The ugly and tasteless (butter free) front cover picked me up for 2 euros . I had not any bigger expectations when starting to listen to this, but... hey, this is tight funky horn rock near my taste. Of course Chicago comes to my mind first, but there are even some zappaish moments and vocalist Schuylar "Sky" Ford on some parts sings a bit like Czeslaw Niemen on "Behind The Wall". One could say he doesn't sing naturally, when trying too much, but i think it works anyway. Gotham is not a typical pure horn rock band but a tight funky jazz and rock band too. The band plays seamlessly together. Among the others there are some jazzy nice melodic almost Miles Davis style trumpet passages like "Window Pane". "Moon" after "Window Pane" is a short avant and stylish mess. "Moon" makes way for "They Made Me An Outlaw", which is an acoustic guitar driven melodic s-sw track. "Daddy Left Me Home" is bluesy a bit boring standard piece and without nice guitar lines "Talking About" would be that too. Too funky and fast "Getting High" does not get me very high. Gotham is eight professional musicians who have played for example with these: James Brown, Blues Magoos, Bo Didley, The Orchids, Asylum, Gas Mask, Young Rascalla, Woody Herman... Album was produced by Tom Wilson.
The ugly and tasteless (butter free) front cover picked me up for 2 euros . I had not any bigger expectations when starting to listen to this, but... hey, this is tight funky horn rock near my taste. Of course Chicago comes to my mind first, but there are even some zappaish moments and vocalist Schuylar "Sky" Ford on some parts sings a bit like Czeslaw Niemen on "Behind The Wall". One could say he doesn't sing naturally, when trying too much, but i think it works anyway. Gotham is not a typical pure horn rock band but a tight funky jazz and rock band too. The band plays seamlessly together. Among the others there are some jazzy nice melodic almost Miles Davis style trumpet passages like "Window Pane". "Moon" after "Window Pane" is a short avant and stylish mess. "Moon" makes way for "They Made Me An Outlaw", which is an acoustic guitar driven melodic s-sw track. "Daddy Left Me Home" is bluesy a bit boring standard piece and without nice guitar lines "Talking About" would be that too. Too funky and fast "Getting High" does not get me very high. Gotham is eight professional musicians who have played for example with these: James Brown, Blues Magoos, Bo Didley, The Orchids, Asylum, Gas Mask, Young Rascalla, Woody Herman... Album was produced by Tom Wilson.
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