Record collector / DJ / Broadcaster / Producer / Brownswood Recordings boss / occasional remixer

Bookings: bookings@feelgoodexperiment.com
Website: www.feelgoodexperiment.com

“You guys were awesome!” Robert Glasper

“Bright, sunshiny RnB Soul, skilfully sprinkled with complex Jazz melodies and rhythms, without making the brain hurt” Chai Wallahs

Feelgood Experiment features the best of Bristol's blossoming jazz scene creating a truly progressive sound with compelling rhythm and mellifluous harmony doused with liberating improvisation and rich lyrical content.

With support from BBC 6Music & Clash Magazine the band released their debut EP in November 2017. Winners of 2016’s Love Supreme Discovery Competition, they have already shared stages with Nubya Garcia, Ezra Collective, Alfa Mist among others. 

With a follow up release planned in the next year the band are set to further solidify their standing in the UK jazz scene.

Debut EP released Nov '17
Bandcamp - feelgoodexperiment.bandcamp.com/releases

Trumpet - Alfie Grieve @grievious-trumpet
Vocals - Holly Wellington @holysseusfly
Guitar - Crim
Keys - Henry Binning
Bass - Ollie Horne @ollie-horne
Drums - James Vine @jamesovine

OFFICIAL BIO
Regarded upon his 2006 arrival as a promising beatmaker looming in the shadows of J Dilla, Madlib, waterfalls and Dabrye, Steven Ellison -- known as Flying Lotus -- nullified all comparisons only two years later with Los Angeles. On that album, his first of five for the Warp label, Ellison distilled a uniquely crisp, spasmodic, and heady sound with elements of hip-hop, avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep. While the abovementioned producers fueled Ellison, he had also been excited as a youngster by the '90s West Coast rap classics that combined programming and live instrumentation. His sound continued to develop as he put his own twist on the approach, recording with a crop of jazz musicians including the indispensable likes of bassist Thundercat and strings master Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. This process began with the turbulent 2010 set Cosmogramma and peaked in terms of acclaim in 2014 with You're Dead!, which crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and spawned the Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Never Catch Me," a Grammy nominee for Best Dance Recording. Ellison devoted a few years to various forms of film work and the operation of his revered Brainfeeder label, and returned in 2019 with Flamagra, his second consecutive album to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart.

James Yancey (1974-2006)
http://www.j-dilla.com/biography/

Dance, No One's Watching - the new album from Mercury Prize winners Ezra Collective, is an ode to the sacred, yet joyous act of dancing. The album musically guides you through a night out in the city, from the opening of possibilities as a new evening spans out ahead, to dawn’s final hours as the night comes to a close. 

Written during a blistering 2023 which saw Ezra Collective tour the world, and become the first jazz act to win the Mercury Prize, Dance, No One's Watching is a documentation of the many dance floors they encountered. From London to Chicago, Lagos to Sydney, dance and rhythm connect us. These songs are a testament to that spirit.

Ezra Collective: Femi Koleoso - Drums, TJ Koleoso - Bass, Joe Armon-Jones - Keys, James Mollison - Saxophone, Ife Ogunjobi - Trumpet

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