Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Afrobeat and horns. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
Black Market Brass release their second album ‘Undying Thirst’. Founded in Minneapolis, USA in the spring of 2012, BMB came together when two guitar players discovered each other’s almost identical Craigslist ads aimed at starting a funk band influenced by, among other things, the sounds of Fela Kuti, K Frimpong, and King Sunny Ade. Over the next three years the band would relentlessly rehearse, fine tune, and develop their sound. What started as a funk band playing obscure covers eventually blossomed into a creative collective of musicians that writes, arranges, and performs original music that builds on the sounds of Nigerian Afrobeat by tastefully blending it with other styles. Their first album ‘Cheat And Start A Fight’ from 2016 was laden with endless polyrhythms driven by intricate percussion, intertwined guitar parts, and rock-solid bass and drums. And horns.
The bands press release says of the new record: “‘Undying Thirst’, is a noxious brew of diesel and bleach; a special long-player full of wasteoid rippers for skullduggerous hover-bike gangs peddling fugazi relics and snake oil tinctures. Hellacious guitars, nitrous-charged percussion, a brass section harsher than paint-thinner, and a special batch of short-circuited electronics and synthesizers will leave your head buzzing into the 31st century. Blasting ‘Undying Thirst’ from your home speaker system is like going over a waterfall in a rusted out oil barrel, long after the sun has boiled the falls dry.”
Tracklisting: Cheat And Start A Fight / N.B.T. / War Room / Into The Thick / Intro / Undying Thirst / So Who (pt 1) / So Who (pt 2)