The groove factor is high but the playing is spare, the atmosphere taut. That founders Julian Marshall and Martin Ditcham should have produced such a gorgeous first album is unsurprising. Marshall wrote Dancing in the City, a platinum selling single with Kit Hain, whilst Ditcham co-wrote Sweetest Taboo with Sade, successful in the charts for the second time recently.
Working with trumpeter's trumpeter Dick Pearce ( Dizzy Gillespie was one of his wedding guests ), Umbrella People leave the first footprints in what will be a fascinating journey.
1 Nearby Far ( marshall/Ditcham/Pearce )
2 Ame's Party ( Marshall/ Ditcham )
3 Blue Notes On Empty Space (Marshall/Ditcham/Pearce )
4 Selling Water By The River ( Marshall/ Ditcham )
5 Bossa Corsa ( Marshall/Ditcham )
6 Nearby Far, Too ( Marshall/Ditcham )
7 My Vulnerable Heart ( Marshall/Ditcham/Pearce )
8 Vitorioso ( Nazareth )
Julian Marshall - Keyboards
Martin Ditcham - Drums, Percussion and Drum Programming
Special Guests
Dick Pearce - Trumpet and Flugel Horn
Rosanna Schura - Voice
Produced by Umbrella People
Recorded by Jono Grant at Jono's Bedroom, Devon and London,Summer 1999