Cymande has been played on NTS over 100 times, featured on 102 episodes and was first played on 12 October 2013.

Cymande were an eclectic band who released several albums throughout the early seventies.

They arrived in London, England from Guyana and Jamaica and developed a subtle, deep funk style heavily influenced by Calypso rhythms, Jazz, African music, and American Soul.

Cymande can now be seen as one of the most sophisticated of the heavy funk acts that evolved in the early 1970s.

By the mid-seventies the band members were going their separate ways. It wasn't until 20 years later that they reaped any financial rewards, as their…