El resultado es un álbum brillante, muy elaborado, repleto de vitalidad y apto para todos los públicos.

Senor Rudi recounts the pre-history of Up, Bustle & Out...

The Year was 1989, the sun beamed down upon the sombrero of 'Senor Rudi', and the bleached blond 'Clandestine Ein'. They were back on their native Bristol streets talking of adventures had. Ein had been in Norway employed as a stunt man on skis, givin' em his all during a James Bond shoot. Rudi was on a lonesome horse ride, attired in a ceremonial poncho, speaking in Quechua with his Indian guide over the Bolivian Andes in search of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid's grave.

Alas, the adventures were told, a stumbling block remained and the all important question was posed, "what shall we do now?" Ein was quick to respond, "I'm off clubbing mate, see ya." Senor Rudi opted for a night in a Cuban Salsa bar with his old time romance, Gloria Estefan. With the usual glimmer in her sexy eyes she suggested the dance floor. Rudi accepted her graceful hand and kissed it with the full desire common to secret late night lovers of this kind. Whilst groovin' she gave him an idea, "caballero, make music of a sexy, drift-into-your-fantasy-world style. Musical stories."

At the pirate radio station the idea was discussed, developed and set into motion, fast like a galleon's sails stressed from a wind overload. 6 months later the song, 'An African Friendship' was released, which so moved Jazzy B of Soul II Soul that he wrote to them expressing his love for the song! The vibe grew to a massive collective of artists, including input from the Wild Bunch-Massive Attack. The studio just kept growing and the records kept rollin'.

In 1996 a fresh barrel was added to Up, Bustle & Out's revolutionary cellar - a 7 member live band, young, colourful, vibrant and flirtatious. The stage is the desert expanse where the band and audience forget barriers and party as one. Come and see us rock to the pressure drop... "Up, Bustle and Out" - the hiphopjazzfunklatin concentration.

Senor Rudi, The creator of the Up, Bustle & Out scenario, song and lyric writer, overall production, Andean and silver flautist, and romancer according to the bizarre code of chivalry. Of Gypsy descent and happy come lucky adventurer when on the move. All ambience and effects are the result of on the spot recording achieved by portable equipment. A funky comic citizen of the world fluent in English, French and Spanish. Charmed the daughter of the great Maharaja of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India by elegant storytelling. Together they eloped and have settled in a corner of Europe.

Clandestine Ein, the studio assassin, creator of funki riddems, in ya face, in the middle distance or way off. Building up the heat with Hammond and the Rhodes keyboards. The girls feel on edge but the sound is overbearing. Soon they'll be screaming 'Can't get enough!' A souped up strictly Saturday night party clubber.

Helen Seymour, Queen of the bass scene, love child circa 1970's, one of the illegitimate daughter's of Jimi Hendrix's father. Brain washed by Starsky & Hutch theme tunes. Seen spinning off into orbit attached to a Marshall amp by a jack lead. Equally whips out acid bass riffs from a neat little synth for all you rantin' acid headz.

Jonny 'El Palito', drivin' drums with bass pedals that destroy rigs. He gate-crashed the banquet dressed in a deep blue suit, concealed his eyes behind shades and made a bee line for the bar. With a Cuban 'Romeo and Julieta' cigar snug in the corner of his mouth and a bottle of vintage Skye whisky to his right, he kept 'em entertained until the small hours. His little drum stick remained snug in his pocket.

Vicky Burke. glistening gold from a saxaphone that hung from her shoulder, down the fairy steps of Eastern Europe and onto the urban streets of Bristol came the Romanian Gypsy. Innocent and a mind filled by folk tales and legends, her clear vision soon clouded as she skipped along playing dashing melodies. Her collection of saxaphones become magic wands that enchanted the jazzfunklatinhiphop masses. Her sparkling hair, at times, conceals her eyes and it is rumoured thatt her lipsare as smooth as Belgian chocolates! Who knows?

Senora Eugenia Ledesma, in the Southern lights of Argentina was born a Senora, who was nursed by the 'Tangos' and 'Chacareras'. Percussion flowed through her Latin red veins unto the edges of her tinkley fingers. Attention, stick your hands in the air, this chica creates a party atmosphere. Hey, sing that tune one time and come again with the bongo beat so neat, her hips rollin' a treat like a Boogaloo gone loco! Ya! Slap that conga now, warm like kisses on da lips. OLE!

Cuffy 'El Guapo', piercing eyes comin' atcha, mesmerised by the mystic beauty of the Flamenco guitar. Hair plaited, dressed to impress, cool and collected exits Cuffy to take a seat in front of tens of thousands of people. He introduces the song but no-one understands a word he speaks. It doesn't matter for the magic is already in the air, vibrating from the rapidity of his nimble fingers. This amigo stares through the gazes of the amorous girls who are out of control. Their hands rise above them like leaves afloat on a frisky river current. Their hips are calling out for his rhythms, which he gives 'em. The speed increases as his fingers tug at the strings of secret passions. The sun, now defeated by a storm, retreats from this battlefield of unknown emotions. Cuffy rises proud in true Flamenco style, like a white butterfly upon and Iris who kissed it's pleasure spot and went to the sky. Bulerias not Bollux!

Also seen skanking with the 'Up Bustle' band..... DJ's Mystic Task and Stevie Beare, inseparable dub plate rude bwoys, the Jackyl & Hyde of the wheels of steel, cutting up shit to the party massive in a rock till ya' drop stylee. Found by Senor Rudi on St. Paul's Blue Mountain. No messin' in drug culture, just Boyz with plenty of bottle(s), bustin' new rhymes. Like the Beastie Boys they measure a 6.7 on the Richter scale.

With influences drawn from diverse sources all over the world -- from Istanbul to Bolivia, Andalusia to North Africa -- Up, Bustle and Out are one of the harder to pin down groups on the experimental breakbeat landscape. Hailing from the English town of Bristol, home also to Tricky and Massive Attack, Up, Bustle and Out comprise producers Rupert Mould and D. "Ein" Fell, who formed the group in the early '90s as an adjunct to their respective interests in non-Western musics, funk and soul, jazz, and experimental underground club styles like house, techno, ambient, and trip-hop. The pair produced an early single, "Une Amitie Africaine" (released on their own Forever Groove label in 1991) tying these sources together, and attracted the attention of a number of labels interested in releasing their material.

The pair pursued other interests until 1993, when they reformed to produce material they eventually sent to Coldcut's Ninja Tune label. Impressed with their work, Ninja Tune released Up, Bustle and Out's debut, The Breeze Was Mellow (As the Guns Cooled in the Cellar), in 1994, which caught the attention of American hip-hop DJs as well as the more eclectic British underground. The following two years were spent by the group traveling and archiving source material for their follow-up, One Colour Just Reflects Another, which utilized field recordings from excursions to Mexico, Central America, the Middle East, and the Andalusian mountains, where Mould played with and recorded Gypsies, smugglers, thieves, and revolutionaries. Combining those source tapes with hip-hop beats, percussion and instrumental tracks recorded in the studio, and vocal and spoken snippets, the group fashioned a unique, signature blend attracting fans of Latin jazz and world music as often as club heads familiar with the more standard Ninja Tune fare.

In addition to their work as Up, Bustle and Out, Ein and Mould are also involved in solo projects extending well beyond the boundaries of their combined effort. Mould performs with a traditional Andean flute group, while Ein is a studio producer and engineer, also recording club tracks under a number of different names.

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