Recorded at The Hamilton in Washington, DC, on August 23rd, 2013

Cluck Old Hen

Valley of the Jig - The String Cheese Incident

Here are the last two tracks from the first set, of High Ceiling's performance Friday January 30, 2015 at The Olympia Ballroom in Olympia, WA.
Hang Tan is a cover of a Toubab Krewe song, and The Golden Rule is an original song.  

Hang Tan (live) High Ceiling 2015 - 01 - 30

Purchase Soul here https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/soul-how-i-keep-movin-on/id818862961

Soul (How I Keep Movin' On)

Speak in Rhythms

Roots

Recorded live in concert 2018. 
Mixing, Mastering and cover art by Jesse Miller

Maria Tambien

Burning Down the Sun

Sounds Like Home (ft. Raymond Salazar)

Recorded at Mason Jar Music in Brooklyn, Good Future features nine original and hard-hitting tracks, with guest vocal appearances by Chico Mann and Gabriel Garzon-Montano. Good Future is a powerful statement by a powerful band—it is a refreshing and energetic mixture of afrobeat, funk, soul and rock, all fused together to form the irresistible EMEFE sound. The music sounds like a band that is excited and ready to make listeners forget their worries and dance. After listening to all 9 tracks, through every horn solo, every group chant and every drum breakdown, you can't deny that EMEFE exists to bring a Good Future to everybody within earshot. 

Download of the full album comes with the digital version of the CD booklet!
credits
released 06 July 2012 
Produced by Miles Arntzen and Dan Knobler 
www.emefemusic.com 

Miles Arntzen: drums, percussion 
Jas Walton: tenor saxophone 
Christian Anderson: baritone saxophone 
Ray Mason: trombone 
Michael Fatum: trumpet 
Jake Pinto: Hammond organ, Farfisa, Wurlitzer 
Deen Anbar: guitar 
Davy Levitan: guitar 
Doug Berns: bass 
Javier Ramos: congas, percussion 

Lead trumpet on tracks 1 and 2, additional tpt on tracks 4, 9: Billy Aukstik 
Vocals on track 3: Chico Mann, Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Luna 
Garzón-Montano, EMEFE 
Vocals on track 4: Phoebe Ryan, Jon Seale, EMEFE 
Vocals on track 5: Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Le'Asha Julius, Luna 
Garzon-Montano, George Ross, EMEFE 
Jawbone/ancient Pakistani bell on track 5: Dan Knobler 
Pure Evil on track 5: CZ1000 
Additional keys (Casiotone, Hammond organ), sogo drum, shekere, 
guitars on track 6 part 1: Miles Arntzen 
Vocals on track 8: Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Le'Asha Julius, Luna Garzón-Montano, George Ross, EMEFE 

Tracks 2, 5, 7, 9 written by Miles Arntzen (smilesahead music, ASCAP) 
Tracks 1, 4, 6 written by Miles Arntzen & Jas Walton (Boogie Mo Music, ASCAP) 
Track 3 written by Miles Arntzen, Jas Walton & Marcos Garcia (Emma Lulu Music, BMI) 
Track 8 written by Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Miles Arntzen & Jas Walton 
Track 4 contains words from an Ewe traditional song entitled "Ewo na do do" 

All songs performed by EMEFE 
Produced by Miles Arntzen & Dan Knobler 
Recorded and mixed by Dan Knobler at Mason Jar Music in Brooklyn, NY (masonjarmusic.com) 
Assistant engineer: Phoebe Holiday Ryan 
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studios, NYC 
Original album artwork: Nick Kokkinis 
All songs copyright 2012

do your dance

A collaborative release between producers Eliot Lipp and Blockhead.

Releases on 7" vinyl June 21st, 2019 on YHS Records
Artwork by Maddie Chaffer

Lipphead

Slippery Fingers

7" Vinyl

Lipphead - Slippery Fingers

08 Ripple

Carmanah's cover of Sonny Bono's classic 'Bang Bang'
From their latest album 'Iris' - available now: https://fanlink.to/Carmanah_iris

Bang Bang

Carmanah is now MIINA - follow at www.miina.band

Like the ancient forests from which their name derives, Carmanah is just as comfortable in muddy, bluesy funk as they are among light, soaring harmonies. The band has crafted a niche of its own somewhere between roots, rock and soul — a vintage blend of the intuitive and technical tied seamlessly together by Laura Mina Mitic’s dazzlingly versatile voice. 

In recognition of the band’s passion for their home and the ways it bleeds into their music, producer Gus Van Go (Metric, The Arkells, Sam Roberts) coined the term “West Coast Soul” to describe Carmanah’s unique sound.

Their second album, Iris, was recorded in Brooklyn as a moody counterpoint to and natural evolution from the band’s debut, Speak in Rhythms. That album, with two #1 CBC Music tracks, earned Carmanah a nomination for Roots Duo/Group of The Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in 2018. Now, with Iris, the band has built upon the first album’s strongest elements: its driving melodies, its contorting, energetic rhythms, its bountiful instrumentation, its lyrics that take you by the hand and lead you far from where you began. 

The band — including guitarist and vocalist Pat Ferguson, bassist Jamil Demers, drummer Graham Keehn and keyboardist/backup vocalist Lo Waight — tours in a gutted and retrofitted vegetable-oil driven tour bus, an ambitious project that Ferguson has taken on himself in his backyard. The low-carbon approach is part of a broader ethos the band shares. 

“I get really excited when I think about music as a way to spark action,” Mitic explains. 

"The thrill of making a connection with an audience — any audience — is what keeps me going," says Ferguson. It's already brought him and the band a long way, and today, Carmanah's irresistible chemistry crackles each time the band takes the stage, electrifying one another as much as the audience itself.

Bang Bang

Carmanah

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