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The Brand New Heavies: Trunk Funk - The Best Of The Brand New Heavies

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Artist: The Brand New Heavies
Title: Trunk Funk - The Best Of The Brand New Heavies
Released: 1999.09.13
Label: London Records Ltd.
Time: 76:06
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Appears with:
Category: Soul / Funky
Rating: **........ (2/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2001.03.13
Price in €: 6,40
Web address: www.thebrandnewheavies.net

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[1] Saturday Nite (J.Kincaid/S.Law/L.Hamblin/M.Gaye) - 4:55
[2] Dream Come True (A.Levy/S.Bartholomew) - 4:52
[3] Never Stop (J.Kincaid) - 4:25
[4] Stay This Way (J.Wellman) - 4:13
[5] Dream on Dreamer (N.Davenport/D.Austin) - 4:01
[6] Back To Love (J.Kincaid) - 4:37
[7] Midnight At The Oasis (D.Nichtern) - 4:20
[8] BNH (A.Levy/S.Bartholomew/J.Kincaid/L.Gordon/J.Wellman) - 5:54
[9] You Are The Universe (A.Levy/S.Garrett) - 5:10
[10] Forever (J.Kincaid) - 5:11
[11] Shelter (J.Kincaid) - 6:10
[12] Sometimes (J.Kincaid) - 4:31
[13] Spend Some Time (A.Levy/A.Cheung) - 3:56
[14] You've Got A Friend (C.King) - 4:41
[15] Close To You (A.Levy/S.Bartholomew/J.Kincaid/N.Davenport) - 4:32
[16] Gimme One Of Those (A.Levy/S.Bartholomew/J.Kincaid/L.Gordon/J.Wellman) - 3:42
[17] Apparently Nothing (M.Nelson/C.Anderson) - 2:30
[18] Try My Love (L.Hamblin/S.Law/J.Kincaid/S.Bartholomew/A.Levy) - 3:44

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Jan Kincaid - Keyboards, Percussion, Drums, Producer, Mixing
Andrew Levy - Bass, Producer, Mixing
Simon Bartholomew - Guitar, Producer, Mixing
Carleen Anderson - Vocals, Producer, Mixing

Simon Law - Producer, Mixing
Lee Hamblin - Producer, Mixing
Ian Green - Producer, Additional Mix and Production, Vocal Arrangement
Martin Schmelze - Engineer
Ian McGuire - Original Recording
Phil Bodger - Mixing
Mark "Spike" Stent - Mixing
David Morales - Re-Mixing
Henry Binns - Programming
YoYo - Engineer
Michael Ross - Executive Producer
Eric Satrafin - Management
Pete Craigie - Mix Engineer
Tony Salter - Programming
Rick Guest - Photography
Matt Cook - Art direction

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Album Description

18 track 'best of' retrospective for this amazing English acid jazz outfit, including three new recordings with their new vocalist Carleen Anderson. Also features 12 U.K. top 40 hits, including 'Saturday Night', 'Dream Come True', 'Never Stop', 'Midnight At The Oasis' and 'You Are The Universe'. 1999 release. Featuring 11 tracks that don't appear on the US version!

Includes 12 Top 40 Hit Singles and Three New Tracks with New Singer Carleen Anderson.



Pioneers of the London acid-jazz scene, the Brand New Heavies translated their love for the funk grooves of the 1970s into a sophisticated sound which carried the torch for classic soul in an era dominated by hip-hop. Formed in 1985 by drummer/keyboardist Jan Kincaid, guitarist Simon Bartholomew and bassist/keyboardist Andrew Levy — longtime school friends from the London suburb of Ealing — the Brand New Heavies was originally an instrumental unit inspired by the James Brown and Meters records its members heard while clubbing the "rare groove" scene in vogue at the moment. The trio soon began recording their own music, gaining enormous exposure when their demo tracks were spun at the influential Cat in the Hat Club. Eventually adding a brass section, the Brand New Heavies built a cult following throughout the London club circuit, surviving the shift which saw the rare groove scene fade in the wake of acid house. After an earlier recording deal with Cooltempo yielded the single "Got to Give," the Heavies — now including vocalist Jay Ella Ruth — signed with the fledgling indie label Acid Jazz; recorded on a budget of just £8000, the group's self-titled LP appeared in 1990 to strong critical acclaim, resulting in a licensing deal with the American company Delicious Vinyl. With Ruth now out of the band, Delicious Vinyl hand-picked N'dea Davenport as her successor, insisting the Heavies re-record tracks from their debut for their first US effort, also an eponymous release which appeared in 1992.

