IMUA

Keeping the monsters in check!! xx

Rewind selector for Jewel School's Fat Freddy's Drop On The Couch session from 2005. Recorded with us on the cusp of Based On A True Story setting sail, it's a leisurely korero with Zen & Martin on Freddys origins & inspirations, Ghuznee HQ & bad ass times, matched with a generous slice of Bongmaster & Matterhorn jams to then fresh bites from BOATS album. Chur Jewel School, still broadcasting weekly on Radio Active.
On The Couch: DJ Fitchie, Joe Dukie, Fulla Flash, Suga 2 Tone aka Tony Chang, Dobie Blaze aka Kuki, Hopepa & Jetlag Johnson.

ON THE COUCH (2005)

To dance to

fat freddy's drop

Nz Dub

sweet tunes

Rumors Dem A Spread - Rootikal Riddim

Detroit producer and DJ, Theo Parrish, translates Mother Mother with a vocal and instrumental re-wiring of the original soulful, techno-tinged workout off the album Blackbird.

Mother Mother (Theo Parrish Translation)

Mother Mother

Fat Freddy's Drop - Mother Mother Theo Parrish Translation

Instrumental taken from Andy's debut LOWB album 'Leap And The Net Will Appear'.
Written, Produced & Mixed by Andy Barlow

LOWB - The Shaman's Wife

'Morris does not interpret soul. She is soul, with all its passion and pain, joy and sorrow, hard times and highs.'
THE GAZETTE, MONTREAL

‘There's no hiding place at a Sarah Jane Morris gig – either from her opulent, multi-octave voice and raw emotional clout that recalls Nina Simone and Janis Joplin, or from her lyrics that explore love and pain, sex crimes, war crimes, Catholicism and contraception – and a whole uncompromising bunch more.’
THE GUARDIAN

Sarah-Jane Morris is the British soul, jazz and r&b singer who topped the UK pop charts for a month in 1986 (with The Communards’ disco version of ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’) and then eloquently and joyously sidestepped the mainstream ever after. Morris’s magnificent soul voice and emotional power would have brought multiple Grammy awards and celebrity status to most singers with her charisma and drive. But for over 25 years of a unique career, Morris has steered by her own star, not the music industry’s, and that independence has brought her a devoted audience, inspired by her belief in the power of song to change hearts and minds.

That belief inspired Bloody Rain, the ambitious new collection of love-songs, tributes, warnings and protests that she regards as the best album of her life, which will be released on Monday 15th September 2014.  

Devoted to the people of Africa, and the music of that continent that has inspired so many artists for so long, Bloody Rain brings together a stunningly diverse group of performers. Among a raft of guests are the Zimbabwe-born singer Eska, Senegal’s Seckou Keita on kora, UK-Caribbean saxophonist Courtney Pine, the Soweto Gospel Choir, American/Israeli jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen, former James Brown arranger Pee Wee Ellis - and of course the soulmates from Morris’s touring band, including Sting sideman Dominic Miller, and guitarist Tony Remy, co-writer of many of the new songs. 

Typically, Sarah-Jane Morris doesn’t flinch from some raw subjects in telling this story, and while she hopes that many of these haunting songs ‘will lift your spirits’, she accepts that ‘some will make you weep.’ Blossoming as a lyricist in recent years, the singer and her co-writers have taken on subjects from tyrannical political power (‘Bloody Rain’), to honour killings (‘No Beyonce’), child-soldiers (‘No Comfort For Them’), and homophobia (‘David Kato’). 

But these forthright songs, ignited by irresistable grooves, superb playing, and Morris’s startling shifts from the soulfully rhetorical to the intimate, are about hope, not resignation. Bloody Rain is also, crucially, about love - in which respect, though the examples are Sarah-Jane Morris’s own, the music speaks to everyone. Her husband Mark and her 80 year-old mother Joy are the inspirations for the glowing Afrobeat opener ‘Feel The Love’, ‘For A Friend’ is a tender yet upbeat tribute to special companions, ‘Wild Flowers’ a grateful celebration of her eccentric, accidentally-liberating upbringing, and the closing ‘On My Way To You’ is as delicate and tender as anything this expressive singer has recorded in her long career.

