Lou Peachum is a new rock band from Petaluma, California.  The band is influenced by a diverse range of artists, including but not limited to The Band, The Black Keys, Cream, John Scofield, The Meters, Marvin Gaye, and Weezer.



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    "The world music group celebrates the Divine by using an arsenal of musical instruments from various parts of the world, developing exquisite pieces that blend world music with jazz rhythms and stylings."
    -World Music Central

    BOLO is a dynamic ensemble with Surya Prakasha (Lavay Smith) on drumset, vocals and harmonium, Eliyahu Sills (The Qadim Ensemble) on ney & bansuri flutes, oud, and upright bass, and Evan Fraser (Dirtwire) on West African kamale ngoni (harp), kalimba, and percussion.

    With a fresh improvisational approach, the group creates music that will move, uplift and transport. Featuring African sourced grooves with sacred folk songs, African and Indian melodies, BOLO speaks to the heart in a musical language that bridges continents and unites us all.

Instruments:
Bansuri: bamboo flute from India. From Sanskrit words ‘Bans’ = bamboo & ‘sur’ = musical note.
Nai (Ney in Turkish): Middle-Eastern flute made from the reed. Nai is a Farsi word, meaning ‘reed.’ It’s believed to be the oldest melodic instrument on earth.
Kalimba: African thumb piano, found throughout sub-saharan Africa.
Kamale Ngoni: African harp with 10 strings. A cousin of the Kora, from Mali and Burkina Faso.
Bass Kamale Ngoni: lower register African harp, with 10 strings.
Bendir: North African frame drum with gut snares and goat skin.
Drum set: invented by Ludwig & Co. with the introduction of foot pedals, made famous by jazz drummer Warren 'Baby' Dodds.
Harmonium: portable hand-pumped reed organ, brought to India by European missionaries.
Khol: two-sided clay drum from northeastern India, traditionally used in devotional music.  
Oud: Middle-Eastern, pear-shaped, fretless instrument with 11 strings.  It’s name comes from the Arabic word ‘oud’ that means ‘wood.’
Upright Bass: from the European Viol family. The bass became part of the rhythm section in Jazz and other music of the Americas by being played with fingers instead of a bow.
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Engineered & Mixed by John Schimpf
Photography by Ahri Golden
Graphic Design by Mirissa Neff
Mastering by eO
Recorded at 25th Street Recording, Oakland, CA

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We are very grateful to our families, teachers, friends, music lovers, dancers, and benefactors who made this album possible.  We give thanks to the Creator and to the Earth for providing everything we need: water, air, food, and the organic elements from which musical instruments are made. We honor and offer gratitude to the cultural curators of the world who cultivate traditional arts and pass them from generation to generation.  


Management:
American International Artists, Inc.
Cynthia B. Herbst, President
+1 (518) 686-0972
Cynthia@aiArtists.com

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

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