Brand New Heavies return with new album

Acid jazz stalwarts Brand New Heavies return with their first full studio album in six years.

Anita Awbi
  • By Anita Awbi
  • 6 Mar 2013
  • min read
The band, who have been integral to London’s new funk and jazz scene for more than two decades, will celebrate the release with a headline show on 10 May at Koko, London.

The first single Sunlight features original vocal collaborator N’Dea Davenport and will be released on 15 April.

The founding trio of Jan Kincaid (drums/keys), Simon Bartholomew (guitar) and Andrew Love Levy (bass) were influential in creating what became known as the acid jazz scene of the early Nineties. Their musical cannon includes 16 Top 40 singles and album sales of more than two million.

Kincaid said: ‘We’ve been together so long that we have the grounding and the history. We started as a live band and did it hard, just playing clubs, pubs, anywhere that would have us for a long time before we got a record deal. We weren’t just centred around a record, and that’s the way it should be.’