With song, harmony, melody and rhythm being the main focus of Aquilina, it’s very difficult not to focus on anything else. The group started when Joseph Aquilina met double bass player Paul Baker outside the Royal College of music and asked Paul to have a jam. After many phone calls, failed attempts at meeting each other, they finally met, jammed and decided to work on Joseph’s material. Egyptian Violinist Samy Bishai answered an advert in the Loot newspaper and joined the group.  Joseph’s old friend from his anarchic teens, Chilean drummer Lenin Alegria, now plays drums after an invitation from the band to complete the quartet.

Joseph was born in South London hailing from Brixton. With his Maltese genealogy and its Semitic language, his interest in all things Arabic and other cultures was sparked from growing up in this multicultural town. Also listening to such artists like Davey Grayham, Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden, Nick Drake and funk is reflected in Aquilina’s music, through the grooves, harmonies and melodies spanning the world local and afar. Even though the band has adopted Joseph’s surname, it is very much a band. The members are influenced by Jazz, Classical, Latin, Rock, Electronica, Pop, Folk and World music which all filters in to what is produced and performed.

Aquilina’s music has always been tricky to describe or put into a category, but one thing the remains certain, is that the majority of listeners with whatever fad they may be into: they like what they hear. Joseph’s voice producing powerful emotive tones fits perfectly with the skilfully played acoustic instruments, creating sonorous arrangements anchored by Lenin’s drumming. Comparisons have been made with Arcade Fire, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Chris Cornell, Seal, Sting and the Dave Mathews Band with a North African and Eastern European flavour making their sound a little bit more open to “Worldy” influences as some may describe.
Aquilina has had several members join and leave the band including cellist/singer-songwriter Jeni Saint, Percussionist Martin Pyne and Drummer Nikolaj Bjerre (session drummer and formerly from the 90s trip-hop band Lamb). Other musicians that have worked and will feature on future recordings include: Zoe Rahman (2006 Mercury music nominee) on Piano, Oli Savil (Basement Jaxx) Percussion, Idris Rahman (The Soothsayers and producer of Mercury Nominees Basquiat Strings & Mercury Nominee Zoe Rahman) and Calum Cook (BSO, ECO, LPO) on Cello.

Narrow Plains released their debut album with Spectra Music Group in May 2018 in the USA. Narrow Plains have won numerous awards, with their single “I Should’ve Known’ nominated as ‘Song of the Year 2018’ in Nashville Universe Music awards. They were also nominated as Best Country/Folk Act in UMAs and won Hard Rock Rising 2015 at Hard Rock Café, London. In 2015, they recorded a live single “Choices” with legendary recording engineer, John Davenport, (Springsteen, Lennon, Stones), at his studio in North Carolina that helped them to top the Reverbnation Indie charts. Originally a trio of Charlie Ferriday (guitar/vocals), Roger Connick (bass/back-up vocals) and Stuart Connick (drums/back-up vocals), Edd Simpson has joined on guitar and keys.

Fair Folk is a podcast rediscovering and sharing the sacred song and folk traditions of Europe.

‘Back The Way We Came: Vol 1 (2011-2021)’ including the brand new single 'We're On Our Way Now'. Pre-order and listen here: https://NoelGallagher.lnk.to/btwwc

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Creators of blistering, melodic guitar rock that will lodge itself deep in your brain to the point where you’ll be humming these infectious tunes for weeks. A righteous quartet of musical adventurers.

Be it from the early acid house raves in London or the full moon parties in Goa, or carving my own flutes for that ambient track, KAUKUTA fell in love with making music of the melodic, electronic, tribal kind many years ago.
From the drum and bass of URBAN SHAKEDOWN (with DJ Aphrodite), to the trance and psycadelic of UNION JACK (with Platipus' Simon Berry), 
and his solo project of TERRA FERMA, the journey that started 25 years ago continues...
The new TERRA FERMA music releases will be coming out later this year.

**we're actively seeking gigs, representation, labels & opportunities so if you can help, PM us :) **
Northwest UK based band No One Sun, launched their new Album 'Ghosts' on 2nd May 2016. Following up the EP 'Bogota' and their debut album, All We Rely On Is Stolen.

Ghosts - "Follows in the footsteps of the likes of the Killers with high intensity drums and a guitar style reminiscent of the Strokes"

All We Rely On Is Stolen - "11 tracks of lush indie pop rock - soaring anthems, monster guitar hooks & punch the air epics!"
"It's a total pop treasure trove"

Nothing New Under the Sun are an exciting new five piece band that have emerged from the port City of Cork. With a diverse range of influences, they effortlessly combine sweet folk-pop harmonies with hooky guitar riffs, soaring vocals and a driving rhythm section. 
You can pick up our debut E.p !Small Town Rain" here 
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/artist/nothing-new-under-the-sun/id562608221

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