Redwood Entertainment means great music. In addition to the wonderful music they deliver did you know that Redwood Entertainment also represents many talented actors!
Below is just a small sample of the many talented actors that Redwood Entertainment represents.
Frank Moran
Andrea Mezvinsky
Claire Carter
Eric Reid Shroeder
Alfredo Diaz
Visit Redwood Entertainment at www.redwoodentertainment.com and see all the great music, and acting, talent they represent!
Derrick N. Ashong will be anchoring a new
show to debut in the second half of 2013 covering politics, cultural events,
the big headlines of the day and the entertainment and social media trends that
matter most to young Hispanics and the broader youth demographic. The show will
be in English and will debut on Fusion—an ABC News/Disney and Univision
landmark joint venture news and lifestyle network.
Redwood Entertainment represents some of the best independent musical acts, and we want to introduce some of them to you. Enjoy the music below from several of the groups that Redwood Entertainment works with.
Following GI Blythe’s recent announcement to provide periodic free music downloads of songs from their successful CD release Lost in Space, and the offering of their first, “Run Rabbit Run,” they are now providing a second free song written by Geoff Blythe. The title cut “Lost in Space” is an ethereal and majestic mosaic that charts a man’s existential journey through the cosmic fabric of life and creation only to realize that he is “lost.” In the wake of a highly successful national radio campaign and last year’s triumphant CD release tour of the East Coast, beginning with a CD release party at Connolly’s Klub 45 in New York City and closing with a CD release concert at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY, GI Blythe will be offering further free song downloads in the months to come, so stay tuned! As many fans are already aware, GI Blythe is a group of seasoned musical pros from a variety of impressive musical backgrounds who’ve come together to fuse a high-energy hybrid of wit and horn-centric good-time Rock, which is amply demonstrated on Lost in Space.
Lost in Space is an exhilarating introduction to a band that has already piqued some discerning ears and raised some diverse eyebrows. Along with the humorously macabre “Run Rabbit Run” and the imagistic “Lost in Space” the CD contains other original tunes written by Blythe, Archie Brown & Jim Paterson—including the instrumental “Freedom March” with some swinging, scorching Jazzy moments—and their funky and haunting “The Narrative of G. Bristol Groot (Vampyre)” (also a video available on YouTube), which like many cuts on the album just might bring you out of your chair. So be forewarned: before you put on this music be sure to put on your dancing shoes!
GI Blythe is a band of exceptional players from the U.K. and the U.S. that have outrageous chops and share a pure joy of making music that is both exuberant and street savvy. Several members of GI Blythe have worked together in various music settings over the years—including Dexy’s Midnight Runners and Black 47—and along with Geoffrey Blythe have collectively played and/or recorded with a number of diverse artists from Elvis Costello, Paul Simon and Nick Lowe to Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and The Funk Brothers (of Motown fame), to name but a few. The band’s foundation is provided by drummer ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬Crispin ‘the Pump’ Taylor and bassist Joe ‘Bear Claw’ Burcaw—and these guys cook! They provide a solid pocket that energetically propels the band and allows lead singer Archie Brown and the horns of Blythe and ‘Big Jim’ Paterson (trombone & backup vocals), along with the keys of Pete Levin and guitars of Larry Baeder, to alternately punch the rhythm section and float above the smooth ride effortlessly. Although the band’s players are accomplished pros, they retain a raucous, authentic post-punk attitude resulting in a sound that’s soulful, sometimes Jazzy (with tasteful flashes of dissonance—and a funky beat!), rockin’ and audacious—all at the same time!
What/When: “Lost in Space” available NOW for FREE! Where: Download at www.giblythe.com
Contact Info for GI Blythe: Janet Castiel, Redwood Entertainment, Inc., 212 543-9998 info@redwoodentertainment.com,www.redwoodentertainment.com
“Tampa Bay’s most seasoned and professional original singer/songwriter.” – MusicTampaBay.com
A distinctive acoustic guitar style with the resonate growl of a baritone voice is reason enough to listen to the music of Fremont John. Add to it his penchant for taking the classic songs we all know and creating them in his own style and you have a captivating show of musical ability. Developing his musical talents since age 5, he’s played the music of the classical greats to the rock hall of famers and now pen’s his own music with the richness of his life experiences weaving a variety of styles into his own.
