Black and Tan Records proudly presents the new Bluestronica album, Global Electric Soul.
The release brings together electronic blues, world rhythms and atmospheric production in a style that has become a signature of Bluestronica. Guitars, grooves and carefully crafted electronic textures create an album that feels both familiar and fresh.
Global Electric Soul is available now on all major streaming services.
Visit the release page for the full tracklist and listening links.
The Bluestronica archive section has been expanded with a new page documenting the production methods behind several BLu ACiD and ElectroBluesSociety recordings.
The archive provides insight into the long-distance collaboration process used with artists including Boo Boo Davis, Steffen Morrison, and Jan Hidding. Vocals were often recorded separately before instrumental arrangements and production layers were developed remotely in the Netherlands.
Particular attention is given to the fully remote productions created with Boo Boo Davis during the COVID pandemic, when recordings were exchanged between East St. Louis and the Netherlands through a trusted intermediary.
The page also contains several listening examples and archived video material from the BLu ACiD sessions surrounding the production of What Kind Of Shit Is This.
New on the Bluestronica website: a closer look at the live performance setup of ElectroBluesSociety.
The post dives into how live blues instrumentation, looping, backing tracks and synchronized visuals were combined into one performance system — built step by step through experimentation, mistakes, and practical live solutions.
Read it here
During the period 2016 – 2022 the guys from ElectroBluesSociety invited several other artists to record / write new music with.
Today we released this compilation with our favorite tracks from these collaborations.
B&T 989 – ElectroBluesSociety 2016 – 2022
Tracklisting:
The music is available on all stream and download platforms.
ElectroBluesSociety is an experimental electro blues duo. Two guys and a bunch of junk with a broad taste and an open mind mixing the old with the new. Modern technologies combined with 30+ years of live stage experience in the European blues / roots music scene.
today we released
B&T 988 – ElectroBluesSociety + Boo Boo Davis – Lowdown Dirty Blues (Rosé Sunset remix)
Our French buddy Rosé Sunset made another nice remix from one of the tracks of the Transatlantic Quarantaine Sessions that ElectroBluesSociety and Boo Boo Davis released earlier.
The single is released digital and available on all the download and streaming platforms.
This is what BLUES IN THE SOUTH (UK) wrote about the new record of Boo Boo Davis + ElectroBluesSociety
B&T 987 – Boo Boo Davis + Electro Blues Society – Transatlantic Quarantaine Sessions
Regular BiTS readers might recognise some of the numbers on this set, as a few have seen release as digital singles and have been reviewed as such. East Saint Louis bluesman Boo Boo, a real old school blues singer, harpman and drummer, has been working with Dutch label Black & Tan since 1998.
They weren’t going to let a little thing like a nearly global lockdown get in the way, and these quarantine tracks are the result. Boo Boo tends to just do his thing—tough, no-nonsense vocals and wailing blues harp—whilst the ElectroBluesSociety (label boss Jan Mittendorp on guitar and “buttons” and Jasper Mortier on drums and bass) complements him with some raw electric guitar work, and often computer generated rhythms and effects. Having listened to and enjoyed the singles, it was something of a surprise that the album itself comes across as a balance of blues and electronica.
On the individual releases, it often seemed as though Boo Boo was the main focus, but on this set, there is a definite, very recognisable hybrid style. Purists might quibble about it, but Boo Boo himself seems quite happy about it. See it as a salient reminder that the blues isn’t just for old folks, you know.
B&T 987 – Boo Boo Davis + ElectroBluesSociety – Transatlantic Quarantaine Sessions
Covid-19 bremst, aber verhindert nicht die Kooperation: Zwischen den Kontinenten wanderten die Sounddateien hin und her. Zwischen den Niederlanden und St. Louis. Zwischen der ElectroBluesSociety, zu der Jasper Mortier und Jan Mittendorp gehören, und Boo Boo Davis, der im Mississippi-Delta aufwuchs und sich über zwei Dekaden immer wieder in Europa auf Touren vorgestellt hatte.
„Transatlantic Quarantaine Sessions“ (Black & Tan) bezeugt ein gänzlich unvoreingenommene Zusammenarbeit: Es gibt rohen Blues und ruppigen Funk, gesungen von dem Amerikaner und eine ausgeflippte Harmonika. Aus dem schäbigen Schuppen, zu dem die Leute raus aufs Land kommen, um zu tanzen.
Doch da ist noch mehr zu haben. Zum Beispiel sphärische Übergänge zu Ambient-Dub-Blues. Genial. Eines der Stück heißt „It’s A Sad Thing“. Schade, dass wir aufs Konzert warten müssen.
today we released:
B&T 987 – Boo Boo Davis + ElectroBluesSociety – Transatlantic Quarantaine Sessions
Between 1998 and 2019 Boo Boo Davis used to come and tour in Europe several times each year and most of music was written and recorded during these tours.
The current pandemic put that “tradition’ on hold. But with the help of the internet and mutual friend Chris Brown in St Louis, the guys from ElectroBluesSociety (Netherlands) started to exchange idea’s and demo’s with Boo Boo in East St Louis (USA). So despite the fact that they had the Atlantic Ocean between them, they were still able to write and record new music. Covid may be able stop live shows (for a while) but it can not stop the creation of new music.
Several of these tracks have been released as single releases earlier this year but here is the complete album. Twelve original tracks plus one remix by Rosé Sunset from France. The album is released digital and available on all the download and streaming platforms.
today we released
B&T 986 – ElectroBluesSociety + Boo Boo Davis – Bye Baby Bye Bye (Rosé Sunset remix)
Our French buddy (Rosé Sunset) made this nice remix from one of the tracks that ElectroBluesSociety and Boo Boo Davis released earlier this year.
The single is released digital and available on all the download and streaming platforms.
today we released a new single from the ‘transatlantic quarantaine sessions’
B&T 985 – ElectroBluesSociety feat Boo boo Davis – Lowdown Dirty Blues
This is single number 9 from the ‘transatlantic quarantaine sessions”.
Between 1998 and 2019 Boo Boo Davis used to come and tour in Europe several times each year and most of music was written and recorded during these tours.
The current pandemic put that “tradition’ on hold. But with the help of the internet and mutual friend Chris Brown in St Louis, the guys from ElectroBluesSociety (Netherlands) started to exchange idea’s and demo’s with Boo Boo in East St Louis (USA).
So despite the fact that they had the Atlantic Ocean between them, they were still able to write and record new music. Covid can stop live shows (for a while) but it can not stop the creation of new music.
The music is released digital only and available on all streaming and download platforms.