Funke And The Two Tone Baby
Album: The Last Thing We'll See Is The Sea
Label: Self Released
Tracks: 4
Website: http://www.funkeandthetwotonebaby.co.uk

When people ask me why I use a DSLR rather than just rely on my phone camera, my reply is simple, control. Whilst the technology has improved and you can get excellent results from a phone camera, they still dictate to you. It's the same thing for music, particularly solo artists, pedals and loops give control back to the artist. If they want a bigger sound, but not necessarily the difficulties of getting a band together, backing tracks can become a thing of the past, performers can now build their band live on stage and make the subtle changes for each and every audience, a wall of sound performance without having to bring the wall.

Funke And The Two Tone Baby, not only lacks a two tone baby, it lacks a baby of any sort, relying just on the talent of Funke,aka Daniel Turnball, to create a wall of sound using pedals, loops, beatbox, gob iron and guitar to build the song and then with the help of collaborator/producer record the tracks acoustically.

The result is "The Last Thing We'll See Is The Sea" and from the opening chords and hooks of "The Great Storm" you know that you are going to get blues that is rough enough around the edges to flay skin and delightfully well written enough to turn it into a book cover.

The prescribed aim of "The Last Thing We'll See Is The Sea" is to create an upbeat record for the start of the festival season an objective it more than exceeds on delivering four powerful songs guaranteed to drive the most jaded to the floor. (There'll be another EP towards the end of the year representing the mellowness of that time of year.

Funke And The Two Tone Baby has delivered a real statement of intent, one that captures a live feel and promises much for anyone lucky to find themselves at a venue where he's playing or even play in the car on the way to a festival to get you in the mood, in fact this is good pretty much anywhere there's a party spirit on.

Neil King