As an electric guitar rock-n-roller during his early career Fremont John toured extensively throughout the Midwest with his band Innervision. Taking a break from regular performance and touring for nearly 25 years, he continued to perform sporadically at venues throughout Michigan while writing some of the songs that became part of his first CD, ACOUSTIC THUNDER, released in 1999. That same year Fremont John returned to full time performance, honing a professional music career on the stages of the popular Key West venues. He continues to be a favorite both solo and trio performer at Sloppy Joe’s, The Bull, Virgilio’s and Willy T’s in Key West where he still does a monthly tour.
Record producer Larry Baeder, wowed by FJ’s songwriting, initiated a collaboration with deeply talented seasoned musicians and recording technicians in NYC’s Pyramid Studio in 2004. The 2005 indie CD release of TIMELINE included Richard Crooks (Dr John, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan) on drums, Fernando Saunders (Lou Reed, Pat Benatar, Jeff Beck, Jan Hammer) on bass, Charlie Giordano (Bruce Springsteen, Pat Benatar) adding keyboard, Crispin Cioe (Joe Cocker, Rolling Stones) on sax, with Larry Baeder (James Montgomery, Carly Simon, Apollo Theater House) adding electric guitar licks. This collaboration resulted in a national radio campaign with airplay in many US cities and global airplay via hundreds of Internet stations. The CD received strong reviews in the industry and continues to enjoy strong sales at live shows and online.
GUITAR SONGS, the first all-instrumental effort, was brought on by years of requests from fans for “more guitar!”. The CD features Fremont John’s identifiable melodic and distinctive acoustic style that captivates his live audience. Tampa Bay’s premier online music e-zine, The Bay Buzz (www.thebaybuzz.org) writes, “John’s sound is clean and his acoustic lead tone is wonderful; clear and crisp but also warm. And then, “If you enjoy melodic acoustic guitar, buy this disc. “A good instrumental CD is difficult to make but this one (Guitar Songs) is excellent.” – Pete Gallagher, WMNF 88.5FM, Tampa, FL
Fremont John’s solo live performance is a relaxed and comfortable way to kick back and enjoy the music. Whether it’s a remake of a classic or an original selection, the guitar work is sure to please and the stories surrounding the songs are delightfully entertaining. When backed by a rhythm section for a trio sound it’s sure to be a rocking good time as he incorporates an ‘electric’ sound into his trademark Blue Taylor acoustic guitar. With an uncanny ability to ‘read’ his audience, Fremont John tailors his vast musical selections to the mood of his listeners like a master entertainer.
A collection of uniquely arranged classic hits and well penned originals ranging from foot tapping rock to thought provoking ballads, and of course, the impressive guitar work.
He will return to his home in Northern Michigan September 2012 to host the Second Annual Fremont John and Friends Concert to benefit the local food bank. Last year’s show raised over $7,000 and took in over 800lbs of food to benefit the hungry in Mason County. A full stage show with a 9 piece backing line up delighted last year’s audience. The second show promises to offer even more as he continues to pull in the younger set in the community for exposure.
Fremont John has received many accolades from industry notables to his ‘Contrarian’ fan club. His uniquely down to earth and easy-going style makes him a sought after performer across the country.
The Jambalaya Brass Band is New York City's ultimate New Orleans party band. They are available for performances with a s few as 5 pieces or as many as 9 pieces. Since 1998 they've been kickin' it hard with a flavor straight from the streets of New Orleans, paying their respects to the unique musical traditions of New Orleans incorporating a special blend of R & B, Funk, Gospel Traditional Jazz, Zydeco, Latin, Hip Hop and Be-Bop. They will take you on a historical journey through the New Orleans brass band tradition. It is a joyous romp starting from the early beginnings with Buddy Bolden, Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong and ending up with their own modern sounds influenced by the Rebirth, Dirty Dozen and New Birth brass bands.
