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| MAMAYO - THE GAME
Musician Magazine Dec. 2004 ........Wishing to create a recording where character comes first and technology plays a supporting role, Yolanda - together with her husband Miles Bould on drums - hits the listener with a raw mix of dancefloor funk, soul and blues. .........If your heart lies in the grooves of hand crafted music, your whole body will be moved here. Top class. Bass Guitar magazine March 2005 ....The Game is a remarkable album conceived, written, arranged and produced by bassist Yolanda Charles. Yolanda has assembled a band populated by some of the best musicians and vocalists in the business, including drummer Miles Bould........In these times of over-produced girl and boy bands clogging up the charts, albums like this truly are a breath of fresh air. Highly recommended...... Straight No Chaser Magazine spring 2005 ……Vanessa Freeman's haunting vocals on ‘These Times’ and Shaun Escoffery’s rendition of ‘No Tomorrows’ is breathtaking…. Blues & Soul Magazine March 2005 .....It's a refreshingly eclectic brew, blending funk, soul and rock flavours. Carleen Anderson fronts the strident title track, which is powered by musucular funk-meets-rock dynamics. Shaun Escoffery also contributes a couple of impressive performances. Yolanda Charles's.....funky bass.....is an ever-present feature that gives "The Game" real cohesion. Well worth checking out. |   |
[J][a][z][z]_[n][o][t]_[J][a][z][z] website April/May 2005
....Yolanda is not only a talented bass and guitar player. She can also write, arrange and produce good songs…..things start to become really good with the funk-rock of The Game featuring Carleen Anderson as singer. Carleen also sings on the warm and mellow soul song Born To Love, which just happens to be one of the best songs Carleen has ever recorded….all in all Yolanda has surpassed herself with this highly recommendable album and she’s really a musician, songwriter and producer to watch out for. read the rest of the review | |
Dave Jennings – Melody Maker
To look at Goosebump is to wonder how on Earth these four distinctly looking individuals could possibly have ended up in the same band. Up front is the bug-eyed, flailing Barry Kinder, a rasping voiced non-stop action figure with the cartoon mock-menace of Faith No More’s Mike Patton. Beside him stands a gaunt looking creature resembling a young Peter Cushing. His name is Neil Black, and he’s busy producing an astonishing range of sounds-some melodic, some drastically dirty…out of a violin. There’s no guitar. None is necessary. There is however a rhythm section capable of great fluid ferocity. They sometimes sound like some of American alternative rock’s angry young men, but Goosebump don’t so much rage against the machine as laugh contemptuously at it. Goosebump are both original and very much of their time; alternatively serious and supremely silly. They’re 50’s kind of fun. Board their band-wagon now before it runs away out of control... |  |
| Peoplespeak Album
Review of Steps Ahead album Yin-Yang by Jon Newey
"…best cut by far is the darkly thematic 'Agitate the Gravel', which stems from the new UK fusion partnership PEOPLESPEAK whose eponymously titled debut is worthy of further investigation…" |  |
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