Menahan Street Band – Make The Road By Walking

Label:
Dunham
Art.Nr.:
0450642
Kat.Nr.:
DUN-1000 (DAP-015)

Released:
2008
Cover:
Picture
Format:
LP
Pressung:
US - Reissue
Zustand:
Neu
Vinyl:
Cover:
Genre:
Exotic Grooves + Funk + Latin / Salsa / Bossanova
Stichworte:
sharon jones, lee fields, charles bradley
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Includes Free Digital Download Code Of The Entire Album!

20.. Reissue / Repress on Unlimited Black Vinyl.

The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and the Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking will be released on Dunham Records, Brenneck’s new imprint of Daptone Records, a joint venture devoted to bringing the Menahan Street sound from Brenneck’s bedroom out into the world. The album is marked by eerily quirky arrangements, featuring vibes, horns, piano, organ, percussion and even a strange bling sound that Brenneck creates by tuning and plucking the strings of his guitar on the wrong side of the bridge. However, it is not the textures themselves that make the new sound of Menahan Street so exciting, but rather the way the sounds are incorporated into the heavy rhythms and bold melodies of the compositions.

The title of the album was inspired both by the eponymous community center below Brenneck’s apartment and the natural rhythm that has continued to move this project forward. Shortly after its release as Dunham’s debut 45rpm single, the song “Make the Road by Walking” was sampled by fellow Brooklynite Jay-Z for his smash hit from American Gangster, “Roc Boys (and the Winner is…)” (later declared by Rolling Stone to be the No. 1 single of 2007). Make the Road by Walking is a soulful exploration by a talented young group of musicians into the possibilities of instrumental music, an original, personal, and uncompromised creation that embodies the sound of a select group of musicians in one distinct place, at one particular moment in time. “This album is kind of a window into our world on Menahan Street,” says Brenneck. “In a way, we’re simply the street’s unofficial house band.”

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TitelFeaturingProducingLänge
A1. Make The Road By WalkingThomas Bren...02:59play
A2. Tired Of FightingThomas Bren...03:31play
A3. Home Again!Thomas Bren...03:21play
A4. Montego SunsetThomas Bren...03:18play
A5. KarinaThomas Bren...03:26play
A6. UntitledThomas Bren...00:14play
B1. The TraitorThomas Bren...02:42play
B2. The ContenderThomas Bren...03:48play
B3. BirdsThomas Bren...03:01play
B4. EsmaThomas Bren...03:06play
B5. Going The DistanceThomas Bren...02:31play
B6. UntitledThomas Bren...02:58play
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