Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul Maunick channel DIY funk on new STR4TA album

Born from an improvised jam session recorded in a shed.

Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul Maunick are releasing a new collaborative album as STR4TA, called Aspects, via Peterson’s own Brownswood Recordings imprint this March.

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Aiming to emulate the DIY, analogue sounds of British funk, the duo adopted a “more naive, less considered” approach to production.

“The idea of the project was to capture that raw, moment-to-moment sound,” Maunick explains.

The album follows the duo’s release of their ‘Aspects’ 12”, which was also released on Brownswood.

Pre-order Aspects here in advance of its 26th March release, check out the artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist:

2. Rhythm In Your Mind

3. Dance Desire

4. We Like It

5. Steppers Crusade

6. After The Rain

7. Give In To What is Real

8. Kinshasa FC

9. Vision 9

Photo by: Hortobágyi Oros