Artist description Totally original instrumental band made up of your traditional line-up of Drums,Guitar, Keys,Bass & Saxes but with each member being a multi instrumentalist the sound is supplemented with more exotic instruments including hand percussion, accordion,mandolin etc.. Adam our horn player is proficient on all the horns including clarinet and that gives us broad scope in the front line.We all primarily come from a jazz background hence the improv nature however each has akeen interest in world musics and cultures. Each of us feature prominently in the world music scene here in Melbourne. The idea of the band is to throw all our collective influences into a big hat and rather than sounding like a world music band we hope that we achieve a sound that is Melbourne Australia.Dancing is important, we are jazzers but this band is funky and we like to make people dance also.

Music Style Jazzy Funk/World

Musical Influences Everything from Coltrane- Baba Maal, Ernest Ranglin, Medeski Martin & Wood,Miles Davis,PopRai Music, Arabic, Indian, Afro-Cuban, African Gamalan

Similar Artists We honestly believe we sound like no other. Perhaps some of the Hammond driven acid jazz or rare groove.

Artist History Conceived in May 98 when Johnny the guitar player returned from living in Asia and he and I (Doug) sat down and started writing some tunes.

Group Members Doug Kelly-Drumset & Percussion,Johnny Betros-Guitars & Percussion, Adam Simmons- Saxes, Masayoshi Okubo- Basses & Percussion, Chris Pascoe- Keyboards, Accordion & Perc.

Instruments As Above

Albums To be released in about Oct 99

Press Reviews Still a bit early for this although there has been some positive reports in the Entertainment Guide section of The Age Melbourne

Location Melbourne, Victoria - Australia

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