In addition to recording for the Warner Bros. film, Where The Wild Things Are, two commercials for Southern Comfort, Treme Life a documentary by James Demaria, and the ColoursTV documentary film about Leah Daughtry (CEO of the National Democratic Convention 2008), they have played The 2nd Line Across the Brooklyn Bridge, A Jazz Funeral for Coney Island, Riverhead Mardi Gras Festival, WSME-FM Backyard BBQ, B.B. King Blues Club NYC, Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square, Sullivan Hall, 150th anniversary of Downstate Medical Center, Columbia Festival of Winds, Huntington Summer Arts Festival (opening for Nathan and the Zydeco Cha-chas), Good Day New York on Fox 5 NYC for Mardi Gras, Britney Spears' Super Bowl Party, Mardi Gras for the New York Knicks half-time show, a New York Liberty's half-time show at Madison Square, 52nd Street Americana Jazz Festival, Tribeca Blues, The Bayou Restaurant(Mt.Vernon,NY), Brooklyn Conservatory, Cornelia Street Cafe, The Mardi Gras Restaurant, Big Daddy's Restaurant, Chelsea Brewing Company, Jacques-Imo Café, Town of Hemstead Summer Concert Series, Summer Plaza Series (Brooklyn Arts Council), Prospect Park Halloween Event, Princeton University Reunion, Fulton Street Beat, Bloomingdales Department Store, Brooklyn To The Bayou a benefit for Tipitina's Artist Relief Foundation, Dinosaur BBQ-NYC, NYC Village Halloween Parade and has had Branford Marsalis sit in with them.
Our new CD On The Funky Side, produced by Ric Frank, was released January 15, 2013. It was recorded at Mad Hands Studio in Teaneck, New Jersey, engineered by Mike Cullens and mixed by Mike Cullens at Mad Hands Studio. It has placed on the national charts CMJ report and Roots Music Report and is currently receiving airplay on over 50 broadcast radio stations.
It's A Jungle Out There, produced by Ric Frank and Larry Baeder, was released November 9. 2010. It was recorded at Pyramid Recording Studios in New York and two cuts were recorded in New Orleans at Ultrasonic Studios in August 2005 just before Katrina. Todd Hemleb engineered the New York sessions and Steve Reynolds engineered the New Orleans session. Todd Hemleb and Larry Baeder did the mixing at Pyramid Studios in New York. Special guests include Kirk Joseph, Charles Joseph, Dinerral Shavers, Raymond Williams, Roderick Paulin, Ajay Mallery and Women of the Calabash. It placed on the national charts: CMJ report, Roots Music Report, and Cashbox in additon to receiving airplay on 85 broadcast radio stations.
THE BAND
Ric Frank - leader, tenor Sax, vocals, zydeco tie, percussion Ric has performed with Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ray Santos Caribbean Music Experience, Louie Ramirez, Henry Fiol,Treme Brass Band, Hot 8 Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band Armando Manznero, Yolandita Monge, Bobby Rodriguez Y Nueva Compania , American Renaissance Theatre Chamber Ensemble, Johnny Allen, Michael J. Packer, Todd Wolfe, Dallas Fisher,'Tuff' Jeff Salen, Steve Tintweiss,Jerome Callet's Stratosphere Big Band and sits in regularly with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band in NYC. Ric has received grants from, Meet The Composer, Van Horne Foundation For Excellence In Teaching and ASCAP Plus Awards. Ric plays the RS Berkeley Virtuoso VIT2005G
Steve Gluzband - trumpet, vocals, percussion Steve has performed/recorded with Ray Barretto (20 years) and Johnny Pacheco (5 years), on Celia Cruz's Grammy Award winning Ritmo en el Corazon with Ray Barretto and on Talking Heads' double platinum CD Naked, on TV shows Blues Clues and MTV Road Rules, in feature films Happy Accidents and Mad Hot Ballroom, and on TV commercials for the NY State Lottery, Best Man on Broadway and McDonald's, to name but a few.
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone, vocals, percussion Curtis is a co-founder of the Jazz Passengers and has also performed with The Lounge Lizards, Charlie Haden, Bill Frissel, Louis Bellson Big Band, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Sheryl Crow, Don Byron, and leads his own group Catfish Corner.
