Menahan Street Band Illusions Vinyl

Menahan Street Band, the project by Tom Brenneck, Dave Guy, Nick Movshon, Leon Michels, and Homer Steinweiss, is back with “Illusions”!The album is being released on Diamond West Records—listen now to “Palace of Illusions” featuring string arrangements by the legendary Arthur Verocai:Twenty years after its founding in Tommy Brenneck’s apartment in Bushwick, the Menahan Street Band returns with “Illusions,” their fourth full-length album, released on Brenneck’s label, Diamond West Records.The band—Tommy Brenneck, Dave Guy, Nick Movshon, Leon Michels, and Homer Steinweiss—has each pursued a number of projects in the years since. Brenneck has produced for Baby Rose, Rogê, and Kirby, toured with The Budos Band, and runs Diamond West Records and the studio. Guy plays trumpet with The Roots and on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* and has released his own solo album; Steinweiss has recorded his own solo album and collaborated with Movshon on several platinum-selling album projects; and Michels continues to perform as El Michels Affair, runs Big Crown Records, and has produced Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated albums for Clairo and Norah Jones.Despite their many individual projects, the group reunited—with an energy that, according to Brenneck, felt like “the first time.” Recorded quickly and instinctively, “Illusions” combines Menahan’s signature guitar, horns, and drums with arrangements by Brazilian legend Arthur Verocai, taking listeners on a mind-wandering instrumental journey.Artist Ariana Papademetropoulos contributes original artwork to the album’s otherworldly-seeming collection of music.