane & The Vipertones must have stepped into a time machine, how else did they manage to write and record an album of such fine quality and distinction during last years busy touring schedule? ‘Sugar Fix’ the follow up album to the highly acclaimed self-titled previous release, will stop you dead in your tracks, as the
As if you were taken from an Italian discotheque to the market of Lagos and after seeing a blaxploitation movie you are being dropped in the steppes of Central Asia… The new Monsieur Dubois album, which is out now, feels just like that. After the debut “Ruff” and successor “Soul Integration” the Dutch band strikes back
The new Licks & Brains album ‘The Road’ has recently been published in Thailand by Hitman Jazz, a label which focuses on bringing European jazz acts to the Thai market. So if you want your exclusive Thai version of the album, book a holiday and find the album in one of the 11 Hitman Jazz Outlets or major department