Ralph Hamperian - tuba/sousaphone Ralph has performed/toured with Mingus alumnus Jaki Byard in duo, trio and big band settings across the country and in Europe, The Lionel Hampton Orchestra in many of the major European jazz festivals including JVC-Nice, on Broadway in Chicago, and with his own group Ralph Hamperian's Tuba D'Amore.
Chauncey Yearwood- bass drum, cymbal, drum set Chauncey has worked with Bill Ware's Urban Vibes and Vibes Trio, Yah Supreme & Brohemian, and Peter Barr's Drums & Percussion. Chauncey also works with The Pimps of Joytime, Escort, Fu Arkestra, James Kinney and African Underground Allstars and with Dj Concerned and Tha Itch at the Lovebeat party.
Kevin Raczka-snare drum, cymbal, drum set Kevin has performed, toured or recorded with Breakdown Brass Band, Amayo's Fu-Arkistra, Ikebe Shakedown, The Underground Horns, Pitch Blak Brass, No Small Money Brass Band, The Hungry March Band, Zozo Afrobeat, ?uestlove, The Mandingo Ambassadors, The World Inferno Friendship Society, Mephiskapheles, and The Brazilian Girls amongst many others.
Former Members and others that have performed or recorded with us Kirk Joseph, Charles Joseph, Roderick Paulin, Raymond Williams, Ajay Mallory, Dineral Shavers,Branford Marsalis, Darrell Walker,Shawn Edmonds, Joe Hrbek, Alex Harding, Matt Patuto, Julie Bluestone, Charlie Kolhmeyer, Brian Bonvissuto, Evan Barker, Wayne Goodman, Jose Davila, Andy Burns, Chris Lacinak, Dave Berger, Moses Patrou, Yorel Lashley, Michael Weisberger, Al Acosta, Kevin Blancq, DeShannon Higa, Benny Russell, Lily White, Bob Curtis, Brad Leali, Jason Marshall, Dimetri Moderbaker, Burny Pelsmajer, Bill Dunn, Mike Lewis, Mike Hackett, Chuck MacKinnon, Omar Kabir, Mark Mcgowan, Owen Nestor, Kenny Rampton, Ben Wolkins, Greisha Alexiev, Rob Garcia, Artie Simmons, Joe Daley, Daniel Jodacy, Allison LeBlanc, Tom Leith, Phil Shimmel,Martin Urbach, Brian Drye, Greg Erickson, Chris Rinaman, Earl McIntyre, Kevin Louis, Dorian Parreott, Matt Musselman, Dan Peck, Andrew Barker, Evan Howard, Satoru Ohashi, Andrae Murchison, James Zollar, Frank London, Robert Stringer, T-Bone Davis, Ethan Shorter, Staffor Hunter, Mark Williams, Walt Szymanski, Ron Caswell Taylor Floreth, Dave Butler, Sam Merrick Jakubu Griffin, Herbert McCarver III..
Download The Cliffs for FREE today only! The Cliffs is available for FREE download today only, so download it it for FREE while you can, listen to it, and if you don't enjoy it just delete it from your computer, but you might as well download it while it's FREE! "smokin’ and tasty dub, made with a dry rub of Spanish spices...Refreshing dub licks melt into rich harmonics that ping softly into sweetly picked melodies" --- Hypnagogue https://soundcloud.com/ian-c-bouras/the-cliffs
If you have been wondering where you might find fresh sounds and heavy-duty lyrics that surpass in sum and substance the increasingly monotone world of much of urban music today, search no more. Enter the eclectic and electrifying world of Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège. Their work exemplifies more than music; it's a movement. Yet they are a band of blisteringly creative and talented musicians from a diversity of backgrounds, and they have brought together a dynamic amalgam of musical styles, amply exhibited on their new CD release, AFropolitan.
