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The Impellers are very proud to present their long-anticipated second album
This Is Not A Drill. The Impellers are a 10-piece heavy soul and funk
powerhouse, playing strong original material and new versions of contemporary
tracks. Their new album brings together influences including heavy soul, deep
funk, latin, afrobeats & hip hop. Their live schedule has included shows with
Marva Whitney, Breakestra, James Taylor Quartet, The Bamboos & Lack of Afro and
live BBC Radio sessions. Renowned DJ and promoter Adrian Gibson recruited the
band to play a live mix of tracks from the seminal Ultimate Breaks & Beats
records - 55 classic breaks in a killer hour-and-a-half, non-stop live set -
played as if mixed by a DJ. The band were also featured live onstage with
Brooklyn hip hop legends The B Boys in King of the Beats - The Movie - Part 2.
This is NOT a drill - This is 100% REAL! CD on Légère Recordings / vinyl
on Mocambo Records.
The
Unity Sextet is a special kind of band. The band members met in the spring
of 2011 at jazz festivals where they were playing in different bands with
different music styles. Co-incidentally they noticed that they shared the same
vision of an open-minded, eclectic jazz style. Later they discovered that
amazingly they all hailed from the same region of south-west England. It was
like it was meant to be... Band leader/songwriter, Buddy Franco had an idea:
being friends with renowned producer/recording artist,
Lack of Afro, he asked if he would be up for an impromptu, spontaneous
session with him as producer, arranger and engineer. The Unity Sextet was formed
a couple of weeks later, setting up shop in the Playhouse recording studio where
they lived and worked until the end of summer before moving to Lack of Afro's
studio down the road near Exeter. The resulting album is simply called The
Unity Sextet and features thirteen original tracks. Think of Gilles Peterson’s
legendary That’s How It Is nights at Bar Rumba, Pharoah Sanders’ spiritual,
outerwordly excursions, the cool grooves of A Tribe Called Quest or the relaxed
sounds of the Horace Silver band and you're getting there.
CD/vinyl on
Légère Recordings / CD on
P-Vine in Japan
August 2011 saw the release of
The New Mastersounds seventh studio and first ever US recorded album
Breaks From The Border. Breaks marks a new era in the band’s sonic landscape
by topping their unique syncopated grooves with group vocals. After a major US
festival tour, instead of flying home to England, the band diverted to El Paso,
Texas, and headed to the outskirts of the border town of Tornillo and the Sonic
Ranch studio. Drawing influences from Jimmies McGriff, Smith and Hendrix, as
well as their mentors, The Meters, the band have produced an album packed with
vintage soul-jazz, funk
and solid dance grooves. Check out behind the scenes in Tornillo, TX during the
making of Breaks in the
video created by Ben Mears & Christopher Doody for amodernlove.com. CD/vinyl
on
Tallest Man Records / CD on
P-Vine in Japan.
In 2011 multi-instrumentalist, artist, producer, DJ and in
demand remixer,
Lack Of Afro collaborated on an album project with
Eddie Roberts of The New Mastersounds, produced and played on the album Colours
by
Frootful and still found time to create what is, without doubt, his strongest
album yet:
This Time. A wide ranging and eclectic, progressive musical outlook
is the Lack Of Afro approach and
on this collection the music pulls together several strands into a fantastic,
homogenous journey.
This Time is the Lack Of Afro album we've been waiting
for. Considered, soulful, contemporary yet retro, accomplished certainly and
setting standards in modern music others will struggle to follow.
Checkout the official Lack of Afro feat. Wax & Herbal T
P.A.R.T.Y video. CD/vinyl
on Freestyle Records.
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Lack Of Afro brings forth his solid body of remix work
from his highly prolific career to date, including the likes of Hot 8 Brass
Band, Kraak & Smaak, and The New Mastersounds. In a remarkably short amount of
time, Adam Gibbons (Lack Of Afro) has amassed an extensive and varied body of
work. From his own recordings, featuring his multi instrumental skills, to
producing, DJ-ing and of course, remixing tracks by a huge range of different
artists. This 27 track, 2 disc collection
One Way - Remixes & Rarities brings
together the cream of Adams re-workings, some remixes of his own tracks by like
minded artists, and excitingly some previously unreleased material that sees the
light of day for the very first time on this killer collection of funk fuelled,
dance floor fodder. With so much material to choose from, putting together this
compilation was almost an embarrassment of riches. CD
on Freestyle Records.
It’s been in the making for some time ... here
it is:
An Introduction To The New Mastersounds Vol. 2. The heavy touring, ultra
tight and unbelievably funky international four piece has been busy releasing
fresh music since the release of Volume 1 in 2006. This album provides what we
think anybody who is discovering the NMS space should not miss from their recent
output, as well as some nuggets and rarities from the band’s vast back
catalogue. An Introduction To The New Mastersounds Vol. 2 contains their first
ever released 45 and signature tune One Note Brown as well as tracks which were
unreleased until now. Can You Get It (Remix) is a remix of the Breaks From The
Border album favourite and works perfectly as a kind NMS theme. Talk That Talk
and Wack! on the other hand hail back to the gritty funk era of the band’s early
output curated by Keb Darge. This compilation shows the whole funky diversity of
this legendary Deep Funk & Soul band's 11 album releases to-date. On An
Introduction To The New Mastersounds Vol.2 you will find heavy grooves galore,
cool songwriting, a top notch sound and a natural smartness which is fairly
unequalled in the genre. What more can you ask for! CD/vinyl on Légère
Recordings.
A couple of years ago when
The New Mastersounds were touring & recording in Spain,
guitarist/bandleader,
Eddie Roberts joined forces with
The Sweet Vandals' rhythm section, adding
Chip Wickham's (Nightmares On Wax, Rae & Christian, The Pharcyde)
world-class flute and
Taz Modi's funktastic organ from Leeds/UK, and he sensed that this could be
the beginning of something special.
Eddie Roberts & The Fire Eaters - as the combo was called - started
recording an album together in 2010 with Eddie producing and
Burn! is proof that he was right! This highly acclaimed album really does
deliver presenting future classic versions of acid jazz & soul tunes like I
Believe In Miracles, Lope Song & Lonely For You Baby plus a clutch of original
tunes such as Gutterball, Booga Lou (a tribute to Lou Donaldson) & The Skunk.
Burn! takes you way back to the times when jazz had soul and there was freedom
in the rhythm. CD/vinyl on
Légère Recordings / CD on
P-Vine in Japan.
Singer/songwriter/guitarist,
Sam Hare's critically acclaimed debut album
Down To The Sea features eleven self-penned originals which draw on Blues,
Country & Southern Soul - an English version of
Americana, a ‘real’ sounding rootsy album. A preview copy of Down To The Sea was
quickly picked up by Robert Elms on BBC London, who was so impressed by the
authentic sound of what he heard that he invited Sam to come in for an interview
and live acoustic session. Every Wednesday evening Sam hosts electric blues jam
at
The Alley Cat in Soho, London & at Floripa in Old St. London on the last
Tuesday in every month and he gigs either solo or
with his band which features Joe Glossop
on Hammond organ, Fergus Hare on bass and Ed Green on drums.
CD on Sam's SJH label.
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