The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Beyond The Rains

Beyond The Rains is made in the best traditions of the long lost art of album making. With its affinity with the past, a lust for the future and plenty of natural soul, Mitchell & Dewbury have created a modern classic.

It's an essential blend of soul, jazz, funk and Latin united by a positive spirit. Russ Dewbury is the sole power behind the Jazz Rooms, Britain's longest running club session, attracting aficionados from the farthest corners of the earth with its unique blend of deep jazz, cosmic soul and Afro-Latin rhythms mixed together with the current musical mores. He is also the man responsible for Brighton's world famous Jazz Bops. As a DJ, Dewbury is also one of Britain's leading antiquarians of black music. His compilations of forgotten treasures, carefully dusted down and lovingly restored, have become must-own material for music lovers everywhere. He has worked with such jazz luminaries as Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders and also folk-jazz legend Terry Callier, whom Dewbury managed.

This album features an International line up including Terry Callier, Navasha Daya and James Collins of Baltimore soul-jazz outfit Fertile Ground, cult Philadelphian-born jazz flautist Lawrence Jones; vocalists Billie Godfrey and Lizzie Rendall, bass player Jeff'The Funk'Walker, pianist Mark Edwards, Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo (one-time student of Fela Kuti), Brazils Drumagick and Germanys Hypnosis & Marc Frank. Beyond The Rains is one of those rare albums that succeeds in bringing clarity and relevance out of a melting pot of diversity - united and driven always by an uplifting theme and an optimistic view.

Above all, Beyond The Rains evokes memories of the way albums used to be lovingly written and constructed and should be listened to from start to finish. The spirit of an old album, a journey, with a beginning, a middle and an end. From when you put the first track on, you should know that you can't cherry pick this album. The much mourned album art is not lost - it is alive and well, and living in Brighton.

Tracklist

1. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Beyond The Rains featuring Billie Godfrey listen
2. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Rapping With The Gods listen
3. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Love Is Flowing To Love featuring Billie Godfrey listen
4. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Spaces & Places featuring Fertile Ground listen
5. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Darker Than A Shadow with Terry Callier listen
6. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Kaleidoscope (Wheel Within A Wheel) featuring Lizzie Rendall listen
7. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - My Words with Hipnosis & Marc Frank listen
8. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Globetrotter listen
9. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Living…Am I Living featuring Bukky Leo listen
10. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Jazz Is Your Life listen
11. The Mitchell & Dewbury Band - Beyond The Rains (Drumagick Remix)