Khruangbin - Summer Madness (Late Night Tales: Khruangbin)

KHRUANGBIN - Late Night Tales
Album released 4th December 2020
2LP / CD / DIGITAL

“It’s cool to think about what you would listen to late at night, as a band together, lighting a spliff, kinda vibe. We definitely wanted to cover as much global territory as possible; so it was the globe and then home. We wanted to show the treasures from our hometown, or people from our hometown that the rest of the world probably doesn’t know. That’s what makes Khruangbin Khruangbin. The stubbornness about being so hometown-centric but what makes Houston is this this constant international influence. That’s that gulf stream, bringing it right into Houston. So I guess that’s kind of the theme.”
Khruangbin October 2020

Hot on the heels of ‘Mordechai’, the critically acclaimed third album from US psych-rockers Khruangbin, the Texas trio are set to become the latest act to present their own LateNightTales in the popular, long-running musician-curated album series.

Having first come to prominence in 2013 when producer and D.J. Bonobo included Khruangbin’s ‘A Calf Born in Winter’ in his own collection of songs for the series, the little known Houston trio had yet to release an album, but have since gone on to become international superstars forming their own exotic, individual sound. “The LateNightTales series is such a special thing to be a part of because we wouldn’t have made it if it wasn’t for Bonobo’s LateNightTales, because that’s how we got into the LNT family – and got a break.”

With a mind-blowing selection of tracks that cross borders and cultures, Khruangbin’s deep love of global grooves – from Asian pop to Nigerian reggae – Japanese mellow groove to Latina flavas – are steeped in eclecticism; Nazia Hassan’s Hindi-disco ‘Khushi’, produced by British-Indian legend Biddu, South Korean rock band Sanullim who contribute ‘Don’t Go’, a pair of African bangers from Nigerian Maxwell Udoh and Roha Band, from Ethiopia; a diversion to Belarus for Песняры and thence to Madrid for the strident vocal performance of Paloma San Basilio with ‘Contigo’ before hightailing back to Texas.

Elsewhere, the Lone Star state reps proudly, with David Marez and Kelly Doyle plus, in the LateNightTales tradition, the band deliver an exclusive, horizontally brilliant version of Kool & The Gang’s ‘Summer Madness’, while the mix concludes with a spoken word piece by Tierney Malone, accompanied by fellow Houstonian Geoffrey Muller’s atmospheric banjo rendering of Erik Satie’s ‘Gnossienne’.

01 Carlos Santana And Turiya Alice Coltrane - Illuminations
02 Brilliantes Del Vuelo - I Know That (When The Spring Time Comes)
03 Nazia Hassan - Khushi
04 Kelly Doyle - DRM
05 Sanullim - Don't Go
06 Maxwell Udoh - I Like It (Don’t Stop)
07 David Marez - Enseñame
08 Gerald Lee - Can You Feel The Love (Reprise)
09 Justine & The Victorian Punks - Still You
10 George Yanagi + Nadja Band - 「祭ばやじか聞こえる」のテーマ
11 Песняры - Зачарованная Моя
12 Khruangbin - Summer Madness (Exclusive Cover Version)
13 Paloma San Basilio - Contigo
14 Roha Band - Yetikimt Abeba
15 Tierney Malone / Geoffrey Muller - Transmission For Jehn - Gnossienne No 1 (Exclusive Spoken Word Piece)

[MrTalbain]

I heard this on Gran Turismo 7 and had to find it ASAP, such a great cover!

[flyingcheff]

Please Khruangbin, make a super long chill out version of this, it's epic. Perhaps a 14 minute version...? Pure heaven!

[christophersmith]

Only Khruangbin is worthy enough to cover this classic masterpiece.

[TheFennerPSVR]

BEST SONG IN GT7! Always have to listen to this in the menu before jumping into a race

[Loukoumakias]

Thank you Polyphony Digital for showing me this masterpiece. I love it!

[matthamm]

This is pure magic. I want this played at my funeral while I'm burning on a pyre in a Darth Vader costume.

[albg]

The fact that this tune hasn't racked up millions of plays is frigging criminal!!!

[quadrolizer]

Gran Turismo 7 brought me here!




Nice song, smooth and chilled!!!

[faresabidi]

THANKS KOOL & THE GANG,
Thanks Khruangbin.

[rosshudson]

My favourite song being covered by my favourite group, life doesn’t get better than this

[masonmethot]

Polyphony always knows what songs will tickle us just right and this is definitely one of them

[KevRS]

I was so happy when I heard this yesterday in Gran Turismo 7.

I was like: "Hold on, this sounds a bit like "Summer Madness" by Kool & The Gang..."

Nice cover!

[JohnnyBluebeam]

“Leanin' to the side but you can't speed through
Two miles an hour so everybody sees you”
- Will Smith
Perfect cover, Perfect song for GT7.

[davidepaltrinieri]

Heard it in Gran Turismo 7, at first I thought "wait a second, it reminds me of summer madness", and in fact there it is! cover!

[ABWard-riuu]

Kool & the Gang. One of the best R&B groups from the 70s and 80s created this lovely tune (Summer Madness) in 1974; It has inspired this great remix. I was a kid born in the 70s raised in the 80s and loved this song forever. When I heard this mix on GT7 I was thoroughly impressed with it.

[mariseedstar]

The way and skill with which Mark masters the guitar is absolutely hypnotic. Pure magic!❤

[bryanewyatt]

Summer Madness is one of the great instrumentals of our time. Stripped down for such a small group, it's still just as special.

[rounick]

Everything these guys touch turns to gold

[MikeSkateTV]

GT7 has alot of amazing surprises, this is one of em! :D

[lovepeaceandsoulfullrighto]

Ok...I’ve never heard this until 5 minutes ago and I have fallen in love. It’s almost not a remake, I don’t know how, but they own it as far as I’m concerned