Artist: Brand New Heavies
Genre(s):
Dance
Discography:
Elephantitis CD2
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
Elephantitis CD1
Year: 2007
Tracks: 14
Heavy Rhyme Experience Vol.1
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Pioneers of the London acid jazz view, the Brand New Heavies translated their dearest for the casimir Funk grooves of the 1970s into a advanced sound that carried the torch for classical soul in an epoch henpecked by rap. Formed in 1985 by drummer/keyboardist Jan Kincaid, guitar player Simon Bartholomew, and bassist/keyboardist Andrew Levy -- longtime school friends from the London suburb of Ealing -- the Brand New Heavies were in the beginning an subservient unit inspired by the James Brown and Meters records its members heard patch clubbing the rare groove scene in trend at the moment. The triad shortly began recording their own music, gaining tremendous exposure when their demo tracks were spun at the influential Cat in the Hat Club.
Finally adding a memorial tablet section, the Brand New Heavies built a cultus following end-to-end the London clubhouse circle, surviving the shift that sawing machine the rare rut shot fade in the ignite of bitter theater. After an earlier recording deal with Cooltempo yielded the unmarried "Got to Give," the Heavies -- now including vocalist Jay Ella Ruth -- signed with the fledgeling indie label Acid Jazz; recorded on a budget of just 8,000 pounds, the group's self-titled LP appeared in 1990 to firm critical applaud, resulting in a licensing handle with the American company Delicious Vinyl. With Ruth now kO'd of the band, Delicious Vinyl hand-picked N'dea Davenport as her successor, insisting the Heavies re-record tracks from their debut for their first U.S. elbow grease, also an eponymous release that appeared in 1992.
After scoring at house with "Dream Come True" and "Stick around This Way," the unmarried "Never Stop" presently landed on the American R&B charts, with the Heavies the first base British group to accomplish such a feat with a debut exclusive since Soul II Soul several years earlier; a subsequent New York functioning augmented by rappers Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) and MC Serch (3rd Bass) elysian the mathematical group to begin absorbing hip-hop, and that summertime they turn off Heavy Rhyme Experience, Vol. 1, an album including edgar Guest appearances by rappers including Main Source, Gang Starr, Grand Puba, and the Pharcyde. 1994's Brother Sister, which went pt in Britain, was Davenport's last recording with the Heavies in front start a solo career; she was replaced by singer Siedah Garrett in sentence for 1997's Shelter. Two years later, the group reappeared with a British best-of album entitled Trunk Funk: The Best of the Brand New Heavies; the claim was recycled the next class for an American compilation, Trunk Funk Classics: 1991-2000, which featured a new birdcall recorded with Davenport. In early 2006 it was proclaimed that Davenport would be reuniting with the group. A new album, Get Used to It, was released after that year and was followed by a tour of the U.K. and Europe.
Will Haven
