*JUST IN!* Bangs & Talbot – Back To Business – Acid Jazz UK LP

The new album from Bangs & Talbot – ‘Back To Business’ is ready for preorder.

Acid Jazz have a long history with Chris (who coined the term ‘acid jazz’) and Mick (founding member of the Style Council), who appeared on one of the label’s earliest and rarest singles as ‘King Truman’ back in 1988.

‘How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)’ is an instrumental cover of Marvin Gaye’s 1964 Motown classic. This reading of the song has a shuffle groove and features uber rhythms from Brand New Heavies’ guitarist Simon Bartholomew. As Bangs put it, “we wanted to put a different slant on the tune, small combo vibe with a Wurlitzer piano lead. We were thinking of getting a vocalist to sing the tune but it’s been done that way so many times.”

‘Back To Business’ is an exhilarating, contemporary fusion of timeless genres on an album that perfectly distils all these sounds to create the ultimate-sounding Acid Jazz record by two legends of the scene.

tracklist:

A1 Back To Business
A2 Sumthin’ Else
A3 Surf’n’turf
A4 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved …
A5 Stingray (Live at PJ’s)
A6 Kookie T
A7 It’s Alright (Instrumental)

B1 Leela’s Dance
B2 Blue Jeans
B3 Goody Goody
B4 Pick’n’mick’s
B5 Jerk Chicken
B6 Blues Walk