One of the unexpected benefits of the streaming era documentary boom is that no musical subject is too niche for a feature-length production budget. Film festivals have become rife with music ...

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 ...

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 music, one album-reissue, hip-hop sample, dance-floor drop or soundtrack ...

Legendary British band Cymande have released their new single “How We Roll,” featuring British DJ and music producer Jazzie B (Soul II Soul). This is the third single from their highly anticipated new ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...