The Unbelievable Two - The Unbelievable Two (2014)

Is it Jazz-Funk ? Is it Boogie ? Or is it even Disco? With The Unbelievable Two you are in there everywhere. With their hearts in the late Seventies and early Eighties these two well crafted musicians know how to work a solid groove.

„We were thinking, what would have happened if Roy Ayers met Stevie Wonder in a studio with Nile Rodgers and listened to a Steely Dan album?“ Of course there is a smile on Mzuzu’s and Mucka’s face when they tell this story, but The Unbelievable Two masterminds, composers, producers, arrangers and musicians from Hamburg/Germany have been on the scene long enough to think a step further. „In the end, it’s all about the funk and the soul. And the funk and the soul is about the feeling you got in that moment., when you are playing live! That’s why each song is a fresh composition and directly recorded in just one day. We were really after the small variations and moods, you develop while playing a song to shine through the arrangements.”

The Unbelievable Two recorded their eponymous debut album throughout of 2012 with a vinyl sound and the immediacy of the classic disco recordings in mind. The collection consists of nine solid tracks succeeding in every environment. Of course you can treat „Come On And Dance“ and „Cool Breeze“ as sure shot club winners, or listen to „Funkin' For Eternity“ and „Summer Ride“ as two fantastically grooving jams, but then you only get half of the picture. „The Unbelievable Two“ as an instrumental album is about finding your own groove, space and freedom in expression.

„Back Together Again“ and „Jungle Boogie“ may have you guessing if you are a trainspotter in the world of classic funk and disco, but of course this is another couple of irresistable Unbelievable Two originals, break it down to the respectful homage to local Hamburg neighbourhood clubbing „Good Old Days“ and you have a modern day analogue boogie monster with a message.