The Mitchell & Dewbury Band
"Beyond The Rains
Out Now on Mr Bongo Records 2007 - buy and listen here
1 Beyond the Rains
2 Rapping with the Gods
3 Love is flowing to love
4 Spaces and Places
5 Darker than a Shadow
6 Globetrotter
7 Living am i living
8 Jazz is your life
9 Kaleidoscope (Wheel within a Wheel)
10 Hypnosis - My Words d & b mix
11Beyond the Rains - Drumagick mix
Following their first Rapping With The Gods LP, the Brighton based due of Ben Mitchell and Russ Dewbury return with a killer album.
The Mitchell & Dewbury Band
Beyond The Rains
(Mr Bongo Records)
Beyond The Rains is made in the best traditions of the long lost art of album making. With its affinity with the past, a lust for the future and plenty of natural soul, Mitchell & Dewbury have created a modern classic.
It's an essential blend of soul, jazz, funk and Latin united by a positive spirit.
Russ Dewbury is the sole power behind The Jazz Rooms, Britain's longest running club session, attracting aficionados from the farthest corners of the earth with its unique blend of deep jazz, cosmic soul and Afro-Latin rhythms mixed together with the current musical mores. He is also the man responsible for Brighton's world famous Jazz Bops. As a DJ, Dewbury is also one of Britain's leading antiquarians of black music. His compilations of forgotten treasures, carefully dusted down and lovingly restored, have become must-own material for music lovers everywhere. He has worked with such jazz luminaries as Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders and also folk-jazz legend Terry Callier, whom Dewbury managed.
Ben Mitchell is a producer, remixer and DJ playing worldwide. He records under the guise of Sao Benitez, also remixing Masters At Work, Seu Jorge Jimi Hendrix, and Hammond legend Jimmy Smith. Mitchell is the founder member of Mr Hermano, whose second album “Free As The Morning Sun” was released in 2002 and also produced a track with Dom Um Romao. As a musician and engineer he has recorded with Arthur Baker, Dusty Springfield and The Harlem Gospel Singers, and has also worked with Faze Action and Lo-Fidelity All-stars to name a few from a career spanning more than 15 years. Recent work in the production chair includes Terry Callier, Beverley Knight and Bukky Leo's Black Egypt albums.
Beyond The Rains features an International line up including Terry Callier, Navasha Daya and James Collins of Baltimore soul-jazz outfit Fertile Ground, cult Philadelphian-born jazz flautist Lawrence Jones; vocalists Billie Godfrey and Lizzie Rendall, bass player Jeff'The Funk'Walker, Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo (one-time student of Fela Kuti), Brazils Drumagick and Germanys Hypnosis.
Enjoy the ride!
The Mitchell&Dewbury Band
For Remix, DJ or live enquiries email ben@mrbongo.com
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