Friday 26 June 2015

Sola Rosa All You Need To Know

From his humble beginnings experimenting with a 4-track recorder at the ripe age of 19, Sola Rosa frontman Andrew Spraggon has cultivated over 15 years of rich and well-crafted melodic beats. Fusing a rotating mix of hip-hop, jazz, reggae, latin, neo-soul and funk topped with an assortment of diverse vocalists, Sola Rosa have released five critically acclaimed long players to date.

The latest construct of this collective sees this five-piece strip away their collaborations with an array of session musicians, choosing instead to record together as a complete band, which has allowed them to enjoy a more simple and methodical creative process.

Currently Sola Rosa is made up of five key individuals. Matt Short joined Sola Rosa in 2004 as an incredibly accomplished session player, who has previously played with the Opensouls, Tyra & The Tornadoes and Vietnam War. Ben White an accomplished jazz guitarist followed suit in 2007. Vocalist, producer and MAINZ teacher Cherie Mathieson joined the band in late 2011 as their touring female vocalist. Mathieson has collaborated with celebrated producers and artists like Mark de Clive Lowe, Dego (4hero), Lanu (The Bamboos), Zed Bias and closer to home with The Relaxomatic Project, Solaa, Manuel Bundy, Jason Eli ( Joosika) and Lewis McCallum.

The latest addition is British artist and The Streets co-vocalist Kevin Mark Trail. Trail has collaborated with local jazz wizard Nathan Haines, international heavyweights Nitin Sawhney, Estelle and Black Twang and landed support slots for N.E.R.D, Massive Attack and Angie Stone.

Keyboard player, percussion, computer whiz, and all-round beat maestro Andrew Spraggon began performing and touring for the first time in his early 20s, as the lead vocalist and guitarist of indie rock band Cicada. Six years later, in 1998, Spraggon made the leap from 4-track to software and never looked back. He initially performed solo, but quickly recruited a revolving door of Sola Rosa collaborative incarnations and a band of talented session players that included players from Fat Freddy’s Drop, Opensouls and Ladi6. Spraggon was also a member of Dimmer from 2000 – 2004. Most recently he has produced local acts including Batucada Sound Machine and Tahuna Breaks.

Over the years Sola Rosa have enjoyed many achievements in New Zealand, including a #1 on iTunes and the Independent NZ Music Chart with their 2009 smash record ‘Get It Together’. It reached #15 in the album charts and went on to achieve Gold status. The awards in Sola Rosa’s cabinet include Best Independent Release in the 2000 bNet Music Awards for the ‘Entrance To Skyway’ (EP) andBest Electronica Album in 2001 for ‘Solarized’. They also received nominations at the Vodafone NZ Music Awards for Best Dance/Electronica Album in 2006 for ‘Moves On’, Best Producer and Best Dance/Electronic Album in 2009 for ‘Get It Together’ and Best Electronic Album in 2012 for ‘Low and Behold, High and Beyond’.

Internationally, the lead single from ‘Get It Together -Del Ray’ was picked up for a number of compilations – including DJ Ease’s edition of Stereo Deluxe’s ‘Coming Home’series, and Putumayo’s Latin Beats compilation. The album’s full release in Europe and the USA, along with a successful debut tour of both, received attention from radio stations such as KCRW (L.A.) and Funkhaus Europa (EU) across both continents, was picked out as Marco Werman’s album of the year for 2011, and several of the album’s tracks were licensed for use on episodes of Criminal Minds, The Protector, Gossip Girl and Mob Wives.

Sola Rosa’s sixth album Magnetics sees the band introduce a glorious assortment of fresh new vocalists from all over the globe: Kevin Mark Trail (UK), Sharlene Hector (UK), Jordan Rakei (AUS), Georgia Anne Muldrow (US), Tawiah (UK), Noah Slee (AUS) and Oliver Daysoul (UK). Expect a tour both locally and internationally on release.


Sola Rosa continue to experiment and evolve, which is a true testament to their success over the years. Expect big things this Summer.

