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As you have probably guessed by now, there will be no Brooklyn Funk Essentials show tonight at club Fasching in Stockholm. Nor will there be one tomorrow at New Morning in Paris and the gig at London’s Jazz Café previously scheduled for this Sunday, December 12, has also been cancelled. But…

The good news is that all three shows have been rescheduled for 2021. They were already moved from earlier dates in 2020, but fingers crossed that by May and July next year, we can be back playing shows again. Check below for the currently solid shows for 2021. Other gigs will be added.

We are also planning on doing some more streaming gigs in the near future. We had a lot of fun doing the last one in July, where we were jamming on freer form versions of our songs, so the upcoming streams will bring more of that. Watch our social media spaces for updates.

Until then - Stay Good, stay strong, stay funky!

May 9 Stockholm, Sweden - Fasching

July 8 Paris, France - New Morning

July 10 Kongsberg, Norway - Kongsberg Jazz Festival

July 11 London, UK - The Jazz Café

July 21 Toulon, France - Festival Jazz à Toulon

Brooklyn Funk Essentials at Jazz in Marciac, France 2018.      Photo by Andrea Davis Kronlund

Brooklyn Funk Essentials at Jazz in Marciac, France 2018. Photo by Andrea Davis Kronlund

Record Store Day 2020

Oozing fresh Brooklyn Funk Essentials vinyl.

Oozing fresh Brooklyn Funk Essentials vinyl.

This Saturday, September 26 is Record Store Day. Hopefully, you’ll be able to check in on your local vinyl merchant and pick up some nice black plastic magic. We’re doing our own mini celebration here at Brooklyn Funk Essentials HQ by putting all of our webshop stock - vinyl, CDs and T-shirts - at special prices throughout the weekend. What a great way to support your favourite starving artist. Stay Safe. Stay Funky. Stay Good.

'Watcha Want From Me' & 'Miss Mess' Single Out Now.

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Warming up the end of the summer, Brooklyn Funk Essentials release the single ‘Watcha Want From Me’ / ‘Miss Mess’ on Dorado Records. Currently topping Spotify’s All Funked Up playlist, ‘Watcha Want From Me’ is a re-work of the Frankie Knuckles featuring Adeva song from Knuckles’ 1995 album ‘Welcome To The Real World’. Brooklyn Funk Essentials leader Lati Kronlund was one of the co-writers of the original, and here the band have given it an uptempo boogie vibe with Alison Limerick on co-lead vocals, and also sharpened the lyrics to make them reflect the seemingly never-ending plight for civil rights.

‘Miss Mess’ is a psychedelic kraut dub joint, where saxophonist Anna Brooks weaves dreamy melodies over drummer Hux Flux’s broken beats. The song came together as a studio jam during sessions fro the ‘Stay Good’ album, which is currently in the pressing plants for an early autumn release.

'Ain't Nothing' is BFE's springtime single

Following in the success of ‘No Strings’, which was released just before Christmas and quickly racked up over half a million digital spins, Dorado Records are releasing BFE’s ‘Ain’t Nothing’ worldwide on all digital platforms on May 3. This groovy neo-soul number is a call for us to unite and get back on a path to a better future, as “there ain’t nothing we can’t do - together”. This is another track from the forthcoming album, which is now scheduled for release on August 23 on all media. Watch this space for more news on that.

Ain't Nothing, a song by Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Alison Limerick, Desmond Foster on Spotify