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British funk legends Cymande have announced new album Renascence which will be out January 31 via BMG. It will be their first album since 2015’s A Simple Act of Faith (which was their first album ...

The new documentary 'Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande' tells the story of the British band that quietly influenced much of today's popular music. By Eric Renner Brown Many people who know Cymande ...

UK funk/jazz cult legends Cymande are on tour in the US in support of their new album Renascence. It’s their first record and visit here in a decade, and things kicked off Thursday night at NYC’s ...

(L-R) Director Tim Mackenzie-Smith, Cymande bassist Steve Scipio, guitarist Patrick Patterson. CREDIT: Sarah Bemand British funk group Cymande, who stopped performing in 1974 but reunited nearly four ...

In October, Cymande unveiled Renascence, the inimitable British psych-funk ensemble’s first record in a decade. With the preview single “Chasing an Empty Dream,” the band showed that its forthcoming ...

In October, Cymande unveiled Renascence, the legendary British psych-funk ensemble’s first record in a decade, due to release on Jan. 31 via BMG. Today, Jan. 8, the nine-piece band has expanded their ...

The British group with Caribbean roots stopped performing in 1974. Its slow-rolling comeback is realized on Friday with a new album, “Renascence.” By Jim Farber In the late ’70s, when the star hip-hop ...

They broke up in 1975, but their breaks kept returning to the charts in hits by De La Soul, the Fugees and many others. Now a new documentary is telling their remarkable story Some time in the late ...

Cymande was an early ‘70s group of Black British musicians who released three albums, split in 1975 and largely faded from view — until years later when, in a now-familiar story, their records began ...

"Getting It Back" is too focused on the legacy of Cymande to actually tell the band's story. The official story on Cymande (a Calypso word, pronounced sih-MAHN-day) is pretty brief. They formed amid ...