 Исполнитель: The Hot 8 Brass BandНазвание альбома: On The Spot Год выпуска: 2017 Формат файлов: MP3@320K/s Размер архива: 160,6 MB Скачать с: depositfiles
02. Get It How You Live 06:38
03. Bottom of the Bucket 06:49
04. On the Spot 05:31
05. St. James Infirmary 08:04
06. That Girl 06:18
07. Sweetest Taboo 06:54
08. Annie Mae 04:14
09. Working Together 04:08
10. Can’t Nobody Get Down 06:42
11. Keepin' It Funky 06:36
The title of the new album refers to the glorious, rare moment in a New Orleans parade when the band stops to take a break but keeps noodling with their instruments for the crowd. Vibing, keeping the energy up, when they’re completely in the moment they sync up and the magic happens – a new tune is created: On the Spot. Buzzing with the spontaneous synchronicity which has fuelled their development from the streets of their hometown to the forefront of the global scene over two decades, their fifth LP sees Hot 8 committing this live sound and spirit to record like never before – note the exclamation captured on tape at end of the title track: “Did we just make that up?!”
On the Spot also points to the way Hot 8 have had to adapt, learn and live from moment to moment throughout their career, and their lives. A barely imaginable series of trials – the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the separate deaths of five band members, and trumpeter Terrell “Burger” Batiste losing his legs in a car crash – have tested these men time and again. Their tragic yet life-affirming story has been featured in the Spike Lee documentaries When the Levees Broke and The Creek Don’t Rise, and David Simon’s HBO series Treme; recent interviews with Mary Anne Hobbs (6Music) and BBC World Service’s Outlook chimed especially intensely with listeners in the midst of the Black Lives Matter movement.
In true Hot 8 style, this album pairs hard-hitting, heart-on-sleeve sentiment with party-fuelling beats, hooks and grooves; raw funk and charismatic hip hop vocals mix with Big Easy jazz elegance. These 11 tracks have helped the band get through their up and down moments; ‘On the Spot’ honours fallen friends and the city of New Orleans, and showcases new heights achieved after coming back from the deepest lows. “We still break down a lot,” says bandleader and tuba player Bennie Pete, “but now it’s tears of joy. We keep everything in our hearts, but we keep on.”
A serious message from the street is delivered via a buoyant beat on“Get It How You Live”,and the loop-the-loop form of“Bottom of the Bucket” was inspired by trying to escape their trials and tribulations: “It’s like that story about crabs in a bucket”, says Pete. “One gets to the top and the others will bring him back down. We tried, but there was no one to help pull us out. So we had to do it on our own”. Percussion legend Alfred “Uganda” Roberts (a collaborator of Dr. John, Allen Toussaint and The Meters) graces the latter track, while the heartrendingly beautiful “St James Infirmary”, first learned in church, features the magic touch of Dr. Michael White, a prolific clarinettist from the traditional New Orleans culture.
The joyful “That Girl” taps a different part of their history: “We all love Stevie Wonder, and this is one of those tunes we’d heard coming out the boomboxes of our mamas”, says Pete. Further expanding their canon of inspired covers (which, of course, includes their legendary take on “Sexual Healing”), “Sweetest Taboo” brings a rugged take on the queen of smoothness, Sade; long-standing street tune “Annie Mae” was recorded in tribute to the inspirational Natalie Cole, and it appears here – as it does in Hot 8’s parade sets – back-to-back with the propulsive Frankie Beverly & Maze cover “Working Together”. The unshakable horn riffs of “Can’t Nobody Get Down”, and bubbling bass of “Keepin’ It Funky”,drop the listener right back in the centre of an electrifying Hot 8 party crowd.
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