"Here are musicians, poised with a positive vibe and with lyrics so uplifting that you actually believe . . . a new world mood may emerge from the street and the Net, somehow defying the odds—a spirit of promise and hope and harmony, a spirit that denies dissonance. Soulfège lets us dream such sweet dreams, in vibrant colors."—VanityFair.com
The band is a critically-acclaimed, refreshingly original group of musicians who have synthesized a blend of Hip-Hop, Reggae, Funk, World Beat and West African Highlife music to create a musical mélange of style and substance. This dynamic six-piece ensemble—propelled by drumming phenomenon Stix ‘Mr. Pocket’ Bones, rock-solid Berklee grad & Funk/Rock bassist Alex Staley, Ghanaian percussion prodigy Atta Addo, and keyboard wizard Micah Hulscher—combines driving rhythms, authentic musicianship, the crisp harmonies of Ashong and Jonathan M. Gramling and provocatively elevating lyrics, a combination that transcends even the most imaginative of descriptive capacities. They are a powerful live act and a vivid new voice that has perpetually ignited audiences with their joyous ‘Afropolitan’ fusion.
Derrick N. Ashong & Soulfège embody the pluralistic vision of a new generation of music makers and socially conscious activists. Leader and co-founder Derrick N. Ashong, a.k.a. DNA, dubbed “a YouTube phenom” by the New York Times, is former host of The Derrick Ashong Experience on Oprah radio and Al-Jazeera English’s cutting-edge social media TV show The Stream, where he scooped some of the biggest social change stories in the world today, winning a Webbie & a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Innovation. The Ghana-born, Oprah-endorsed Harvard graduate originally formed Soulfège with college choir mate Jonathan M. Gramling. Subsequently they created Take Back the Mic™, a movement to put meaning back into today's music and to challenge a new generation of youth to find their own voice and take on roles of leadership in society.
"Its [Soulfège’s] members realized they had the platform to reach ears not only with their music—a fusion of thumping African music and rhythms, sweet reggae breezes, funk, and hip-hop—but also with their message." —The Boston Globe
With the advent of 2012, events have been moving at a furious pace for DNA and Soulfège. Among their most recent accomplishments is the launch of their Million Download Campaign which has netted over 50,000 free downloads of songs and remixes from AFropolitan since its end-of-January launch, with downloads from over 50 countries worldwide. Fast Company Magazine recently featured DNA in an interview entitled, “Derrick Ashong on Going Viral Again and Again.” The Campaign held events presenting their innovations in music promotion & distribution as part of “Social Media Week” in New York and Washington DC in February. Ashong was an invited speaker to present the Campaign at Google Headquarters in California during the same month. In the first week of AFropolitan's release on broadcast radio, the album placed in the Top 50 of the JazzWeek World Music Charts, and their short animated film for the song “Love Rain Down” was accepted into the Palm Beach International Film Festival and World Music International Film Festival for 2012. And if all this was not enough, “Easy Does It,” another cut from the CD, took a finalist slot in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest; Ashong was identified by Tonya Pendleton at BlackAmericaWeb.com as one of “Five Brilliant Brothers You Should Know by Now”; the band performed at Club de Madrid’s gala dinner honoring former President Bill Clinton with the Democratic Leadership Award; and more recently, they appeared at the NXNE Music Festival in Toronto.
Soulfège’s music and their social movement have been featured in such major media as VanityFair.com, MTV Africa, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, MNet Africa, ABC Chronicle and BBC Worldservice, reaching 146 million listeners worldwide. See for yourself what all the buzz is about and be sure to download and share their latest CD release, AFropolitan for free at www.derrickashong.com.
"...this weekend's performance by Soulfege at Manhattan's Knitting Factory was a rare treat in these way-ironic days: a full-on groove group powering out songs with upbeat melodies, conveyed with such energy, assuredness, and good will that they transcended the ironic, transformed the conversation, and transported the listener beyond the otherwise dismal and downbeat world around them." -- Vanity Fair.com, April 2008
"Its [Soulfège's] members realized they had the platform to reach ears not only with their music - a fusion of thumping African music and rhythms, sweet reggae breezes, funk, and hip-hop - but also with their message." - The Boston Globe, June 2007
"...the band is an exuberant, sinuous mix of highlife, hip-hop, funk and reggae...Soulfège's message of uplift and theinterconnectedness of cultures is easy to attach to, especially since it goes down so smoothly and funkily." - The Providence Journal, January 2007
"[Soulfège] is truly a global band, and global doesn't just mean "other foreign places" as it usually does; in this case it means "across the planet." - Northeast Performer Magazine, January 2006
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The wildly popular Key West based band, Larry Baeder & The MuseGurus, is Americana Music at its finest. They combine well crafted, timeless songwriting, vocals from the heart and disciplined arrangements, with flashes of virtuosic solos, all amply displayed on their forthcoming self-titled CD release, Larry Baeder & The MuseGurus. The heart of the band is the writing team of the three principals: the crystal clear voice of Dora Gholson, backed by legendary guitarist/producer Larry Baeder and famous French Rocker/Bassist Francois Gehin. The songs are in the great tradition of classic American songwriters. Influenced by old school R&B, Soul Music, Bluegrass, and Americana Rock, the music reflects its own unique, contemporary flavor.
