Incoming! by Riot Jazz Brass Band
Hop on your good foot and blow-out your ear-holes – hasta la Riot Jazz!
Riot Jazz Brass Band returns with their second album Incoming! It takes its name from MC Chunky’s favourite audience party-cipation game that’s been bringing dance-floors to their knees since their debut EP Gives You the Horn! in 2010.
Five years of non-stop, thunder-busting gigs later, the band’s tightly-knit, collective intuition for the live sound has come into full bloom. On Incoming!, this raw-wired energy is captured and distilled in 11 animated tunes, showcasing Riot Jazz Brass Band’s musical mastery in a sound-salad of afrobeat, drum’n’bass, funky grooves and hot jazz barnstormers.
With Incoming!, crowd-courter MC Chunky lays his quick-witted words on record, displaying a selection of different cuts of his jib, from the opening ‘Merkin,’ the groovy ‘Life of a Mouthpiece’ and the dubadelic ‘Nailing the Harmony’ to the playful ‘Risky’ and ‘Dem a Sus,’ an homage to a statement made by Manchester band Harlem Spirit, a message which still resonates past the boundaries of Manchester in 2015.
Incoming!, which also sees drum’n’bass legend Tonn Piper preside over heavyweight track ‘Checkmate,' came into being at the celebrated Blueprint Studios, where Elbow and Gorillaz have waxed their craft, under the super-duper vision of Fred Kindt and Andrew Tulloch, who’ve previously produced and engineered sound for Amy Winehouse and Kiss.
Tracklist
| 1. | Merkin' | 4:01 |
| 2. | Afro | 3:26 |
| 3. | Jump Jive | 3:54 |
| 4. | Nailing The Harmony | 4:11 |
| 5. | Life Of A Mouthpiece | 3:11 |
| 6. | Risky | 5:24 |
| 7. | Sheezy Ships | 4:31 |
| 8. | Checkmate (ft. Tonn Piper) | 4:02 |
| 9. | BBW | 3:35 |
| 10. | Pelinkovac | 4:09 |
| 11. | Dem A Sus | 3:13 |
Credits
Trumpets: Lucian Amos, Nick Walters, Sam Warner
Trombones: Kieran McLeod, Ed Horsey, Rich McVeigh
Sousaphone: Pete Robinson
Drums: Steve Pycroft
MC: Chunky
Guest Vocals: Tonn Piper (track 8)
Recorded at Blueprint Studios, Manchester
Engineered and Mixed by Fred Kindt
Mastered by Andrew Tulloch, The Blue Studio
Artwork and Design by Lucian Amos
License
All rights reserved.
Since setting sail in late-noughties Manchester, Riot Jazz Brass Band has been the bare-breasted, fist-pumping galleon figure of the Riot Jazz armada. Stirring up a hot-pot of peace-lovin' aggro-jazz and re-interpreted dancefloor bangers, these brass-wielding super-heroes of fine-tuning the good times have filled ear-holes, dance floors and festival fields across countries and continents!