The critically acclaimed TG Collective was born in September 2006, bringing together a spirited brew of young, Birmingham-based performers. Based around the much-admired Trio Gitano, this dynamic young ensemble was founded by Jamie Fekete and Sam Slater - two of the three guitars of Trio Gitano, whose debut album Who Ate All The Tapas? dropped in at No.4 in the Sunday Times' Records of the Year.
From Applecross in the West Highlands of Scotland, Derek produces a blend of Funk, Blues and Afrobeat with a twist of Celtic flavour including occasional Gaelic content. Loaded with driving fretless bass rhythms and lots of guitar. Listen to '10 Out Of Illusion' for a view from the croft as told in the dawn of the 21st century.
To get the vaguest idea, visit: www.thebananasessions.co.uk or www.myspace.com/thebananasessions. Band members:
Roberta Pia
Calum Wood
Tom Pickles
Calum McIntyre
New project by Girls Names drummer Neil, also featuring other members of Girls Names for live shows. Sea Pinks is inspired by beach glass, cushion grass and ghost guitars. A full length cassette album and download is now available via Cass/Flick. http://seapinks.muxtape.com
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Hoshal Patrick are a London-based unsigned two-man duo consisting of Alex Mummery and James Shedden. They started making music shortly after meeting in Cambridge in 2005. They now live in North London where they write, record, produce and perform their songs.
Jack Rose is a guitarist, originally from Virginia, USA. In the mid '90s he joined the noise/drone group Pelt with Patrick Best and Mike Gangloff. Over the course of ten years and a dozen records, Pelt transformed slowly from an electric group, heavily influenced by Sonic Youth, the Dead C and Theater of Eternal Music-style minimalism to an acoustic group showing the strong influence of John Fahey. Rose, meanwhile, relocated to Philadelphia and began to take fingerpicking seriously.
TOMMY CASTRO (1955/San Jose, CA – ) and his music sit squarely at the centre of an evolving tradition of rock and blues. Castro, winner of the 2008 Blues Music Award for Entertainer Of The Year, is famed not only for his hard-hitting, impassioned vocals, soaring guitar work and his blues-infused, rocking R&B sound, but also for his striking, original songwriting and exhilarating stage show. According to The San Francisco Chronicle, “Castro navigates seriously funky Southern soul, gritty big city blues and scorching rock…his silvery guitar licks simultaneously sound familiar and fresh.”
Ital, musician of chilean origin, sound engineer, label manager of Antu Records Chile, producer of Psytrance music and dj, has been in contact for more than 13 years in the musical world, starting his carrier like a guitar player, going through several styles of popular music, until he arrived to his true passion: Psychedelic trance music. He started the year 2001 with his friend Andrés Rodillo with whom he got involved into the production of Psytrance electronic music, forming one of the pioneering projects of the local scene: “Metatron”.
