Tuesday, September 4, 2007

The Mitchell and Dewbury Band: Beyond the Rains


My main album this summer (besides Soil and Pimp) has been the Mitchell and Dewbury band's new album "Beyond the Rain". The music is strictly jazz and soul, but is also great for the dancefoor. The whole thing really swings from beginning to end, with a coulple of tracks on the funk tip and a couple that really bump for the dancefloor. The duo is a UK based DJ and jazz head Russ Dewbury and producer and DJ Ben Mitchell. The songs are a collection of some new work and a few tracks from their first album "Rapping with the Gods" that they revisited for those who may have missed them the first go round. The album is ablsolutely incredible, I mean every track is banging, so i've been having a hard time deciding what tracks to post. My favorite track though features the group "Fertile Ground" out of Baltimore who is one of my favoite bands (i'll have to make a Fertile Ground tribut post next) of the last 10 years so it was no question that I was going to like the album. Most of the songs on the album feature guests, mostly vocalists, and include heavywieght jazz cat Terry Callier on the song "Darker than a Shadow", probably the most downtempo of the songs on the album. After long deliberation i've decided to post "Spaces and Places" featuring Fertile Ground and "Kaleidoscope (Wheel WIthin a Wheel)" featuring Lizzie Rendall.

On a side note, isn't it kind a weird coincidence that two fo my favorite tracks from this summer (see the Soil and Pimp post) are titled "Wheel within a Wheel" and are both original compositios? Makes you go hmmm.... doesn't it?

Download:
The Mitchell and Dewbury Band - "Spaces and Places" featuring Fertile Ground
The Mitchell and Dewbury Band - "Kaleidoscope (Wheel WIthin a Wheel)" featuring Lizzie Rendall

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