Fila Brazillia - A Touch Of Cloth (1999)

Label: Twentythree
Catalog#: T 001
Format: CD
Country: UK
Released: 2001
Style: Future Jazz, Downtempo
Audio: APE / MP3; CBR; 320 Kbps
Size: 316 Mb / 127 Mb






Fila Brazillia: A Touch of Cloth

Fila Brazillia have been steadily releasing some of the finest most original and experimental music to come from these
Isles in the 1990s. Their style is almost impossible to pin down, but whether it verges towards the ambient or more dub-influenced, a staple element of funk presses on all sides. ‘A Touch Of Cloth’ their latest offering serves up 12 aesthetically pleasing tracks which pretty much defy any sensible categorization. It exudes a brash confidence from a band prepared to push their finely refined sound to the outer limits, embracing and encompassing the funkiest, most eclectic sounds of the twentieth century.

Quite simply, No one else in this galaxy creates songs like ‘one ridden pony’, which opens in a mysterious dub style before metamorphasizing into a full-on funk work out of Latino trumpets, jazzy keyboards and syncopated vocals. This is music of incredible imagination, and musical accomplishment which deserves a place in anyone’s record collection, sitting comfortably alongside Herbie hancock, Sly stone and Kraftwerk. Truly music to restore the faith in disciples of dance music everywhere. This album will be heard blasting from the speakers from the great dancefloor in the sky, where God truly is a DJ.

Steve Cobby and Dave McSherry are Fila Brazillia and that's about all we need to know. The music speaks for its self and that, it seems, is the way the band likes it. An underground following is building for this group, who may be known more for their remixes than actual album recordings on the U.K. label Pork. This will change! Remixes for the likes of Radiohead, Busta Rhymes, Unkle and Mixmaster Morris to name a few have resulted in tracks that always bring a new twist on the original.


Tracklisting:

01. The Bugs Will Bite. 4:56
02. Airlock Homes. 4:17
03. Ridden Pony. 3:18
04. Slow Light. 4:19
05. Swann Todd. 3:19
06. Snakeskin Bib. 5:16
07. XII. 2:04
08. Trivia. 3:53
09. Pigsblood And Chalk. 4:14
10. Dervish Controller. 4:37
11. Leonids. 8:16
12. Spores. 3:55

Credits:

Performer, Programmed By Fila Brazillia
Piano, Trumpet - Josef
Clarinet, Flute - Bernard Moss
Drums - Jason Moy
Drums - Danny Ward
Guitar - Gary Gillyett
Percussion - Aaron Gammon
Bass - Mike Scott
Drums - Gary Burroughs

Notes:

Originally released on (Fila's own) Tritone Recordings in 1999. Fila Brazillia had to change their label name because of legal reasons. The catalogue number stayed unchanged.
The original Tritone edition came in a digipack, the Twentythree version in a jewel case. Both discs are identical though.