Canadian electro-soul and hip hop band from Montreal, Quebec, Busty and the Bass, is made up of powerhouse horn and rhythm sections that do much more than accompany two vocalists. Evan Crofton a.k.a. Alistair Blu (vocals, keyboards, synths), Scott Bevins (trumpet), Chris Vincent (trombone), Louis Stein (guitar), Milo Johnson (bass), Eric Haynes (keyboards, piano) and Julian Trivers (drums) rock every show, big or small.
Their music spans across a wide variety of genres represented in singular collections. Their first album, The Glam, consists of an "intro" and "outro" as well as a variety of feelings in between, like straight-forward energetic tunes "The Real" and "Tryna Find Myself" and deep rap/jazz fusion "Right Kind." That album even includes the same song twice. It is apparent that after listening to many of Busty's songs that they emphasize how to insert as much abstract ideas and sounds and merge them together.
I had a chance to speak with Louis Stein about Busty's main initiatives and what impact they hope to achieve by writing and performing as a group.
Additionally, I mentioned to Stein how randomization was used on their album, Lift.