‘Hangover Funk’ by New Memphis Colorways | Multi-Instrumentalist Fuses Soul, Jazz, Afrobeat, Electronic Music And More
We are premiering the video for New Memphis Colorways’ ‘Hangover Funk’.
Fresh off the success of his critically acclaimed 2020 release entitled ‘The Music Stands’, Memphis multi-instrumental wizard Paul Taylor is set to return this spring with ‘It Is What It Isn’t’, his third album as New Memphis Colorways. Due out May 21st, the record is a joyously adventurous listen, playfully mixing old school funk, Afrobeat, jazz, blues, fusion, soul, and electronic music into a dazzling blend that manages to feel both vintage and futuristic all at once.
Quote from New Memphis Colorways’ Paul Taylor:
“I had just wrapped the making of a Pandemic file sharing record with lifelong friends Luther Dickinson and Steve Selvidge entitled MEM_MODS (release date tbd), and in an effort to combat the traditional post recording depression, I just kept recording…and I found myself still very much on a roll! This ode to 70s funk came gushing out one slightly depleted sunday morning, hence the title. Fun fact, all the synths on this record are actually guitar or bass played through various synth pedals, so the solo you hear at the end is actually a somewhat traditional rock guitar solo, yet it’s obscured or mutated into synthy noodling bliss. As for the making of this video, without giving too much away, I was inspired by the techniques used to create all of the backgrounds in The Mandalorian.”
Taylor performs every single note on this mostly-instrumental album himself, moving between guitar, bass, synth, omnichord, percussion, and drums with a preternatural ease, but the results suggest the work of an airtight group of virtuosos rather than a one-man band, with impossibly slick grooves and dizzyingly off-kilter jams that hint at everything from Return to Forever and Weather Report to Snarky Puppy and Vulfpeck.
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