BUSTY AND THE BASS SHARE LIVE OF THE FLOOR VERSIONS OF TRACKS FROM FOREVER NEVER CARES, FILMED AND RECORDED AT BREAKGLASS STUDIOS
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Montreal indie collective Busty and the Bass return with a reimagination of their funk-pop single "Starstruck" (ft. Jordan Brown). The new version was filmed and recorded live off-the-floor in the band's Breakglass Studio, capturing the group's indelible connection as performers. Between the otherworldly falsetto vocals of Jordan Brown, the vibrant horn section, and Alistair Blu's charismatic hook, the song is an infectious groove, leaving you wanting more.
"Starstruck” (feat. Jordan Brown) (The Breakglass Version) is Part 1 of a series of three live performances filmed and recorded in collaboration with Montreal director/film-maker Guillaume Landry. “The track is an alternate take on the original version of the song and is generally more raw than the original,” the band says. “This version is live-off-the-floor and features the larger umbrella of musicians within the collective. Additionally, the track marks Jordan Brown’s shift from collective collaborator to a core member of Busty and the Bass.
“Landry’s vintage-styled video for the song matches effortlessly with the track’s themes of flashiness, glamour, and purity vs. corruption. His use of multiple frames throughout the video (with many shots taken from live show performances and backstage tour antics) gives the feeling of excess and requires several watch-throughs to internalize everything happening on screen."
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MORE ABOUT BUSTY AND THE BASS
For the Canadian-American soul-jazz collective Busty and the Bass, collaboration has always been at the forefront of their music. Formed at McGill University in Montreal over a decade ago, the group is now scattered across four North American cities from coast to coast. Yet, with a collaborative spirit at the heart of their third studio album, Forever Never Cares, the members have never been more connected.
Over the years, the group has collaborated with legendary artists George Clinton, Macy Gray, Earth Wind & Fire, Slum Village, and exciting new voices like Polaris Music Prize winners Cadence Weapon and Pierre Kwenders. Most recently, the group dropped a mini-album with Philadelphia poet and rapper STS. Despite such a strong history of partnerships, Forever Never Cares reshaped the band’s creative formula and redefined how they worked together a decade into their career.
After a founding member and primary songwriter left the band in 2022, the collective used the opportunity to re-approach their creative process for the first time in years. Songs would be brought to the group from individual members or smaller formations of two or three members writing together. Interestingly, more voices involved in the songwriting resulted in the group’s most refined output to date.
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Two previous studio albums, Uncommon Good (2017) and Eddie (2020), saw the band experiment with genres effortlessly changing styles song to song, from soul to funk to pop.
Forever Never Cares finds the collective both broadening and distilling their influences into a unified sound that is entirely their own. This is due in large part to founding member Christopher Vincent who engineered and mixed the album. Vincent found a sonic language that would compliment all of the disparate genres being stacked atop one another.
With soul and R&B as the album’s cornerstone, the record is sprinkled with cross-genre explorations. From the indie rock-inflected uptempo singles “All The Things I Couldn’t Say To You” and “Wandering Lies,” to slow-burn ballads like “Give Me A Smile” and “Never Get Enough,” to the celebratory pop-funk of “Starstruck” and “No Angels,” a touch of 70s singer-songwriter on “Smoke and the Pine” and “Holiday Drive,” and the psychedelic jazz explorations of “Far From Here” and “No Self Control” featuring saxophonist Terrace Martin, a frequent collaborator of Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper.
TOUR DATES
June 27 - Victoria, BC - TD Victoria International Jazz Fest
July 27 - Gatineau, QC - Gatineau Beer Festival
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