After scoring at home with "Dream Come True" and "Stay This Way," the single "Never Stop" soon landed on the American R&B charts, with the Heavies the first British group to accomplish such a feat with a debut single since Soul II Soul several years earlier; a subsequent New York performance augmented by rappers Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) and MC Serch (3rd Bass) inspired the group to begin absorbing hip-hop, and that summer they cut Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol 1, an album including guest appearances by rappers including Main Source, Gang Starr, Grand Puba and the Pharcyde. 1994's Brother Sister, which went platinum in Britain, was Davenport's last recording with the Heavies before beginning a solo career; she was replaced by singer Siedah Garrett in time for 1997's Shelter. Two years later the group reappeared with a British best-of album entitled Trunk Funk: The Best of the Brand New Heavies; the title was recycled the following year for an American compilation, Trunk Funk Classics 1991-2000, which featured a new song recorded with Davenport.
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Jason Ankeny, All-Music Guide


Arg, die Engländer und ihre Selbstkasteiung durch sklavische Spezialistenkennerschaftsumsetzung. Was soll man •99 zu einer Band von Northern Soul entwachsenen Neo-Mods mitteilen, die einen schon Anfang der 90er mit ihrer kleinbürgerlichen Note für Note-Nachzeichnung der Tower of Power- bis Chaka Khan-Lektion ein Loblied auf Ian Levine anstimmen liess, der sich aus der Northern-Ecke zumindest in HiNRG-Untiefen wagte? Fans als Handwerker, die verleiden einem noch die Freude an Maria Muldaurs ""Midnight at the Oasis"". Warum das heute der Nachprüfung bedürfen soll, ist mir rätselhaft, da fällt wohl selbst Michael Reinboth nichts mehr zu ein. Drei neue Tracks? Die kann raussuchen, wer sich auch die neue Jamiroquai gekauft hat.

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The Brand New Heavies have knocked out the hits over the years, like the deliciously danceable Dream On dreamer, the lusciously louche Midnight At The Oasis and the euphoric and uplifting You Are The Universe. Indeed a good bit of Trunk Funk is more familiar and funky then the band's somewhat shadowy chart profile would seem to suggest to the pop pundit. Mind you, that might be because some of it sounds much like some of the rest of it; ie. something like Jamiroquai and M People stuck in a musical food processor with Soul II Soul. But this is delicious listening: all the grooves are smooth and the vocals are sweet as a dream. Indeed, it would be a toe-tapping tribute to the band, were it not for the fact that it also heralds the dawning of a brand new Heavies, now fronted by the mighty, magical Carleen Anderson, who lends her lungs to the recent single Saturday Nite, the bass-heavy carnival of Try My Love and a rather pointless rerun of the Young Disciples' Apparently Nothing (which Anderson sung much better seven years earlier). What the future holds for the Heavies is anyone's guess, but the past has yielded plenty already.

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THE BRAND NEW HEAVIES - THE BRAND NEW SINGER

The Brand New Heavies have a new lead vocalist to join their ranks; none other than Carleen Anderson.

The Brand New Heavies continue their tradition that started in 1989 when the band recruited local girl Jay Ella Ruth (TBNH) to their ranks, followed by N'Dea Davenport (Brother Sister) from New Orleans, then Siedah Garrett (Shelter), singer/ songwriter based in Los Angeles, joined the band in 1996.

The band found a new lead vocalist on their own doorstep; the original Acid Jazz Queen Carleen Anderson.

Originally from the U.S.A., Carleen - the daughter of the legendary Vicki Anderson and step-daughter of Bobby Bird, both members of the James Brown Revue since the early sixties - settled in the U.K. in 1991 when she joined The Young Disciples for their hugely influential self titled album.

The band are currently working on a new album due for release in the new year. In the meantime The Brand New Heavies are set to release a new single entitled "Saturday Night'' due for release this September 13th.

September 27th sees the release of the album 'Trunk Funk'. The Best of The Brand New Heavies', an album featuring 3 new tracks plus hits like Dream on Dreamer, Midnight At the Oasis, Stay This Way, Back to Love, Never Stop and many many more.

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http://www.webpro.se/bnh/



They may trade-in their vocalists seemingly every album, yet Brand New Heavies have stuck firmly to what they know - how to make successful funk records. As far back as 1987, the core of BNH (Kincaid, Levy and Bartholomew) began assembling the foundation stones of their formulaic sound that would lead to successive platinum records. Whether its powerful overtures of N’Dea Davenport on Brother, Sister or Siedah Garret at the mike on Shelter, the seamless transition of BNH personnel failed to affect the classic funk sound that made them such a worldwide success. Don’t be put off because Trunk Funk...the best of is a ‘greatest hits’ album, it draws the cream of the crop from BNH’s five previous albums and three samples from their seventh album due early next year. With former Young Disciple, Carleen Anderson now a fully-fledged ‘Heavy’, BNH have begun a new chapter, and started by stripping down and remodelling Apparently Nothing (ahhh…not again), penning the down-tempo Try My Love and the ultimate going out record Saturday Nite. Put simply, Trunk Funk…the best of is BNH at their finest, from the toe-tapping Dream on Dreamer to funk classics Midnight at the Oasis and Sometimes, each singer’s input demonstrates not only their magical talent and influence but the songwriting talent at the heart of BNH.

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