August 7, 2006
Brand New Heavies Streaming Now and Free
They are back with a vengeance. So said The Hollywood Reporters Craig Rosen in his glowing May 7, 2006 review of The Brand New Heavies sizzling performance at the legendary Roxy Nightclub in Los Angeles.
In the early 1990s, London-based The Brand New Heavies created a musical movement by bringing soul music back to live instrumentation and impassioned vocals. Sassy, soulful and emotive vocalist NDea Davenport, guitarist Simon Bartholomew, drummer/keyboardist Jan Kinkaid and bassist Andrew Love Levy built their sound around the music they loved: classic American funk and soul music. The bands infectious grooves and inspiring songs — including Never Stop, Stay This Way and Dream On Dreamer — set in motion a 1990s musical revolution that permeates throughout the neo soul sound of today.
Freshly reunited after an extensive layoff, the group has returned with a renewed sense of purpose for Get Used To It. The masterful collection skillfully blends the classic live funk and soul sound that was the signature of the group when they came out with their stunning self-titled debut album 15 years ago. Recorded and produced in New York and London, Get Used To It will be available simultaneously at Starbucks Company-operated locations in the U.S. and Canada as well as traditional retail.
The Heavies spell out their musical mission on Get Used To Its delightfully festive Right On, as Davenport sings: Bring back the funk in music/Put back the funk in music. With stellar horn arrangements and a fluid bass groove, the tune is equal parts mantra and declaration. Elsewhere, the dreamily addictive Love Is starts out with a tentative Davenport questioning the worth of her relationship before concluding that love is what you make it. She then ponders the reason for her devotion to her cheating beau on the impassioned Dont Know Why (I Love You).
Whether Davenport sings about the joy of love, the pain of a fractured relationship or her allegiance to music, the Heavies striking arrangements make for sonic nirvana. Their precise mix of percussion, horns, keyboards, guitars, piano and bass, as well as Davenports memorable vocals, makes Get Used To It a taut, exhilarating musical experience.
The Heavies triumphant return marks the reemergence of one of the most innovative, influential R&B and funk groups of the last 15-plus years. In the mid-1980s, after bonding over their love of American funk and soul music, notably James Brown and the Meters, Bartholomew, Kinkaid and Levy formed the Brand New Heavies as an instrumental outfit. A few years later, the group found its voice with the addition of Davenport.
In 1991, the group scored a No. 3 R&B hit with Never Stop, a highlight from its self-titled debut album. The groups second album, 1992s Heavy Rhyme Experience: Vol. 1, featured the group pairing with such red-hot rappers as Grand Puba, Kool G. Rap and Gang Starrs Guru, among others. The album solidified the groups standing in both the rap and R&B worlds.
It made perfect sense, Kinkaid told the UKs Ilford Recorder of Heavy Rhyme Experience in April 2006. Hip-hop kids loved all the old samples and suddenly they could see this new band playing the funk just like they heard it on their old albums.
The groups third album, 1994s Brother Sister, continued the momentum with big crossover hits Dream On Dreamer, Midnight At The Oasis and Back To Love. A tremendous run of critical acclaim and four Top 20 hits — Never Stop, Stay This Way (1991), Dream on Dreamer (1994) and Sometimes (1997) — established the Heavies as a creative and commercial force whose influence helped birth the neo soul movement, the acclaimed artistic explosion of the mid 1990s that included DAngelo, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and a host of others.
So, now that the group has reunited, its no wonder the new album is called Get Used To It. The Brand New Heavies are back and as good as ever.
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