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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – The Serpent’s Mouth (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:18 minutes | 504 MB | Genre: Soul, R&B
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- Songs We Love: Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, 'Was Dog A Doughnut' The steel drum tradition is unfairly maligned. The mysterious Hamburg group takes Cat Stevens' pioneering electro jam and replaces synths with steel.
- Find Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band discography, albums and singles on AllMusic.
- German funkateer Bjorn Wagner launched the Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band in 2007 following months spent learning to play steel drums during an extended stay in Trinidad and Tobago. 11 years on, Wagner and his trusty backing band return with album number two, 'The Serpent's Mouth'.
- Surprised the steel drums weren't recorded louder. Sounded like they were drowned out for most the record.
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band. Its 45 friday. Here‘s our take on #mobbdeep ‘s Burn. When we recorded it, we were looking forward to play it to #prodigy which sadly did not happen due to his untimely passing. We decided to finish it and pay homage. Rest in power P. The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is a pet project of the German instrumental group the Mighty Mocambos, a practiced collective that makes versatile deep funk. Bacao is a vehicle for bandleader.
Following up on the massive worldwide success of their debut album 55, Bacao Rhythm & Steel band is back with another heavy duty offering. Picking up where they left off and incorporating a ton of new recording techniques they take a huge step forward with The Serpent’s Mouth. Named after the eight-mile strait between the island of Trinidad and the coast of Venezuela, The Serpent’s Mouth is a journey through both originals and covers, combining classic elements that wide-eared music fans already know, and mashing them up in new and unique ways.
Take “1 Thing” – on it, the group attacks the galloping, chopped Amerie smash hit, with singing pans that follow the R & B vocal. The sound is crisp and up-front, arguably more muscular than the 2005 original. On “Great To Be Here,” they take on the Jackson 5 B-Boy favorite (which stretches back to the Zulu Nation / Bronx block party days) – uncoincidentally, the original version featured a guitar lick that emulated a steel pan run. Here, it gets an even more pulsating groove, adding open-drums breaks throughout, to get DJs salivating. The group veers through more inventively-constructed covers as the album’s sequence continues, including Gang Starr’s “All For The Cash”; Mary J. Blige’s “I Love You”; and the recently unleashed first single, “XXplosive” and “Burn,” paying tribute to both Dr. Dre and Mobb Deep for a bi-coastal funk party. And, as band leader Bjorn Wagner states, “My favorite cover on the album is probably ‘Crockett Theme,’ which is the theme to ‘Miami Vice.’ I always loved the melody, and the cosmic vibe of the song, and I was honestly surprised that it worked without synthesizers.”
This time around the group’s originals are even stronger, as evidenced by cuts like the flute-fueled break-fest of “Hoola Hoop”; the slow and spacey “Touchdown”; and the album’s title track, the future-epic-adventure-movie-soundtrack cut “The Serpent’s Mouth.” Wagner explains, “I wrote the song with Bernhard Hummer as an instrumental fantasy story – think of pirates, smugglers and a dangerously beautiful sea passage towards the island. It became an allegory for our mind travels into the world of the steel pan.”
The Serpent’s Mouth is sure to please past fans and newly-minted ones alike. It seems like a new era for Steel Drum music is upon us, and Bacao is firmly leading the way into the hearts of music fans around the world. Another Big Crown Records Sureshot…
Tracklist:
1. Xxplosive 03:21
2. Touchdown 02:34
3. Burn 02:24
4. Real Hot 02:43
5. Hoola-Hoop 03:50
6. Crockett Theme 03:51
7. 1 Thing 02:26
8. Great to Be Here 03:04
9. Bocas Del Dragon 03:09
10. All for the Cash 02:37
11. Maracas Bay Boogie 03:51
12. Bushfire 02:51
13. I Love You 03:50
14. The Serpents Mouth 04:47
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| Origin | Hamburg, Germany |
|---|---|
| Genres | funk steelpan |
| Years active | 2007-present |
| Labels | Big Crown Records |
| Associated acts | The Mocambos |
| Members | Ben Greenslade-Stanton, Björn Wagner |
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band is a German funk music ensemble founded by members of the Mighty Mocambos.
History[edit]
Bandleader Björn Wagner played in funk group The Mocambos and lived in Trinidad and Tobago for a time, where he studied steel drums and had one custom made.[1] The group released its first 7' single, consisting of two covers of songs by The Meters, in 2007. Shortly after this they followed up with another 7' single, a cover of the 50 Cent hit 'P.I.M.P.'.[2] Several more 7' records were released in the mid-2010s. Some of these singles were collected on the group's first full-length, 55, which was released by the Brooklyn label Big Crown in 2016.[3][4] The album included several new originals as well as the cover of 'P.I.M.P.' and covers of John Holt's 'Police in Helicopter', Dennis Coffey's 'Scorpio', Faith Evans's 'Love Like This', and Cat Stevens's 'Was Dog a Doughnut'.[1]
Discography[edit]
- Albums
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- 55 (Big Crown, 2016)
- The Serpent's Mouth (Big Crown, 2018)
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- Singles
- 'Look-Ka-Py-Py'/'Ease Back' (Mocambo, 2007)
- 'PIMP' (Mocambo, 2008)
- 'Bacao Suave' (Plane Jane, 2014)
- 'Jungle Fever' (Plane Jane, 2015)
- 'Love Like This' (Big Crown, 2016)
- 'Scorpio'/'8th Wonder' (Big Crown, 2016)
References[edit]
- ^ abAlbum review, Pitchfork Media, May 13, 2016.
- ^Album Review, Exclaim!. May 13, 2016.
- ^Songs We Love: Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, 'Was Dog a Doughnut'. NPR, May 27, 2016.
- ^New Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band LP, 55. Wax Poetics, May 17, 2016.