The New Mastersounds
Hallowbaloo Street Festival:
Saturday, October 29th
FREE Show!!
The Loloweeny Stage - 7pm
Reviews
"The New Mastersounds sent a sell-out crowd on a trip of a lifetime at Eden last Saturday with a mind-blowing cocktail of soul, jazz and funk... The four musicians that make up The New Mastersounds have an instinctive understanding of each other's playing... This understanding and their ability to communicate with so many people with so few words is a wonderful thing to experience and the band's live performance on the night was simply out of this world. If you don't already own a copy of The New Mastersounds new album, Be Yourself, believe me you need to, but be warned, it's so addictive you'll never want to turn it off." -CORNISH GUARDIAN 06/03/2004
Review of The New Mastersounds Masterology Album: “Unlike most of the artists at the top of the Billboard R&B heap, The New Mastersounds aren't dependent on computers to generate booty shaking beats. Rather, they take the radical step of employing a drummer and bassist (Simon Allen and Pete Shand) who could turn bricks to jelly.” Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. –THE FREE PRESS Kinston, NC 01/20/2011. Hey, when your funk album gets 4 out of 5 stars from Maceo Parker’s hometown paper, we consider that a BIG deal!
Hallowbaloo Street Festival:
Saturday, October 29th
FREE Show!!
The Loloweeny Stage - 7pm
Reviews
"The New Mastersounds sent a sell-out crowd on a trip of a lifetime at Eden last Saturday with a mind-blowing cocktail of soul, jazz and funk... The four musicians that make up The New Mastersounds have an instinctive understanding of each other's playing... This understanding and their ability to communicate with so many people with so few words is a wonderful thing to experience and the band's live performance on the night was simply out of this world. If you don't already own a copy of The New Mastersounds new album, Be Yourself, believe me you need to, but be warned, it's so addictive you'll never want to turn it off." -CORNISH GUARDIAN 06/03/2004
Review of The New Mastersounds Masterology Album: “Unlike most of the artists at the top of the Billboard R&B heap, The New Mastersounds aren't dependent on computers to generate booty shaking beats. Rather, they take the radical step of employing a drummer and bassist (Simon Allen and Pete Shand) who could turn bricks to jelly.” Rating: 4 out of 5 stars. –THE FREE PRESS Kinston, NC 01/20/2011. Hey, when your funk album gets 4 out of 5 stars from Maceo Parker’s hometown paper, we consider that a BIG deal!
“They did it again, they never seem to fail, they've got to be one of the tightest bands in the business right now. The New Mastersounds always seem to deliver with flawless precision.” –LISTEN UP DENVER 03/17/2011
“The New Mastersounds delve into extended groove sessions with such expertise and energy that the funky yet melodious songs all but force audiences to dance.” –THE POST & COURIER 07/02/2009
Hallowbaloo Preview
Musically, when you think of the British Invasion, funk isn’t exactly the first category to come to mind. Yet, this band from Leeds, England, is considered one of the top bands in the world by droves of American funk aficionados. The New Mastersounds pleased a live New Orleans crowd so much this year that a five-song digital EP from that session comes with any order off the band’s official website. That’s some major love from The Pelican State, a locale considered by most to be the funk capital of the universe.
A considerable portion of that affection is for certain attributable to the fact that NMS are not New Orleans copy cats. Rather they have a unique soul sound that stays far away from New Orleans’ focus on the back beat (i.e. accentuated bass-drum exploits) and grizzly, fat bass lines. NMS’ sound has a decidedly British feel with every lead and bass guitar note delivered with razor-sharp clarity and precision, and rapid fire snare licks dominating the groove and propelling it to blistering pace. The other reason New Orleanians have shown so much love for NMS is that the band is just plain exceptional – tightly intertwining every instrument into a rhythmic tidal wave that blows you into oblivion.
Having been together for just more than a decade, the current line-up consists of guitarist and producer Eddie Roberts, drummer Simon Allen, bassist Pete Shand and keyboardist Joe Tatton. NMS has had the chance to collaborate or play with music greats Corrine Bailey Rae, James Taylor, Andy Smith of Portishead, Maceo Parker, George Porter, Jr. of The Meters, Art Neville and so many more. UK magazine 24-7 writes, “Without shame this reviewer holds the NMS brand of funk as the best this country has to offer ... all four members have the all-important element of soul, are ridiculously talented and gig relentlessly honing their art ... if you’re not a fan, then why the hell not? Modern soul jazz and funk at its very best.”
On August 9th of this year, NMS released its first album ever recorded stateside, called Breaks from the Border. Growth of the already hyper-skilled band can be heard with its use of group vocal stylings, a first for NMS who has in the past, always kept things completely instrumental.
If their hit album, 102%, doesn’t compel you to check these guys out in concert, maybe Listen Up Denver can convince you with this review of an NMS live performance on 03/16/2011: “They did it again, they never seem to fail, they’ve got to be one of the tightest bands in the business right now. The New Mastersounds always seem to deliver with flawless precision.”
How can you argue with that?
“The New Mastersounds delve into extended groove sessions with such expertise and energy that the funky yet melodious songs all but force audiences to dance.” –THE POST & COURIER 07/02/2009
Hallowbaloo Preview
Musically, when you think of the British Invasion, funk isn’t exactly the first category to come to mind. Yet, this band from Leeds, England, is considered one of the top bands in the world by droves of American funk aficionados. The New Mastersounds pleased a live New Orleans crowd so much this year that a five-song digital EP from that session comes with any order off the band’s official website. That’s some major love from The Pelican State, a locale considered by most to be the funk capital of the universe.
A considerable portion of that affection is for certain attributable to the fact that NMS are not New Orleans copy cats. Rather they have a unique soul sound that stays far away from New Orleans’ focus on the back beat (i.e. accentuated bass-drum exploits) and grizzly, fat bass lines. NMS’ sound has a decidedly British feel with every lead and bass guitar note delivered with razor-sharp clarity and precision, and rapid fire snare licks dominating the groove and propelling it to blistering pace. The other reason New Orleanians have shown so much love for NMS is that the band is just plain exceptional – tightly intertwining every instrument into a rhythmic tidal wave that blows you into oblivion.
Having been together for just more than a decade, the current line-up consists of guitarist and producer Eddie Roberts, drummer Simon Allen, bassist Pete Shand and keyboardist Joe Tatton. NMS has had the chance to collaborate or play with music greats Corrine Bailey Rae, James Taylor, Andy Smith of Portishead, Maceo Parker, George Porter, Jr. of The Meters, Art Neville and so many more. UK magazine 24-7 writes, “Without shame this reviewer holds the NMS brand of funk as the best this country has to offer ... all four members have the all-important element of soul, are ridiculously talented and gig relentlessly honing their art ... if you’re not a fan, then why the hell not? Modern soul jazz and funk at its very best.”
On August 9th of this year, NMS released its first album ever recorded stateside, called Breaks from the Border. Growth of the already hyper-skilled band can be heard with its use of group vocal stylings, a first for NMS who has in the past, always kept things completely instrumental.
If their hit album, 102%, doesn’t compel you to check these guys out in concert, maybe Listen Up Denver can convince you with this review of an NMS live performance on 03/16/2011: “They did it again, they never seem to fail, they’ve got to be one of the tightest bands in the business right now. The New Mastersounds always seem to deliver with flawless precision.”
How can you argue with that?