“The MuseGurus have a universal appeal while staying true to their own sound.”—Michael Haskins
Guitarist/Producer/Songwriter Larry Baeder is the real deal. Here is a seasoned, legendary contemporary guitarist with such an impressive musical past that it’s difficult to verbally do justice to his multi-faceted talents and accomplishments. A simple look at his most recent endeavors reflect this diversity: his performance at the Apollo in NYC with Chuck Jackson, Ashford & Simpson and Smokey Robinson; his guitar work on GI Blythe’s recent compelling self-titled EP release, GI Blythe; his production of Jambalaya Brass Band’s well received CD It’s a Jungle Out There; and finally, Larry Baeder & The MuseGurus will be releasing their self-titled highly anticipated collaborative debut CD in the fall of 2011.
Berklee grad Larry Baeder is a gifted and virtuosic guitarist of significant depth, and one whose dizzying, dynamic musical career reads like a who’s who of authentic American music of the past thirty years. He has played guitar with jazz legends Jay McShann, Illinois Jacquet, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, and singer Diane “Mama” Rae. He has performed and recorded with jazz greats Jeremy Stieg and Eddie Gomez. Baeder has collaborated with Evidence recording artist Nora York, and legendary Canadian songwriter Jane Sibery. He also spent five years touring and recording with Capricorn recording artist James Montgomery. During that time Larry played with legendary blues artists Muddy Waters, James Cotton, Junior Wells, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, Matt “Guitar” Murphy, Albert King, and Dan “Elwood Blues” Akroyd, while also producing tracks for several Boston artists. In the recording studio, the late Jimmy Miller, producer for The Rolling Stones, Steve Winwood, Traffic and Blind Faith, included Baeder on much of his later work. By the mid-eighties, Larry was recording sessions with Buddy Guy, James Taylor, and Carly Simon, as well as playing on jingles and film scores. Baeder has performed in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Africa. In addition, he has strong ties to New Orleans and has frequently worked with piano genius Henry Butler as well as other NOLA musicians including Ivan Neville, Brian Stoltz, Rebbecca Berry and Shannon Powell. He has worked with Blues legend Tracy Nelson and is a featured soloist on Heracio “El Negro” Hernandez and Robbie Ameen’s criticlly acclaimed CD Robbie and Negro from the Third World War. Baeder's 2000 solo-artist CD release Maximo Strut reached #5 on the Blues charts nationwide.
Michigan native Dora Gholson, songwriter, co-guitarist and lead vocalist for Larry Baeder & The MuseGurus, is a poetic lyricist and an astonishingly engaging singer. She can turn a one-syllable word into a five-syllable word that encompasses six notes and two octaves and has the vocal agility to sing all around the note and land squarely on pitch. To top it off, Gholson has a rich and heart-felt vocal sound which she employs in a skillful and soulful manner that remains with the listener long after the performance is over. She has been singing most of her life and professionally in the Key West area since 2006.
Francios Gehin, born and raised in Paris, is not only an incredibly disciplined musician on 7-string bass, but also brings savvy digital studio skills and brilliant engineering to Larry Baeder & The MuseGurus. He provides Gholson and Baeder a steady hand at the helm, both on stage and in the studio. With major credits as varied as opening for the Ramones in Brazil to the recording of three major label releases with French Rock band, Little Bob Story (with a ‘Record of the Week’ award from the British music magazine New Music Express), and a stint with Jimmy Vivino of the Conan O’Brian Show, his musicianship is now in high demand with visiting and local artists in the highly diverse Key West music scene.
