cymande

• The band were signed by producer John Schroeder to his Alaska label in the UK (and Janus in North America). Cymande went on to release three albums in the early-to-mid 1970s.
• Cherry Red Records are proud to reissue all three original Cymande albums.
• Their debut, Cymande (1972), boasted perhaps their best-known funk anthem, ‘The Message’, and the much-sampled ‘Bra’, adopted by pioneering DJs like DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash before being plundered by De La Soul.
• This reissue boasts two non-album single edits and new sleeve-notes written with the cooperation with the band and John Schroeder.

Cymande (pronounced Sah-mahn-day) are a legendary funk group formed in 1971 in London by musicians from Guyana, Jamaica and Saint Vincent. Their name was derived from a calypso word for Dove, symbolizing peace and love.

Track listing:

• Zion I 3:30
• One More 3:06
• Getting It Back 4:18
• Listen 4:40
• Rickshaw 5:54
• Dove 10:55
• Bra 5:06
• The Message 4:20
• Ras Tafarian Folk Song 3:15
• The Message - 7" Mix 3:28
• Bra - 7" Mix 3:29