EURO CINEMA: Thank You (The Cuckoo)/ One Kind Of Coffee Ltd. 7″ (2014)

Any wax warriors aghast at the lack of vinyl to accompany the recent drop of Funkstamatic, the second LP by Dutch crew Euro Cinema, can relax a little bit. Painted Dog Records have put out a seven inch of two of the dopest cuts – the gritty uptempo mover Thank You (The Cuckoo) and the guitar-picking New Orleans (or rather, Nieuw Orlijns) funk of 1 Kind Of Coffee. I say ‘can relax a little bit’ – they’ve only pressed 250 copies – 100 …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EURO CINEMA: Funkstamatic (2014)

If their Blue Note-centric debut album Ten-4 was a single screen movie house, Euro Cinema‘s hammond funk-rock/ New Orleans funk/ lounge/ neo-soul/ jazz-funk follow up Funkstamatic is more of your multiplex type affair. Mind you if you caught any of the procession of singles and leaked tracks in the two year run-up to this drop – you could tell it wasn’t going to all be west coast jazz funk again. First there was Der Alte – the cover of the theme of the still-running 70s Hun cop show that was more…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EURO CINEMA: Ducktape (2013)

Dutch funk maestros Euro Cinema team up with tenor saxophonist Efraim Trujillo on this one to create something adhesive enough to hold together the concept of Eddie Harris and the concept of the JBs simultaneously. As if that’s not enough, there’s even some Parliaments-style guitar towards the end. What could possibly be strong enough, durable enough and versatile to attach all these things? Why – ducktape of course. Or in this case…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

EURO CINEMA: Ten-4 – 2011

EURO CINEMA: Ten-4 – 2011
Euro Cinema? From Holland? Yeah, it’s ok - I’m referring to Euro Cinema the hammond beat band, from Holland, not the ‘Euro cinema’ ‘from Holland’ that my mate’s dad used to keep in a shoebox at the bottom of his wardrobe, if you know what I mean. What’s Hammond-y jazz funk got to do with film? It’s a ‘library music’ reference isn’t it – you know – all that ‘groovy’ sixties stuff that sound-tracked spy flicks, caper flicks, crime flicks – and well, pretty much anything that went anywhere near cinefilm or a cathode ray tube in the sixties. Clearly these boys are big fans of such funky types as…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM