Melt Yourself Down

Niemal gwiezdny skład Melt Yourself Down z udziałem członków Transglobal Underground, Heliocentrics nie rozczarowuje.

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Melt Yourself Down is the sound of Cairo ‘57, Cologne ‘72, New York ‘78, London 2013. North and south and east and west. Horns blowing, drums vibrating, a suffocating fever dream. Primal. Vital.

This is: a journey across an ocean of sweat to a golden obelisk. In its airless catacombs, the house band from hell. MYD. Making music you can see, sounds you can smell. Vibrations you can taste. Rhythms to rearrange your DNA.

This is: a modal map, a burning passport, a trip, a banquet, a broadcast, a protest, a party, a ritual. A broadcast political. This is: music mined and hewn. Blasted and blown. A tribal war cry.

Hoodoo voodoo? They do, you do. They call it a debut. Fierce funk and punk and detonated jazz. Rhythms to rearrange the DNA. Five senses being ripped by six souls across seven continents on eight songs. Live, they’re a tropical storm lit by full-frontal fireworks, carried by a finger-pointing, proselytising equatorial preacherman spitting fire and brimstone calls that demand a response. Their message: Melt Yourself Down and turn yourself up. Get out of it and get into it.

Finally the fever breaks. The sound of moaning. Breathing. Chests heaving. Twelve white eyes, blinking. This is: imagination. Communication. Liberation. It’s just the beginning.

Featuring members of Transglobal Underground, Heliocentrics and Zun Zun Egui, and not least the saxophone virtuosity of Acoustic Ladyland's Pete Wareham, Melt Yourself Down's stellar line-up does not disappoint, distilling a music that is brimming with ideas, energy and vitality — a veritable one band festival full of colour and sonic restlessness derived from afrobeat, jazz and an enormous sense of melody. This is an audacious and brave artistic statement, and yet one handled with care and a cultured deftness, allowing the sprawl to retain both a sense of focus and some seriously memorable tunes.Limited Vinyl with CD Version

Mastered At – Black Saloon Studios

Bass Guitar – Ruth Goller

Drums – Tom Skinner

Electronics – Leafcutter John

Mastered By – Mandy Parnell

Percussion – Satin Singh

Tenor Saxophone – Shabaka Hutchings

Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone – Pete Wareham

Vocals – Kushal Gaya