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 26th June 2015

Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland show dated 26th June 2015. A link to the show can be found here: 



The Boogie Wonderland Show -25/06/2015 Playlist
Hour 1: 8 to 9pm
Artist
Song
Gus Pirelli Ft Andre Espeut
 Good Feeling
Mossia
 Mowa
Tonton Etienno
 Soin Aya
Arno Lest
 Nousseh
The Singers and Musicians of Washington High School
 The Ladder
Dr Haki R Madhubuti
 Rain Forest
Charles Mingus
 Moves
Gizmo
Lift Me Up
3 WINANS BROTHERS feat 4 CLARK SISTERS
Dance  (Louie Vega Funk House Long Radio)
ComixXx
Slow Motion
Hiatius Kaiyote
 By Fire
Hour 2: 9 to 10pm
Artist
Song
Sola Rosa
 Spinning Top (Flamingosis_Remix)
Sola Rosa
 Can We Get It Together feat Noah Slee
Sola Rosa Interview
 Part 1
Sola Rosa
 Wiggle Ft Olivier Daysoul (Mop Mop Remix)
SOLA ROSA
Til The Sun (feat Jordan Rakei)
Sola Rosa Interview
 Part 2
SOLA ROSA
To The Ocean feat Kevin Mark Trail
SOLA ROSA
Too Long In The Sun feat Olivier_Daysoul
Sola Rosa Interview
 Part 3
Sola Rosa
Turn Around ft Iva Lamkum (DJ Alias Remix)
SOLA ROSA
Inspired (feat Noah Slee)
Sola Rosa Interview
 Part 4
SOLA ROSA
Never Too Far feat Georgia Anne Muldrow
SOLA ROSA
Right On Time (feat Tawiah)
Hour 3: 10 to 11pm
Artist
Song
A Taste of Honey
 Sayonara
A Taste of Honey
  Lies
A Taste of Honey
  We've Got the Groove
DMX Krew
 Funk Steps
Vague Recollection
 Keep on (Tom Knight Remix)
King of Rats feat. Krystal
 Gifted (Quentin Van Honk Remix)
Giorgio Luceri
 Love is a Storm
Mix
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High Wolf
 Wild At Heart

Friday 19 June 2015

James Brown is Annie All You Need to Know

JBiA (James Brown Is Annie) formed in a piano bar, rehearse next to a sex shop, and take their name from a Saturday Night Live Eddie Murphy sketch.
In 2014, the band received investment from Creative Scotland to record its debut album with Average White Band saxophonist Molly Duncan producing. 

Mastered by Atlantic Records' Gene Paul, Average White Band's Alan Gorrie contributed a song (debut single, Ask Your Doctor), exclusively for the band's album, to be released on 22nd February - 40 years to the day AWB's Pick Up The Pieces topped the American charts. 

Regular recipients of national press and national radio air-play, JBiA have opened shows for the likes of AWB, Little Feat, Electric 6, Spin Doctors, Robert Cray, Public Service Broadcasting, to name but a few. They opened again for The Average White Band on May 8th at the 02, Glasgow.

They will be debuting in London on the 20th June at The PizzaExpress Jazz Club, joined by Molly Duncan himself.


Their self-titled album was released on Friday 24 April. 

Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 18th June 2015

Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland show dated 18th June 2015. A link to the show can be found here: 




The Boogie Wonderland Show -18/06/2015 Playlist
Hour 1: 8 to 9pm
Artist
Song
Alexander O'Neal
 The Lovers
Ryoma Takemasa
 Mini House Groove 4
Sekitova
 Inverted Qualia
Ken Hayakawa
 City of Dog
Nottingham Jazz Orchestra
Sixes and Severns
Joy
 Martini Sweet
Billy Jenkins and The Voice of God Collective
 High Street  Saturday
Tortured Soul
 Dont Lead Me On (OriginalMix)
The Illumination Experience
 Get Down
OPOLOPO
 Round and Round feat  Diane Charlemagne
Hour 2: 9 to 10pm
Artist
Song
JBIA
 Fast Eddie
JBIA Interview
 Part 1
JBIA
 U GOT 2 GET UP 2 GET DOWN
JBIA Interview
 Part 2
JBIA
 ASK YOUR DOCTOR
JBIA Interview
 Part 3
JBIA
 Jane Badler
JBIA Interview
 Part 4
JBIA
 Popcorn
JBIA Interview
 Part 5
JBIA
 Yasmine Bleeth
The O'Jays
 Back Stabbers (1972  Disco Purrfection Version)
Hour 3: 10 to 11pm
Artist
Song
Salt N Pepa
 Tramp
Ornette Coleman
 Eventually
Ornette Coleman
 Lonely Woman
Ornette Coleman
 Music Always
Master Concertino Milano
 Rare DiscoMiniMix
Bodhi
 Polysizer
Cera Alba
 She Flows
Gus Pirelli Ft Andre Espeut
 Good Feeling

Friday 12 June 2015

Julie Kjaer All You Need to Know

Saxophonist and flautist Julie Kjær’s edgy and thoughtfull playing and ‘dark, otherworldly imagery’ (Jazzwise) has become incerasingly evident around Europe, inhabiting ground between composition and free improv.

