Jungle

Yeah, so, okay.

In, I believe, July, Jungle, the British...

What are they? I guess music.

I guess they're a band.

I guess Jungle is a band.

Put out an album that really irritated me in a very strange way.

It was very, like, it's neo-soul.

I listened to this.

[Musik]

Entstanden ist die Platte gemeinsam mit Josh Lloyd Watson und Lydia Kitto von Jungle.

Die drei trafen in Kopenhagen aufeinander und merkten schnell, dass das musikalisch äußerst gut funktioniert.

Statt Songs ewig zu zerdenken, arbeiten sie aus dem Moment heraus.

He's trafficking in, you know, kind of timeless soul and funk over here, but also traces of African and South American music.

And this is, you know, this is his fifth album, and it's, you know, produced by J. Lloyd Watson and Lydia Kitto of the band Jungle, whose new album we talked about on this show a couple months ago, and it's just, as the title suggests, this is an album, uh, largely about joy.

Yeah, Happiness Anytime, I really hear Leon as creating this atmosphere where it's not like you're supposed to turn off your mind, turn off your emotions-

Mm-hmm

And we're gonna switch gears a touch and jump into some of our disco funk bag with one of my favorite bands that I discovered in these last five years celebrating solar power, teaming up with Bas for this one.

The band I'm talking about is Jungle, and here they are now with "Romeo II" on solar power.

Let's go.

[singing] Honesty is so relative.

I'm straight out.

Go tell them it's trouble, I'm straight out the jungle.

Jungle.

Straight out, straight out.

I'm Ali Hassan, sitting in for Tom Power.

You're listening to Q. We're jamming to the British band Jungle right now.

It's a band that was started with two childhood friends.

Friends who believe that art could be bigger than the people who make it.

And for a long time, Josh and Tom kept their identities out of the picture.

They wanted the music and the visuals to speak for themselves.

But Jungle has grown a lot since then.

What started as two friends from West London has become a big collective with a Brit Award, Mercury Prize nominations, and now a third member, longtime collaborator, Lydia Kito.

It is Major Lazer.

It is Jungle.

It is The Dudes.

It is Calvin Harris.

Yeah, it's a health and safety action by them.

What have you got, Ants?

Uh, Back on 74 by Jungle to play us out tonight.

Uh, Jungle, the guys from Shepherd's Bush, London.