After a four-year recess, Los Angeles' Breakestra returns with the authentic party-funk that cultivated their fabled Rootdown club nights into a center-point for rare-groove and soul connoisseurs worldwide. Using the influence of the Meters and the J.B.'s as their launching point, Dusk Till Dawn continues to push them beyond their origins as a cover band of funk's greatest sampled breaks and riffs. In fact, with the addition of new female vocalist Afrodyete, tracks like "Come On Over" revisits the terrain of funky divas like Marva Whitney and Lyn Collins. But Breakestra is still the one-man show of Miles "Music Man" Tackett, as he provides not only the vision but bass, drum, guitar, keyboard and vocals for the majority of the album, gaining assistance from a strong personnel of studio musicians when needed. He controls everything but the horns of New Orleans funk instrumental "Back At The Boathouse" and gives Mixmaster Wolf husky voice open space to preach over his acid-funk display on "Show You The Way." Not visionary in anyway, but authentically perfect for getting up on your good foot.
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