Name: The Fruit Basket
Brand: Solid Bronze

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SRLP1255305

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Vinyl with CD Version

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-09-20

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

4015698025880

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Solid Bronze

Genre GB

Funk / Soul

Label GB

Schnitzel

Delaware Valley's psychedelic funkateers Solid Bronze release their debut album The Fruit Basket after having great success with their first single release in June, The Invisible Man including the B-Side Dub Mix by Lee "Scratch" Perry. The album was recorded at a relaxed pace from Spring 2017 to Spring 2018 by Mickey Melchiondo (Ween, Dean Ween Group, Moistboyz) at his studio in Lambertville, NJ with additional tracking done by the core band members in their respective home studios. Melchiondo produced the record along with singer/songwriter Chris Harford and mastered by Tom Ruff (James Brown, Lester Young, Screaming Females) for Asbury Media in Asbury Park, NJ. The album also features several notable guests including guitarist Michael "Kidd Funkadelic" Hampton (Parliament, Funkadelic), saxophonist Dana Colley (Morphine), and Atlanta-based hip hop artist CLEW. Harford and Melchiondo added vocals and a range of instrumental touches. The end result sounds like the output of group twice the size of number actually involved, a massive nasty get-down groove with all players giving everything they've got. Drawing on so many diverse influences and featuring notoriously genre-bending musicians, it'd be as misleading to call The Fruit Basket a Funk record per se as pigeonholing it as Rock or R&amp;B. This music was designed to exist in its own time and space, not be crammed into any pre-existing mould.

The Fruit Basket

Music GB