Menahan's Street Band - Make The Road by Walking

Menahan's Street Band
"Make The Road by Walking"



The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and The Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush. Their debut album, Make the Road by Walking will be released on Dunham Records, Brenneck’s new imprint of Daptone Records, a joint venture devoted to bringing the Menahan Street sound from Brenneck’s bedroom out into the world. The album is marked by eerily quirky arrangements, featuring vibes, horns, piano, organ, percussion and even a strange bling sound that Brenneck creates by tuning and plucking the strings of his guitar on the wrong side of the bridge. However, it is not the textures themselves that make the new sound of Menahan Street so exciting, but rather the way the sounds are incorporated into the heavy rhythms and bold melodies of the compositions.

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01. Make The Road By Walking
02. Tired Of Fighting
03. Home Again!
04. Montego Sunset
05. Karina
06. The Traitor
07. The Contender
08. Birds
09. Esma
10. Going The Distance


THE MENAHAN STREET BAND:

Tom Brenneck guitar,bass,drums,organ,piano
Homer Steinweiss drums
Nick Movshon bass,drums
Mike Deller piano,organ
Dave Guy trumpet
Leon Michels tenor sax,piano,organ,conga,flute

Featuring:
Gabe Roth bass
Toby Pazner vibraphones
Dan Foder bass
Fernando Velez Congas
The Gospel Queens:
Edna Johnson,Cynthia Langston,Bobbie Jean Gant

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