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June 26th: SpeakLOW, MFF & others @ Jazz-A-Palooza

zephirnl — Sun, 16 May 2010 15:42:56 +0000

Saturday June 26th, the third edition of the annual Utrecht Jazz Festival Jazz-A-Palooza will take place at various locations in Utrecht. Among others, I guess SpeakLOW is the band you will dig most if you are reading this, and of course Euro Cinema.

We have the honor to finish the festival with our Funky Fresh blend of old & new funk from far and near, smashed in your ears to make your feet move.

After party @ SJU: Mama’s Funky Flow (cptNemo & Zephir)

Damage: ? euros. (RSVP @ last.fm)

[review] Dalindèo & Timo Lassy (Ricky Tick)

zephirnl — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:52:37 +0000

Ricky Tick is a label that is not constanly on my radar, although they consistently release quality jazz and the occasional funk/soul album (stance brothers). With the releases discussed in this review, by Dalindèo and Timo Lassy, they still manage to show their passion for quality and soul in jazz. Both albums display energy and composing skills, combined with obvious joy in performance.

Another common denominator is that they both feature one amazing guest vocalist on two equally amazing tracks. The enchanting Bajka performs the vocals on ‘soundtrack for the sound eye’, adding extra depth and mystery to the in itself already cinematic backdrop of dalindèo’s orchestra. For Timo Lassy, golden boy Jose James pours some dark syrupy soul out over the jazz grooves laid down by Lassy and fellow musicians.

But don’t think that the only good thing about these albums is the vocal addition of two jazz greats. Dalindeo does a great job of scoring unseen dark jazz scenes with authentic sounds that are fresh and youthful at the same time. This also applies to Timo Lassy, albeit in his own genre of swinging uptempo jazz.

Being more of a funk/soul head myself I am not able to pin the genre, but I do know that of the similar artists I am familiar with Lassy is on par with Benjamin Hermann as far as I’m concerned. Also, I definitely like José James better on this than on his latest solo offering. The band that springs to mind as a reference for Dalindèo, maybe too obvious, is Cinematic Orchestra, sans electronics. But this should be taken as a compliment!

Sept 25th Mama's Funky Flow @ F*dge (SJU)

zephirnl — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:29:10 +0000

UPDATE: Bands were swapped, and then subsequently the new band for this date cancelled. So the band is still tba.

The MadFreshF*dge friday night experience with masters of the raw vibe, Mama’s Funky Flow @ F*dge (SJU). Before we unleash our freshest flavours to light the floor on fire, Piscine Bleue will jazz-groove their way into your nervous system with their infectious and intelligent tripdubdrumnjazz.

Atmospherical groove oriented trip hop-dub-drum & bass in a jazz line up. obstinate wide atmospheres are generated with the aid of effect gear and samples. The music of piscine bleue can be characterized as both dance and jazz.

With: Mama’s Funky Flow (cptNemo & Zephir)

Band: Piscine Bleue -> moved to October 2nd!

Damage: 22:00-23:00 free, after that 5 euros. (RSVP @ last.fm)

Live DJ Set @ Club Djazzive Deluxe 14-03-2008 pt4

zephirnl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:59 +0000

This is part 4! for a description check out part 1.

Live DJ Set @ Club Djazzive Deluxe 14-03-2008 pt3

zephirnl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:59:05 +0000

This is part 3! for a description check out part 1.

Live DJ Set @ Club Djazzive Deluxe 14-03-2008 pt2

zephirnl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:58:10 +0000

This is part 2! for a description check out part 1.

Live DJ Set @ Club Djazzive Deluxe 14-03-2008 pt1

zephirnl — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:38:24 +0000

This new set is different from everything we’ve done before. For this special occasion as part of the Utrecht Jazz Fest, we shared the floor not only with our shaking & grooving visitors but also with DJ’s Bounce & Izm. On the poster it said ‘Battle’ but in the end it was a nice collaboration in which there were 2 DJ booths flanking the dancefloor and five DJ’s spinning their funkiest and most danceable tunes.

Check the results here (this is part 1)!