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Artist - The Bamboos feat Alice Russell
Title - Bring It Home 7"
Label - (Tru Thoughts)
Released - 20.08.07
Posted 21.07.07
'Bring It Home' is the superb second single from The Bamboos new album 'Rawville'. The single features sassy soul vocals from Alice Russell, who is currently working on songs for her next solo album with TM Juke as well as tracks for the next Massive Attack album.
One of my favourite tracks from a
great LP, this superfunky rump shaker has itch written all over it. The
kind of thing that will have everyone from hip hop heads to the funk and soul
crew grooving along in an instant. A phat arrangement of keys, bass,
funky drumming and wah wah compliments Alice's lovely vocals. The flipside holds
a very handy instrumental too. This authentic
sounding and looking 7" is all about having pure
soul belting from the speakers. It's another dancefloor bomb from the ever great
TT camp that we will be going back to for years to come!
For this track The Bamboos wanted to create a rimshot-type groove like the James
Brown track 'Licking Stick' combined with the 'woman done wrong'
theme of tunes such as 'Message From The Soul Sisters' by Vicki
Anderson and 'You're Losin' Me' by Ann Sexton.
This classic soul/funk track is the story of a woman who tells her man to 'take
care of business' (the intimate variety) or she'll walk. All lyrics are written
by Lance Ferguson of the Bamboos.
Lance is currently working on a remix of 'Bring It Home' for his solo project as
'Lanu'. The Bamboos have just finished a successful European tour where
they converted a huge number of people to their unique funk sound with their
super tight live performances. The Aussie deep funk seven-piece use this song in
their live performances as a vehicle to show the audience how they 'build The
Bamboos funk'. The song is broken down to the drums then all the other
instruments are added in one at a time.
The Bamboos are currently playing album launch gigs in Australia and their track
'My Baby's Cheating' from the new album 'Rawville' has been licensed to Paramount
for the Transformers movie in the USA.
Available from Etch
Shop and all good music shops from 20th August 2007.
More info:
www.tru-thoughts.co.uk
www.thebamboos.com
www.myspace.com/thebamboos
www.alicerussell.co.uk
www.myspace.com/alicerusselluk
Rating - 10/10
Reviewer - PT
