As the globalised economy churns in swells ‘neath our feet, suturing us together and tearing us apart, heads angled hellward, we bellow, Algiers!

Algiers is the danse macabre between here and nowhere, movement and stasis, order under hell, and chaos under heaven. The situation is excellent.

Algiers is a band of musicians born in Atlanta, Georgia, the rotten hub of the Ol’ American South, where W.E.B Dubois once saw a riot goin’ on, and where the hell and highwater swirls ‘round to the knees.

Holed up in our perches in London, New York and a small town in France, plague up to our necks, we conjure the dead sound to life.

The click clack of the keyboard brings us to worship. The shrieks of slaves and rebels pummeling through.

Our tongues, twisted in the service of Paul Robeson, Lee Moses, Selda Bağcan, et al, slur a call in the darkness.

Algiers is the experimental gospel noise soul pulp response, slurping Francophilia - Gainsbourg and Dutronc, Saint Just and Fanon, Badiou and Baurdillard - Black Power - Nina Simone, Public Enemy, James Baldwin, Fred Hampton, DJ Premier, and Fela Kuti – and Southern Gothic - William Faulkner, Nick Cave and Flannery O’Connor - into a stew thicker than bourguignon in the Algierian sun.

Algiers is Franklin James Fisher (b. North Carolina, l. NYC) / vocals, guitar, keys, programming, and percussion; Ryan Mahan (b. Georgia, l. London) / vocals, bass and percussion; and Lee Tesche (b. Georgia, l. London) / guitar, vocals, programming, and percussion.

This is new...trying something different.

Matt Mansfield is a musician, producer, and sound engineer with a focus on Dub Reggae. He maintains a studio in Clarkston, Georgia, on the outskirts of Atlanta, where he uses the techniques of Dub and electronic production to explore global soundscapes. He instigates musical interactions under the name Piper Street Sound. With over twenty years of recording, performing, and touring as bassist and live dub engineer, as well as years working in record label management with the pioneering ZZK Records, Mansfield has dug deeply through the emerging sounds of our planet. In this process of delving he has evolved into a creature of instinctive musical creation.

We Do What We Want

Founded & Curated by Brett Eclectic.

We release a diversity of sound including Electro, Boogie, Modern & Future Funk, Grind Music, Electronica, Hip Hop, Synthwave, Ambient, Alternative R&B, Electro-Soul, Experimental & Instrumental/Beats projects

...no format here...just music with a feel…that real in ur ear Sneer.

Founder of @sneer-records Producer. Musician. Singer. Lyricist. Selector. Funk Renegade. Sound Explorer. Beyonder. B1.

Georgia Soul Council, originally formed in 2010 as the backing band for Otis Redding III, reconvened in 2011 with a shift towards the 70's era breakbeat Soul-Jazz that is their real musical passion. 2012 saw GSC bring their funkified live performances to the people of the southeast, and they have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with Lee Fields & The Expressions, the Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Papa Grows Funk,  Col. Bruce Hampton, and many more. Georgia Soul Council's debut self titled album, recorded summer 2012, is available now at www.georgiasoulcouncil1.bandcamp.com

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