I remember Cornershop from high school. They had a huge hit way back when with “Brimful of Asha,” though I remember little else than the “everyone needs a bosom” line, repeated ad infinitum throughout the track to the point that it got mildly irritating. In case you liked it, we’ve got that song up now. But with their latest work being showcased on the Red Bull Music Academy, I’ve been clued a bit more into what I was missing: huge, lush layers of sound — almost Phil Spector-esque, middle eastern melodies on sitar that remind me of a more tolerable Ravi Shankar; then there’s the funk-guitar of Where they won me over was when they talked about working with Allen Ginsberg in the late 90s, to do some poetry reading with the boys. You can get a dosage of their illustrious past (and lengthy career) on Red Bull Music Academy Radio now.
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