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Bristling Heavy Funk with shades of afro-beat, soul jazz, house and even distorted rock dot the fifth release from Britain's most dangerous heavy funk quartet. The 5th element Rob Lavers joins on sax and flute, grooving seemlessly with guitarist Eddie Roberts and B3 burner Bob Birch. Messers Pete Shand and Simon Allen serve up a heavy dose of phat bass and drums that keep the arrangements grooving and twisting through the thick funk forest only the New Mastersounds can guide you through. The band has been touring the US doing the festival and jamband club circuit laying down 3 hour sets and 5 hour gigs, running through dozens of rare funk and soul jazz gems with sits ins with members of the Meters, Galactic, Phish, Papa Mali, Karl Denson and the Greyboy Allstars. Voted THE BAND to see in 2007 by Jambase.com, its clear the band has made a mark on the funk scene inside the jamband circcuit and may have delivered their best album yet. The New Mastersounds continue to find new hooks and grooves that deliver pure vintage sounds with their unmistakeable trademark. It just keeps getting better-!" - - - Sugar Daddy - 12-08-06 Twelve Galaxies, San Francisco, CA ---- ---- This is the 5th New Mastersounds release on 3 on the B Records (Chicago)