Illusions: Vinyl LP

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Label: Diamond West Records
Release Date: 13th November

Menahan Street Band are the standard bearers, the gold standard of the modern instrumental soul and funk band, with a lineup of Tommy Brenneck, Dave Guy, Nick Movshon, Leon Michels and Homer Steinweiss, they're a veritable supergroup. The funk behind the legendary Charles Bradley records are back with some scorching funk and luxurious soul. This is the good listening exquisetly crafted and with Arthur Verocai showing, you've got the finest strings in the known universe. 

Twenty years after forming in Tommy Brenneck’s Bushwick apartment, Menahan Street Band returns with Illusions, their fourth full-length album on Brenneck’s Diamond West Records. The band— Tommy Brenneck, Dave Guy, Nick Movshon, Leon Michels and Homer Steinweiss—have each pursued an array of projects in the years since. Brenneck has produced for Baby Rose, Rogê and Kirby, toured with The Budos Band and runs Diamond West Records and Studio. Guy plays trumpet with The Roots and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and has released his own solo album; Steinweiss has made his own solo record and, with Movshon, has worked across multiple platinum album projects; and Michels continues as El Michels Affair, runs Big Crown Records and has produced Grammy-winning and nominated albums for Clairo and Norah Jones.
Despite their many individual ventures, the group reunited with an energy Brenneck says felt like “the first time.” Recorded quickly and instinctively, Illusions blends Menahan’s signature guitar, horns and drums with arrangements by Brazilian legend Arthur Verocai, taking listeners on an instrumental travelogue that lets the mind wander. Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos contributes original artwork to the album’s otherworldly collection of music.

Tracklisting:
SIDE A
1. Palace of Illusions
2. Aurora Was Her Name
3. Gentleman’s Getaway
4. El-Onta’s Dance
5. Sound of Distant Thunder
SIDE B
6. The Emerald Courtyard
7. Crystal Crown
8. Another Magic Morning
9. There Before The Sun
10. City After City