An audio-scrub preview of EARDRUM's new album "Colonised" to be released MAY 2015 on DISTRICT SIX RECORDS.

THIS IS THE 4TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM EARDRUM, THE UK BASED COLLECTIVE OF PROLIFIC AND INFLUENTIAL WORLD/JAZZ/EXPERIMENTAL MUSICIANS.

(MEMBERS HAVE/ARE ALSO PLAYING WITH: MULATU ASTATKE, TONY ALLEN, ASWAD,SKA CUBANO, JAZZ WARRIORS,JAZZ JAMAICA,HUGH MASEKELA, BLACK TOP, SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER, YAABA FUNK, VENUS BUSHFIRES, ETC)

MOSTLY RECORDED AS A LIVE BAND ONE-TAKE SESSION, REMINISCENT OF THEIR FIERY LIVE SHOWS, THIS ALBUM HAS ALSO BEEN RIGOUROUSLY MIXED AND DUBBED OUT IN THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE FRONT OF HOUSE ENGINEER; IMPULSIVELY REACTING WITH THE BAND ONSTAGE.

THE MUSIC HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF AN EDGY AND OFTEN DISTURBING MEETING OF MANY WORLDS; WEST AFRICAN, NORTH INDIAN, ELECTRONICA, FREE JAZZ - AND YET STILL ITRETAINS THE MONSTER ORGANIC DANCE GROOVES FOR WHICH THE BAND IS ALREADY KNOWN AND LOVED.

FEATURING VOCALS FROM NIGERIA, ERITREA AND EGYPT, THE ALBUM FLICKS FROM MOSTLY INSTRUMENTALS TO A FEW VOCAL-LED TRACKS, WITHOUT LOSING ANY FOCUS, FEATURING TIGHT HORN ARRANGEMENTS AND HEAVY DRUM BREAKS, THAT SEAMLESSLY SPLAY OUT INTO DEEP INTERSTELLA IMPROVISATION.
 
AS WITH PREVIOUS EARDRUM MATERIAL, “COLONISED”  HYPNOTISES, EVOKES AND STIRS UP IN THE MIND OF THE  LISTENER AND THE DANCER ALIKE 


PERSONNEL

RICHARD OLATUNDE BAKER (UK/Nigeria) talking drum/percussion/fx
LOU CICCOTELLI (USA) - drumkit
HARVIR SAHOTA SINGH (India) - tabla/percussion
RASAQ AYANDELE (Nigeria)  - omele bata  
PAT THOMAS (UK/Caribbean)  - keyboard/electronics
JASON YARDE (Caribbean)  - tenor sax
NICK WALTERS (UK) - trumpet
TREVOR EDWARDS (Caribbean)  - trombone
AGE NORTHOVER (UK)  - alto sax
AYO ODIA (Nigeria) - alto sax
TREVOR ANTONIO (Gambia/Caribbean)  - udu on “Yellow Skies”

FEATURED VOCALS
HELEN ISIBOR (Nigeria)  - on “Magic Train”
SABA TEWELDE (Eritrea) - on “Bikoboro”
EMPRESS *1 (Egypt)  - on “Iya el Donia”

CONTACT:
richard@richardolatundebaker.com





EARDRUM "COLONISED" WHOLE ALBUM AUDIO-SCRUB

ITT REMIX I did with my buddy, under the name of Y.A.P. - Young African Pioneers!

Richardolatunde

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