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Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wake Me Up 9/16/13 Brooklyn Bowl

Elvis Costello - vocals, guitar 

Questlove - drums 
Mark Kelley - bass 
James Poyser - keyboards 
Ray Angry - keyboards 
Frank Knuckles - percussion 
"Captain" Kirk Douglas - guitar, vocals 

Jeff Bradshaw & Brass Heaven: 
Jeff Bradshaw - trombone 
Matt Cappy - trumpet 
Korey Riker - saxophone 
Chris Farr - saxophone 

full show FM broadcast audio stream: http://wfuv.org/audio/archives/fuv-live/elvis-costello-and-roots-live-brooklyn-bowl-2013 
full show FM broadcast audio download: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=465266
full show audience audio download: http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=465393

Proshot shot video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSDEs6_iNqQ -- Wise Up Ghost
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/the-roots-elvis-costello-wise-up-ghost-live-video-brooklyn-bowl.html

Audience video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjKoBMgIhU8 -- Wake Me Up -- 6:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR78utjZjX0 -- Refuse To Be Saved -- 3:42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-OyXg2YhtM -- Stick Out Your Tongue -- 5:54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVMEIrEtMCk -- Watching The Detectives -- 5:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xag5dFD5M9A -- Shabby Doll -- 4:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5PHcCrBspc -- Sugar Won't Work / Tripwire -- 9:28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTo6zYAkj1w -- Spooky Girlfriend -- 5:02
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saOa04GSFQ4 -- Cinco Minutos Con Vos -- 6:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRcozs5nXU -- Ghost Town -- 4:35
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJR7BuAH1g -- (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea -- 3:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewxEUYg0j4 -- Walk Us Uptown -- 3:34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H-lXNqYG94 -- I Want You -- 12:01
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0SMu_IHaEA -- Wise Up Ghost -- 5:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjTeQZuHQw -- Pump It Up -- 5:16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ9s2A9dtIg -- I Found Out -- 4:36

Show reviews: 
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/elvis-costello-and-the-roots-celebrate-crazy-experiment-20130917 
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/18/arts/music/elvis-costello-and-the-roots-at-brooklyn-bowl.html 
http://www.wfuv.org/audio/archives/fuv-live/elvis-costello-and-roots-live-brooklyn-bowl-2013 
http://www.okayplayer.com/news/the-roots-elvis-costello-wise-up-ghost-live-video-brooklyn-bowl.html 
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2013/09/elvis_costello_25.html (*****lots of pictures*****)

3 pro shot videos from performance on Jimmy Fallon:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/elvis-costello-and-the-roots-stroll-uptown-on-fallon-20130918
http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/video/elvis-costello-and-the-roots-wise-up-ghost/n40953/

Elvis Costello & The Roots - Wake Me Up 9/16/13 Brooklyn Bowl

Koln by The Sure Co. from the 5ives EP (Jazz Refreshed).
Richard Spaven - Drums
Grant Windsor - Keys


Koln

Kids

Rolling Blunts

Diamond Thieves - Instrumental

Blast Off

04.HER HANDS Feat. Allysha Joy - SO.Crates

Wish You Were Gone

'The Idea' (Feat. @nubya-garcia, @sheldon-agwu & Dylan Jones)
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The Idea (Feat. Nubya Garcia, Sheldon Agwu & Dylan Jones)

Subdued EP

Where Are Your Branches? (Where Is Your Fruit?)

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Show me how you care, 
Tell me how you were loved before 
Show me how you smile, 
Tell me why your hands are cold 

I’m turning around, 
I’m having visions of you 
But then I understand 
The friend I’m dreaming of is far away 
But I’m here... I’m here 

Show me how you’re proud, 
Tell me how you reach the moon 

My thoughts err away tonight 
My heart fell to love again 

I’m turning around I’m having visions of you ( 
But then I understand 
The friend I’m dreaming of is far away 
And doesn’t feel my love 
But I do... I do

Men I Trust - Show Me How

When The Expansions self released their first single in 2013, the laid-back jazz funk of Lavender, it quickly gained strong support from soul and rare-groove aficionados including Kenny Dope, Dom Servini, Patrick Forge and Andy Smith. A run of shows followed and before long, when someone was asking if there was a soul-jazz band around to play with, “The Expansions” was the answer. 

Although this popularity meant a hiatus in releasing music, the band have been constantly busy, playing around Europe with legendary British-Ghanaian soul singer, Andrew Ashong and the exceptional, upcoming talent Connie Constance. 

There has also been a breakout project from drummer Jonny Drop - the album Sub Plot gained massive support and love from BBC Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne. While keys-man Dave Koor has been busy playing shows with Gilles Peterson favourite Hector Plimmer, Shaun Escoffery, and Ego Ella May, improvising with Yussef Dayes (Yussef Kamaal) and Nubya Garcia, releasing music as Deoke and collaborating with label-mate Scrimshire on their Modified Man exploration. 

But always, The Expansions has remained a central focus and the true home of these four jazz and soul lovers, with occasional trips out to the country to form ideas and practice new music for the eventual album. 

Murmuration, recorded over three days at Big Noise in Southend, is constructed of single takes, with minimal overdubs, as the band attempt to capture the feeling and energy they create live. 

Debut single Breakthrough introduced the insanely catchy but deeply soulful blend of synths and groove, but here on the album that is explored to the fullest with longer breakdowns and more expansive, experimental solos. Pocket 5 displays the, possibly unexpected, influences of broken beat and almost combative rhythm playing – particularly in the complex guitar and keys breakdown where Koor and O’Keefe layer conflicting time signatures and battle to ride it out to the heavy drum return. 

Cannonball brings warm mellowness that delicately evolves through beats, touching on bossas alongside their fundamental hip-hop sensibilities. But even here there is a raucous zenith before the band sublimely recede into the silence of the a-side ending. 

Colossal album highlight Ivory Mountain is truly an epic. Evoking moments of 4Hero, there is a lightness of groove in the first half of this soulful exploration. But at the halfway point, all restraint is let go as a live string section joins the four quarters of the band for three glorious minutes of soulful disco. Evoking sounds of Quincy Jones, George Benson and Johnny Hammond, all the way through to a beautifully cacophonous finale. 

Dragonfly undoubtedly reflects on the work of Herbie Hancock and is the most direct throwback to the band’s earlier work, which is a welcome marker of how far they have come. A quintessential jazz funker. 

The album closes with the thoughtful and introverted shuffle of Miles Away. In the final eight minutes of Murmuration, The Expansions allow space and time to take precedence, with once-more-restrained peaks and developments. It becomes clear though, that the band cannot resist one last explosive finale, as they rise with screeching synths, strings and dubs for a perfect race to the finish line. 

You can hear the influences of Idris Muhammad, Grover Washington, even parallels with South London peers Yussef Kamaal and Ruby Rushton. But The Expansions have tirelessly worked to create a sound of their own and are very proud, along with label Albert’s Favourites, to finally share it.

Murmuration

Miles Away

Yussef Kamaal - String of Light (Live @ Jazz Cafe) ::: Mixing / Mastering (2016)

Khruangbin - Mr White (Thallus Remix)

First single from the upcoming release Seven Wonders. New Movements in Australian Jazz & Soul A 14 track compilation recorded at Plug Seven Studios In Melbourne Collingwood, in partnership with Wondercore Island, due for release Feb 2020.

Seven Wonders

05 WVR BVBY - Custard Shoulder

The Tides

Enter Romance

Producer - Sound Engineer based in London, UK. 
ElDorado Recording Studio
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Yussef Kamaal - String of Light (Live @ Jazz Cafe) ::: Mixing / Mastering (2016)

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