New Mastersounds
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Albums
Plug and Play
Label: One note records
Release date: January 01, 2008
The New Mastersounds return from a year of intensive touring in the USA to deliver their fifth studio album, Plug & Play, featuring vocalist Dionne Charles.
What you get: trademark infectious grooves, warm vintage production by guitarist Eddie Roberts, and successful forays into sub-genres like psychedelic afro-funk, CTI-era jazz-funk, soul-jazz and classic soul. Though the NMS wear their musical roots on their sleeve, each track sounds unmistakably like The New Mastersounds and in Dionne Charles they have found a vocalist who can do justice to the phenomenal soulfulness of the music.
REMIXED
Label: Record Kicks
Release date: January 01, 2007
The crazy idea super-cool Milan indie label Record Kicks had was to ask to a bunch of talented contemporary funk, nu jazz and broken soul remixers to work on the “raw” deep funk NMS sound. The result is an absolutely essential compilation full of irresistible nu funk, soul, broken, headz future classics.
102 pour cent
Label: One Note Records
Release date: January 01, 2007
“While many would be content to crank out discs full of mere retrofunk, The New Mastersounds are not interested in re-creating the past; rather they are taking vintage sounds and attitudes and merging them with modern ideas. The result is an addictive blend that has one foot in the past, one foot in the present, and both eyes on the future.”
Live at la cova
Label: One note records
Release date: January 01, 2006
The fourth album. Recorded live at La Cova Den Xoroi, a spectacular cliffside club on the island of Menorca, Spain. Featuring Sam Bell on percussion. A mix of NMS originals and covers of funk and boogaloo classics (including Grant Green’s Jan Jan, the Meter’s Funky Miracle, and Rusty Bryant’s Fire Eater).