The album was created through PledgeMusic, a platform where artists and fans come together.  Pledges made have raised the money to pay for the very special guests and collaborators on this album, making the kind of risky and imaginative music that Sarah-Jane Morris’s audiences love.   Those pledgers will be treated to a one-off performance of the album on Saturday 14th June at The Hippodrome, London.

Bloody Rain is released on Monday 15th September 2014 and Sarah-Jane Morris will launch the album with a gig at the Union Chapel on Thursday 18th September 2014.


FOR PRESS INFORMATION CONTACT SALLY REEVES ON 01223 864710 or 07790 518756  sallyreeves@btinternet.com 


06 No Comfort For Them Sarah - Jane - Morris.mp3

Irie Souls - Wanting More

Kora - War

Free download of Midnight Marauders from Live In Munich EP, recorded on tour 2013 and released with This Room and Shiverman as an exclusive on Spotify.

14 October 2014

MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS - LIVE IN MUNICH

MC Slave does it again on the Logg Cabin Show, this time dropping Dark Days from the iTunes Session.
The full 6 track exclusive iTunes Session out now eh
http://smarturl.it/FFDiTunesSession
Catch the making of Dark Days video interview with Dukie & co on FFD TV http://bit.ly/1IikxVO

DARK DAYS ON LOGG CABIN RADIO

NEW ALBUM ‘NANNA’ AVAILABLE NOW: www.smarturl.it/xrunNANNA

Nanna

KING OF BOHEMIA - AUSTRALAIN SINGLE RELEASE TOUR

Fri 10 Apr / Brighton Up Bar, Sydney NSW (Single Launch)
Sat 11 Apr / The Brewery, Wollongong NSW
Fri 17 Apr / Sooki, Belgrave VIC
Sat 18 Apr / The Espy, St Kilda VIC
Sun 19 Apr / B.EAST, Melbourne VIC
Wed 22 Apr / The Lass O'Gowrie, Newcastle NSW
Thu 23 Apr / No. 5 Church, Bellingen NSW
Fri 24 Apr / The Pier, Port Macquarie NSW
Sat 25 Apr / Miami Marketta, Miami QLD
Sun 26 Apr / The Milk Factory, Brisbane QLD

King Of Bohemia

Wandering Eye 12"

Wandering Eye

11 (6) Audio Track (Wandering Eye)

Midnight Marauders

FFD On The Couch ft Midnight Marauders (12")

FFD On The Couch ft Roady (Live at Sandwiches)

FFD On The Couch ft Flashback, Ernie (instrumental > album bites)

FFD On The Couch ft Cays Crays (instrumental > album version)

FFD On The Couch ft No Parking (Matterhorn), Bongmaster jams ESC, Matterhorn), HOPE (original)

FFD On The Couch ft Ray Ray (instrumental > album version)

FFD On The Couch ft Wandering Eye (instrumental > album bites)

Rusted Root - Send Me on My Way

Irie Insulation-Inna Vision

'Midnight Marauders' remix by DJ Vadim + The Electric vocalists, soulstress Sabira Jade and lyrical marvel MC Pugs Atomz. Taken from Fat Electric Drop, DJ Vadim VS Fat Freddy's Drop EP, available now on 12" vinyl at www.fatfreddysdrop.com - strictly limited edition vinyl release.

MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS, FAT ELECTRIC DROP

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Maynard James Keenan on Maturity

Blackbird, the opening track from the third studio album by soul pirates Fat Freddy's Drop.

Blackbird

Clean The House single from Blackbird, the third studio album from heavyweight soul providers Fat Freddy’s Drop. Check the grindhouse marionette music video at : http://youtu.be/T2INd9Cjf1U

Clean The House

Clean the House

Irie Souls Mana Guy-new Day

Fat Freddy's Drop’s pirate soul train, resolutely independent, worldwide.

Formed in 1999 in Wellington, New Zealand our sound draws inspiration from almost every part of the black music lexicon. Soul drenched vocals and jazz harmonies collide with tape delays and echo chambers, underpinned by a rhythm section as comfortable laying down a throbbing, techy soundscape as they are a swampy blues stomp.
