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Though none from the four users from the Mighty Imperials was older than 18 if they sat down in the Desco Records studios in 1999 to focus on the music for Thunder Chicken, these were talented plenty of to entice gospel singer Joe Henry to include his voice to four …

Damon Aaron is a triple threat — a singer/songwriter/maker — but he’s a perfectionist, too. That’s area of the cause it required this “soul-folk” vocalist 14 years to finally concern his full-length debut. Another cause can be that Aaron is a lot in demand being a sideman. Divine Styler, Breakestra, …

A Staten Island-based Afro-beat, soul-jazz, and funk instrumental ensemble, the Budos Music group came jointly at a jam program hosted by Brooklyn’s Afro-beat kings, Antibalas. Focusing on horn-driven world root base funk, the music group has a relatively fluctuating lineup which includes David Man and Andrew Greene on trumpet, Cochemea …

When NY retro-funk label Desco shut its doorways, co-founder Phillipe Lehman started up a fresh label, Spirit Fire, that was dedicated to launching only the type of rough, organic, lower-fidelity funk Lehman recommended. Calypso Ruler & the Spirit Investigators were the very first music group to concern a full-length record …

Created by breaks fanatic Kilometers Tackett, Breakestra is really a constantly morphing hip-hop orchestra located in LA. The group arrived collectively in 1997-1997 around Tackett’s DJ gigs in a coffeehouse. A multi-instrumentalist whose focus on cello offers made an appearance on recordings by B.B. Ruler, Macy Grey, and Dark Eyed …

Most likely the farthest away any kind of children’s record ever got, The Stark Reality Discovers Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop descended about unwitting preteens in 1970, because of Boston’s public television station WGBH and something of its producers, Hoagy Bix Carmichael. The boy of America’s most celebrated songwriter, Carmichael conceived …

Although name connotes a lady lead, Connie Price & the Keystones is actually a project helmed by Los Angeles-based guitarist/producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Ubick (of Breakestra fame) and his friend trumpeter/arranger Todd M. Simon. Ubick, who performed a lot of the equipment for the “group” within the studio room, simply wished an …