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 ...

Lots of innovative bands are before their time, but few go on to shape popular music long after they break up. In the early 1970s, musicians from London’s Afro-Caribbean diaspora formed the group ...

February 21, 2025 Zombies, vampires, the Phoenix bird—few bands use these as role models in formulating a career path. Actually, Cymande did not consciously decide to follow in their footsteps, but ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cymande is a band made for our current moment — as they’ve been for 50 years. Decade after decade, new listeners wake up to the ...

"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 ...

Whatever it was, there was special excitement Wednesday night at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. It was the return to the United States for Cymande, a British soul band that had a brief run in the ...