The band Resolution 88 is all about funk on Fender Rhodes. It consists of Tom O’Grady (keyboards), Tiago Coimbra (bass), Alex Hitchcock (sax), Ric Elsworth (drums) and Oli Blake (percussion).

Add to that guest musicians such as Tom Smith on tenor and soprano sax and bass clarinet, and singer Vanessa Haynes, and the line-up for their fourth CD is complete.

It contains 8 tracks that take the band in a new direction, while still retaining the traditional Fender Rhodes and synthesizer sound of Herbie Hancock and Toby Smith. Previously they added orchestral overdubs (as Herbie Hancock did on ‘Manchild’), but now extra synthesizers have been added. Tom O’Grady now used Mellotron, Echoplex, Oberheim and glockenspiel, among others.

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