ESG – Step Off (Vinyl LP, Fire Records) - Mint / Sealed Blue Note 'She Bangs the Drums' and

'She Bangs the Drums' and 'I Wanna Be Adored'

Label: CBS Japan

deliberate pulse

Bamba was born in 1938 in Mopti

Cinematic strings meld with layered synths and melodic guitars to create songs that hint at Depeche Mode

ESG – Step Off (Vinyl LP, Fire Records) - Mint / Sealed Blue Note 'She Bangs the Drums' andReissue of their comeback album that was originally on Soul Jazz. Eleven years between LPs, and yet Step Off picked up exactly where ESG left off, neither unnecessarily updating their signature sound nor retracing over ground they previously staked out. Recording for Soul Jazz, the label whose 2000 retrospective A South Bronx Story reclaimed the group's austere, remote grooves from the clutches of sampleheads, ESG (joined here by second generation