Contact: Janet Castiel, Redwood Entertainment, Inc. (212) 543-9998 info@RedwoodEntertainment.com
GI BLYTHE PROVIDES ANOTHER FREE
SONG DOWNLOAD: “LOST IN SPACE”
Following
GI Blythe’s recent announcement to provide periodic free music downloads of
songs from their successful CD release Lost
in Space, and the offering of their first, “Run Rabbit Run,” they are now providing
a second free song written by Geoff Blythe.
The title cut “Lost in Space” is an ethereal and majestic mosaic that
charts a man’s existential journey through the cosmic fabric of life and
creation only to realize that he is “lost.” In the wake of a highly successful national
radio campaign and last year’s triumphant CD release tour of the East Coast,
beginning with a CD release party at Connolly’s Klub 45 in New York City and closing
with a CD release concert at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY.
GI Blythe
will be offering further free song downloads in the months to come, so stay
tuned!
New
York, NY, May 18, 2013—Following GI Blythe’s recent announcement
to provide periodic free music downloads of songs from their successful CD
release Lost in Space, and the
offering of their first, “Run Rabbit Run,” they are now providing a second free
song written by Geoff Blythe. The title
cut “Lost in Space” is an ethereal and majestic mosaic that charts a man’s
existential journey through the cosmic fabric of life and creation only to
realize that he is “lost.” In the wake
of a highly successful national radio campaign and last year’s triumphant CD
release tour of the East Coast, beginning with a CD release party at Connolly’s
Klub 45 in New York City and closing with a CD release concert at the
Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY, GI Blythe will be offering further free song
downloads in the months to come, so stay tuned!
As many fans are already aware, GI Blythe is a group of seasoned musical pros from a
variety of impressive musical backgrounds who’ve come together to fuse a
high-energy hybrid of wit and horn-centric good-time Rock, which is amply
demonstrated on Lost in Space.
Lost in Space is an exhilarating introduction
to a band that has already piqued some discerning ears and raised some diverse
eyebrows. Along with the humorously
macabre “Run
Rabbit Run” and the imagistic “Lost in Space” the CD contains other original tunes written
by Blythe, Archie Brown & Jim Paterson—including the instrumental “Freedom
March” with some swinging, scorching Jazzy moments—and their funky and haunting
“The Narrative of G. Bristol Groot (Vampyre)” (also a video available on
YouTube), which like many cuts on the album just might bring you out of your
chair. So be forewarned: before you put on this music be sure to put on
your dancing shoes!
GI Blythe is
a band of exceptional players from the U.K. and the U.S. that have outrageous
chops and share a pure joy of making music that is both exuberant and street
savvy. Several members of GI Blythe have
worked together in various music settings over the years—including Dexy’s
Midnight Runners and Black 47—and along with Geoffrey Blythe have collectively
played and/or recorded with a number of diverse artists from Elvis Costello,
Paul Simon and Nick Lowe to Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter and The Funk Brothers
(of Motown fame), to name but a few. The
band’s foundation is provided by drummer Crispin ‘the Pump’ Taylor and
bassist Joe ‘Bear Claw’ Burcaw—and these guys cook! They provide a solid pocket that
energetically propels the band and allows lead singer Archie Brown and the
horns of Blythe and ‘Big Jim’ Paterson (trombone & backup vocals), along
with the keys of Pete Levin and guitars of Larry Baeder, to alternately punch
the rhythm section and float above the smooth ride effortlessly. Although the band’s
players are accomplished pros, they retain a raucous, authentic post-punk
attitude resulting in a sound that’s soulful, sometimes Jazzy (with
tasteful flashes of dissonance—and a funky beat!), rockin’ and audacious—all at
the same time!
What/When: “Lost in Space” available NOW for
FREE!
Ric Frank - leader, tenor Sax, vocals, zydeco tie, percussion
Steve Gluzband - trumpet, vocals, percussion
Ralph Hamperian - tuba/sousaphone
Chauncey Yearwood- bass drum, cymbal, drum set
Kevin Raczka-snare drum, cymbal, drum set
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