Review: Mojo Man – Love & Revolution

 

Mojo Man - Love & Revolution

Mojo Man – Love & Revolution
Format: CD – Digital / Label: Continental Record Services
Release: 2024

Text: Tom Wouters

Mojo Man, a 9-piece powerhouse blues, rock and soul revue took the Dutch club and festival circuit by storm after the release of their debut album in 2015, and looked to become a major force in the Dutch rock scene. Unfortunately, just after the recording of its (unreleased) second album the band broke up, for good so it seemed. But, look here! Mojo Man has been rising up from the dead with a brand new album called ‘Love & Revolution.’ And the sound is still there. Dominated by the five piece horn section and expanded to a 10-piece formation, the ‘balls and horns’ sound of Mojo Man is still rock solid.

‘Love & Revolution’ opens with two banging rock and soul tracks, in which singer Marcel Duprix‘ voice evokes memories of Otis Redding and Frankie Miller (’the white men’s Otis Redding’) and the horns turn it into a true Sam & Dave spectacle. Those soul revue sound we hear again later on the album in the ballad Seventeen and in the ultra-short Untitled, a duet between Duprix and the horn section, in which the former shows that he has a great soul voice. But Mojo Man also shows on this album to be more than just an excellent soul band. In Sexy Lady and closing track Revolution the band, led by Duprix and guitarist Bas van der Wal, gives a great example of heavy Led Zeppelin rock and adds a little extra with the stunning psychedelic rock chaos of Utopia, inspired by Iron Butterfly’s irresistible In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. And then there’s the beautiful country blues of Before We Forget.

Mojo Man is back and how! With Love & Revolution Marcel Duprix and his mates show that the band has been revived and have refined their ‘balls and horns’ sound into a versatile blues, rock and soul revue.

Tracks:
01. Love Revolution
02. Happiness
03. Jealousy
04. Some People
05. Sexy Lady
06. The Losing Blues
07. R. I. P.
08. Utopia
09. Before We Forget
10. Untitled
11. Seventeen
12. Revolution

Website: https://mojoman.nl/