Big Boss Man (band) - Humanize

Humanize

Big Boss Man's debut album, Humanize, featuring the singles Sea Groove, Big Boss Man and Sell Your Soul was released in April 2001. 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 the 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 May 2001, "Later" Magazine gave away 100,000 copies of a compilation CD called “The Later Lounge” which featured kitsch classics from the 60's & 70's. Big Boss Man had the honour of being the only contemporary act featured on the CD with their track "Party 7". They were alongside such acts as James Clarke, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Paul Nero, and Hugo Montenegro.
In December 2001, the magazine Later released a compilation CD entitled "The later lounge 2", featuring the band's debut single "Sea Groove".
In 2006 'Party 7' was featured in one of a number of advertisements for Nike's FIFA 2006 World Cup advertisement campaign. The advertisement was entitled 'Henry' and featured Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona. Coincidentally, the UK BBC coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final featured 'Party 7'. Blow Up records reissued the 'Humanize' album in 2006, with stickers on the sleeve with reference to the ad.

In 2002, after the release of Humanize, the band decided to tour Europe to promote it. The dates included 3 weeks in Spain, 2 weeks in Germany, then travelling to Moscow (Russia), Venice (Italy) and finishing up with 2 weeks in France including the Le Rock Dans Tousses Etats festival in Evreux where they played to 10,000 people.
Big Boss Man returned from Europe and continued to tour around England and Scotland. They were also asked to rework and remix tracks for Japanese sensation Mansfield for his Golden Hour album, and reworked Ingfried Hoffmann's 60's/70's Euro-cult TV theme Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt for an EP released on Germany's Diggler Records.