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Humanize

Humanize
Studio album by Big Boss Man
Released	April 2001
Recorded	Ramshackle Studios
Genre	Funk, hammond, latin
Length	42:33
Label	Blow Up Records
Big Boss Man chronology
Humanize (2001) Winner (2005)
Singles from Eoghan88/Sandbox
"Sea Groove" Released: September 2000 "Big Boss Man" Released: June 2001 "Sell Your Soul" Released: May 2002

Humanize is Big Boss Mans debut album, featuring the singles Sea Groove, Big Boss Man and Sea Groove and is on the label Blow Up Records. The sound has been described on their website as "a hip Heavy Hammond hybrid of pop, 6T's R'n'B / Latin soul and funk." It is a very upbeat album and has a distinction of being a mostly instrumental, the only vocals being on the songs Humanize, Big Boss Man, Money and Sell Your Soul. The lyrics that are on the album are short; Big Bos Man, and Sell Your Soul are the only two songs which follow a standard structure of verse/chorus etc, whereas the other two merely have a phrase repeated throughout the song.

In 2006 the song 'Party 7' was featured in the ad entitled 'Henry' featuring Thierry Henry and Eric Cantana. This was part of Nike's FIFA World Cup advertisement campaign and was one of a number of adverts. Co-incidentally, the UK BBC coverage of the FIFA World Cup Final 2006 features Party 7. Blow Up records then reissued the album, with stickers on the sleeve with reference to the ad. Humanize also incidentally forms the soundtrack to the BAFTA nominated short film Sweet which was directed by James Pilkington and stars Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (of the UK comedy TV series The Mighty Boosh.

Track listing

1. "Humanize" – 3:51
2. "Big Boss Man" – 3:22
3. "Sea Groove" – 4:28
4. "Money" – 3:20
5. "Don't You Tell My Missus" – 3:29
6. "Ramshackle Strut" – 0:43
7. "Sell Your Soul" – 4:05
8. "Big Boss Buddha" - 3:41
9. "Party 7" – 3:37
10. "Out of Time" - 4:09
11. "125 Special" – 4:46
12. "Bad Bad Whisky" – 2:56

Personnel

• Nasser Bouzida a.k.a “the Bongolian” - organs, percussion and vocals
• Scott Milsom – bass
• Trevor Harding – guitar
• Nick Nicholls – drums

See Also

Big Boss Man's official website

The official Blow Up website

Blow Up Records official website