THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: Breaks From The Border (2011)

THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS: Breaks From The Border (2011)
The New Mastersounds have been recording quality instrumental funk (often in the Meters or funky Grant Green tradition) for over a decade now, occasionally hooking up with some of the best vocalists of the contemporary scene. Presumably bored of the casual ease with which this has been accomplished they had a crack at a couple of new angles on Breaks From The Border. The first of these was recording the album in Texas (hence the LP title) – no great hardship admittedly – and the second was for members of the band to do vocals. So how did they get on? We asked the monkeyboxing.com tea lady (she’s a very funky woman) to give us the rundown…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM