PAUL THOMAS, FUENKA & JES – EUGINA

A summer season as advantageous as 2022’s deserves to be seen off the precise method. With the discharge of their eighteenth ‘In Search Of Dawn’ compilation, Black Gap Recordings have already tipped it an albums-wink, and now they’re set to do the identical on the singles entrance.

For it, Paul Thomas, one of many foremost leaders of the style’s nu-skool, has joined forces with the progressively likeminded Fuenka (James Lee & Stuart Browne) and legendary songstress JES. The end result arrives right now within the gloriously sundown type of ‘Eugina’.

If ‘Eugina’s title is chiming with you, properly … it’s for all the explanations you’re imagining, because the quartet have congregated to convey us a brand new tackle the Salt Tank traditional. Initially launched in 1994, it turned the group’s signature monitor and went on to grow to be a serious affect on generations of latest artists, not least Paul, Fuenka and JES.

Their manufacturing beguiles from that begin, with heat, embracing bass, loads of ‘Eugina’s seaside atmospheres and a rapturous ebb-and-flow to its harmonies. Flamenco riffs strum reflectively as JES works her magic on its vocal. Towards some odds, she manages to make its “Carolina … Carolina … and have you learnt Carolina?” chorus sound much more blissfully longing than the unique.