Citrus Sun [2024] - Down For The Third Time [Dome]

From a forthcoming album "Anaconga" due on 14 June by Citrus Sun is the lead single, a cover of Bobby Caldwell's 1978 jazz funk gem "Down For The Third Time". It features one of our favourite UK based singers Natalie Duncan with Dominic Glover (trumpet) and Charlie Allen (guitar).

The album is conceived and produced by Incognito's Jean-Paul 'Bluey' Maunick and pays homage to jazz and soul greats back in the day. It's Bluey's fourth album for Dome (and fifth overall as the first was on Expansion Records in 2000) with his Citrus Sun side project which shows his more instrumental-oriented side.

It opens with four covers on the bounce, Tony Momrelle and Deborah Bond feature on Maynard Ferguson's "Mister Mellow". Ms Duncan performs lead once again on Erykah Badu's "Honey" followed by "Mystic Brew" (Ronnie Foster) and "Down For The Third Time". The remaining six tracks, we believe, are all original songs.

The single comes in two sizes, the 3:58 Radio Edit and the full Monty 5:50 album version and is released tomorrow (24 May).

Very strange as this is the third time today that we've featured music by an artist recently deceased as Bobby Caldwell passed  only in March this year and a tribute was posted.

Click on image below for link to where you can buy from. NB available 24 May

Details

Rating:	8.8
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Soul Jazz / Cover Version
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital
Label:	Dome
Cat No:	None
Date:	24/05/2024
Key/BPM:	N/A
Price:	£1

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Citrus Sun [2022] - Expansions [Expansion]

As Ralph Tee states in the release notes, few groups of musicians would be brave enough to tackle such an iconic jazz funk classic "Expansions", but the Incognito guys under the guise of Citrus Sun and in the capable hands of their producer, Bluey, have pulled it off. This rendition of the Lonnie Liston Smith masterpiece from 1975 was recorded in 2020 and became the title track of an album, further to which it has brewed on the underground dance scene building an insatiable appetite for a release on 12" vinyl. 

It's available digitally from Bandcamp and on limited 12" vinyl with an instrumental jazz funk creation "Hard Boiled" on the flip. both tracks are taken from the 2020 Dome album "Expansions & Visions".

Details

Rating:	9
Explicit:	N
Genre/Style:	Jazz Funk / Cover Version
Format:	Single
Media:	Digital/12"
Label:	Expansion
Cat No:	None
Date:	04/03/2022
Key/BPM:	4A/122
Value:	£1 / £13.50

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