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Uptown 03:07 | | 02. Can't Buy Groove 02:55 | | 03. Arnold 02:36 | | 04. Hot N' Psycho 03:45 | | 05. Done N' Dusted 01:35 | | 06. Jungle 03:18 | | 07. The San Remo Affair 03:02 | | 08. A Funky Badd Time (With A Double D) 01:56 | | 09. Pigeon Spikes 02:39 | | 10. Mad Dog 03:34 | | 11. Alfred's Nightmare 02:40 | | 12. Jamaica 03:16 | | | | | | R E L E A S E N O T E S >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> | | ------------------------- <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< | | | | | | When life is good, it's good. When life is bad, it's bad. But when it | | gets so bad you get the blues, life gets funky. And by the looks of | | 2020, The Du-Rites have no choice but to be funkier than ever before | | on A Funky Bad Time, the NYC duo's fifth album in five years. | | | | Multi-instrumentalists Jay "J-Zone" Mumford (drums, keyboards, | | percussion, occasional vocals) and Pablo Martin (guitar, bass, | | keyboards) were in the midst of transitioning their studio chemistry | | into a live act. Their previous album, 2019's Soundcheck at 6, was | | recorded live, and a January 2020 gig opening for The Skatalites at | | Brooklyn Bowl set things down the right path. Then the world was | | swept by a pandemic, canceling all plans. But with much worse ahead, | | a derailment of plans seemed minor in comparison. | | | | As the domino effect of turmoil continued into the spring, Jay and | | Pablo retreated to their home studios and put together a relentlessly | | funky, dark and nasty album, channeling the sting of a world in chaos | | and maintaining their own sanity through its creation. In a perfect | | example of "when times are bad, you must be badder," the duo utilizes | | the chaos as fuel to be emotionally funkier than ever before. A Funky | | Bad Time by default becomes the most unique and focused release in | | the band's catalog; a product of unprecedented times, set to an | | otherworldly backdrop their four prior releases just didn't have. | | | | "Uptown" and "Jamaica" are not only Pablo and Jay's NYC | | neighborhoods, respectively - they're the cinematic, moody bookends | | to an album full of pandemic-fueled funk that goes from bedlam | | ("Jungle"); to apocalypse ("The San Remo Affair"); to funky blues ("A | | Funky Bad Time (With Double D's)". But things never go so dark that | | The Du-Rites lose their tongue-in-cheek humor, which is the Tylenol | | for tough times. "Can't Buy Groove" is a grease-covered funk nugget | | poking fun at amateur musicians buying expensive gear. The playful | | "Hot N' Psycho" humorously sees an old man with a Cadillac attempt to | | flirt in the face of cancel culture and "Done N' Dusted" is a peek | | into what rehearsals actually sounded like pre-social distancing, | | when Jay and Pablo could only play one instrument at a time without | | the aid of multi-tracking. | | | | With on-record credits playing behind artists as wide-ranging as | | Eddie Palmieri, Ghostface Killah and Robert Glasper (as The Du-Rites) | | and Tom Tom Club, Broken Bells, Danger Mouse & Karen O, Michael | | Kiwanuka and Lord Finesse (individually), Jay and Pablo's playing and | | composing chops cut through the limitations and darkness of our | | current world for the funkiest 35 minutes of 2020. | | | | | | Personnel: | | Jay Mumford (J-Zone) - drums, AceTone organ, percussion, vocals, | | hammond organ, clavinet, elec. piano | | Pablo Martin - bass, guitar, synthesizers (Moog Taurus, wah organ) | | Horn Diapersen - bass on "Arnold" and "Alfred's Nightmare" | | Bruce Martin - percussion on "Uptown" and "Can't Buy Groove" | | Broughamin' Fred - vocals on "Hot N' Psycho" | | | | | | YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO BUY THIS SHIT IF YOU LIKE IT RIGHT?! | | | | | | . . | | |\/\/| | | |____| | |------------------------------=---=-======-=---=-------------------------| |===/\===============================SOUNDz==========================/\===| '--/__\--------------------------=-2013-2020-=----------------------/__\--'