Since she graduated from the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus DK in 2007, she has played with various jazz groups and ensembles in Denmark and England.

She is a member of the Danish experimental bigband Blood Sweat Drum’n Bass, with which she has recorded several cd’s and toured internationally with amongst others Dave Douglas, Arve Henriksen, Palle Mikkelborg and Jørgen munkeby.

She has toured internationally with with Django Bates and his band StoRMChaser and can be heard on his cd: “Spring Is Here (Shall We Dance?)” (Lost Marble’08).

She has played with Aarhus Jazz Orchestra (then Klüvers Bigband) on various projects amongst others a tour in Denmark featuring American trumpeter Terell Stafford.

She plays with London Improvisers Orchestra, Paulo Duartes Overground Collective and Jeff Chambers variable n-tet.

Own projects:

In 2009 she released her debut cd “Baglæns ind i det forkerte rum” with her danish quartet.

Currently she is working on a new trio project with two of the most interesting and inventive improvisers on the english avantgarde scene, John Edwards  and Steve Noble and on a project with the Danish-English sextet ‘Pierette Ensemble’. The ensemble’s cd will be released spring 2014.

She is a leader and co-leader of various ensembles and groups. Amongst others: Pierette Ensemble, Cardboard Whale, Julie som en engelsk kvinde, Julie Kjær quartet, Musson Kjær Duo, Wigdump, Witte/Kjær Duo.

With her english quintet, Cardboard Whale, she has already made an impression on the British Jazz-scene. Of her F-IRE session with the quintet at the Others, London, Joseph Kassman-Todd wrote [Jazzwise, Dec ‘09]:

“Dark, otherworldly imagery was palpable as Kjær on alto saxophone and Dylan Bates on cornet interwove folkloric melodies like the unravelling of a malign Heinrich Hoffmann nursery rhyme” … “Kjær’s playing reached Braxton-esque levels of surreal linguistic expression. This was a synthesis of dark Scandinavian folk with the Art Ensemble of Chicago.”


She plays with various other duos, trios etc. and has played with people like: Veryan Weston, Steve Beredsford, Oren Marshall, Chris Biscoe, John Edwards, Steve Noble, Steve Watts, Gimo Mendes.


Track Listings for The Boogie Wonderland Show 11th June 2015

Below is the track listing for the Boogie Wonderland show dated 11th June 2015. A link to the show can be found here: 




The Boogie Wonderland Show -11/06/2015 Playlist
Hour 1: 8 to 9pm
Artist
Song
Guru
 No Time To Play
Santamaria
 Lets Go To Afrika
Chave D'ouro
 Pai da Crianca (Quem Sera)
Jona
 Eu Fui a Tropa
Paradox Ensemble
 Entanglement
Gold Of My Own
 Breathless
Silence Blossoms
 He
Jay McGee
 Good Feeling
Maysa
 Back 2 Love
MO HORIZONS
 Around Ya Flamingo Star (Hippie Remix)
Sheila Ford
Every Day of The Week (Joey Negro Club Mix)
Hour 2: 9 to 10pm
Artist
Song
Pierette Ensemble
 Pudding Mill Lane
Julie Kjaer Interview
 Part 1
Julie Kjaer
 Alto Madness
Julie Kjaer Interview
 Part 2
Julie Kjaer
3_1
Julie Kjaer Interview
 Part 3
Julie Kjaer
 Lat
Julie Kjaer Interview
 Part 4
Pierette Ensemble
 Impro I
Julie Kjaer Interview
 Part 5
Julie Kjaer
 Ikke Mere Ballade
Hour 3: 10 to 11pm
Artist
Song
Will Smith
 Miami
The Whispers
 And The Beat Goes On
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
 Freedom
Freedom
 Get Up and Dance
JOAO CESER
 5TH DIMENSION
KINK
 TAIL OF PRISMA
Inthemixdrop

Mix
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Makadem
 Salaam
CHRISTIAN BURKHARDT
 GIN TRONIC
Mix 53
Artist
Song
Ce Ce Peniston feat. Joyriders
 Finally (Tiger Stripes Remix)
Paul Oakenfold
 Full Moon Party (Thomas Datt Remix)
 Paul Oakenfold
 Southern Sun (Moe Aly Remix)
Tilt vs Paul van Dyk
 Rendezvous (Tilt's Quadraphonic Instrumental Mix)
Planet Perfecto Knights
 ResuRection (Paul Oakenfold Full On Fluoro Mix)