… in discovering this New York supergroup and its firstling (yeah, it is an english word) from 2008, so humbly I won’t even describe them in my words: “The Menahan Street Band is a collaboration of musicians from Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings (Dave Guy, Homer Steinweiss, Fernando Velez, Bosco Mann), El Michels Affair (Leon Michels, Toby Pazner), Antibalas (Nick Movshon, Aaron Johnson) and the Budos Band (Mike Deller, Daniel Fodder), brought together by musician/producer Thomas Brenneck (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Budos Band, Amy Winehouse) to record hits in the bedroom of his Menahan St. apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn. With influences reaching beyond the funk/soul/afrobeat architecture of their other projects into the more ethereal realms of Curtis Mayfield and Mulatu Astatke, the Menahan Street Band creates a unique new instrumental soul sound that is as raw as it is lush.”

Lush and raw it is. Listen to it on hypemachine.

Die Dapkings zeigen in diesem lustigen Video ihr selbst gebautes Studio. Trauriger Anlass, sich die wunderbare Tanzmusik der Sharon Jones und ihrer Dapkings wieder anzuhören: Heute früh mussten sie feststellen, dass über Nacht jemand in ihr mühsam in Eigenregie aufgebautes Heim eingebrochen ist und einiges an Mikrofonen, Instrumenten, Verstärkern und Studioequipment gestohlen hat. Nein, sie waren nicht versichert.