Citrus Sun - Anaconga (2024)

Savvy soulsters and jazzers know all about CITRUS SUN (below) – the UK music collective that first came together way in 2000 when Incognito’s Bluey Maunick worked on an album with one of his guitar heroes, Jim Mullen. The result was the Citrus Sun long player, ‘Another Time Another Place’. Bluey enjoyed the freedom the project gave him so much that he vowed to keep the connection alive, remarking at the time that Citrus Sun was “the indulgent and for fun only speedboat, riding alongside my flagship, Incognito”.

Jean-Paul "Bluey" Maunick's fourth Citrus Sun album for Dome, the delightful "Anaconga", is a tribute to the jazz and soul greats of yesteryear. The album opens with the great Maynard Ferguson track "Mister Mellow" from the seventies, sung by Tony Momrelle and Deborah Bond. Citrus Sun is Bluey's more instrumental side project that runs alongside Incognito and features many of the same musicians.