Brand New Heavies (album)
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Brand New Heavies is the eponymous debut album by British
acid jazz
and funk
group the Brand New Heavies
. It was released in 1990 and featured virtually no vocals.
1992 US CD Version
1992 UK CD 828 333-2
2007 reissue CD (CDBGPD 187)
United Kingdom
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acid jazz
Acid jazz
Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...
and funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
group the Brand New Heavies
Brand New Heavies
The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.-Biography:The Brand New Heavies began in the 1980s as an instrumental acid jazz group called Brother International....
. It was released in 1990 and featured virtually no vocals.
Track listing
Standard Version- "BNH" - (5:55)
- "Gimme One of Those" - (3:43)
- "Dream Come True" - (4:53)
- "Put The Funk Back in It" - (3:26)
- "People Get Ready" - (3:47)
- "Ride in The Sky" - (3:20)
- "Sphynx" - (6:14)
- "Stay This Way" - (4:14)
- "Shake Down" - (4:20)
1992 US CD Version
- "BNH" - (5:55)
- "Dream Come True" - (4:53)
- "People Get Ready" - (3:47)
- "Never Stop" - (4:13)
- "Put The Funk Back in It" - (3:19)
- "Gimme One of Those" - (3:42)
- "Ride in The Sky" - (3:24)
- "Sphynx" - (4:47)
- "Stay This Way" - (5:43)
- "Shake Down" - (4:19)
1992 UK CD 828 333-2
- "Dream Come True" - (7:47)
- "Stay This Way" - (4:10)
- "People Get Ready" - (3:47)
- "Never StopNever Stop (Brand New Heavies song)A revamped version of the first album with vocals by N'Dea Davenport was then released, and the singles "Never Stop" was released including "Dream Come True" & "Stay This Way", all with Davenport on lead vocals, became hits on both sides of the Atlantic, with the latter becoming a music video...
" - (3:55) - "Put The Funk Back in It" - (3:20)
- "Don't Let It Go To Your Head" - (3:49)
- "BNH" - (4:28)
- "Ride in The Sky" - (3:43)
- "Gimme One of Those" - (3:43)
- "Sphynx" - (6:11)
- "Got to Give" - (4:26)
2007 reissue CD (CDBGPD 187)
- BHN - (5:53)
- Gimmie One Of Those - (3:40)
- Dream Come True - (4:52)
- Put the Funk Back In It - (3:19)
- People Get Ready - (4:02)
- Ride In The Sky - (3:19)
- Sphynx - (6:13)
- Stay This Way - (4:14)
- Shakedown - (4:16)
- Bonus Tracks
- Never Stop (featuring N'Dea Davenport) - (4:11)
- Rest Of Me - (4:22)
- Reality - (3:54)
- Mother's Tongue - (4:35)
- A Day At The Seaside - (3:36)
- Country Funkin' - (4:45)
- Never Stop - (4:44)
- Dream Come True (Original 1988 Version) - (5:22)
Personnel
The Brand New Heavies- Simon Bartholomew - Guitar & Vocals
- N'Dea DavenportN'Dea DavenportN'Dea Davenport is an American recording artist, dancer, performer and producer, best known for her work as a vocalist in the UK funk band, The Brand New Heavies, and her pioneering contributions to the genre of acid jazz.-Biography:...
(1991) - Vocals - Lascelles Gordon (1991) - Percussion & Guitar
- Jan Kincaid - Drums & Keyboards
- Jay Ella Ruth (1990) - Vocals
- Andrew Levy - Bass, Keyboards, Writer & Producer
- Jim Wellman (1991) - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax & Keyboards