Purchase 'I'll Be Around'
- https://ellisswan.bandcamp.com

"Ellis Swan's other worldly reworked folk tales and murder ballads are unsettling, but incredibly seductive."
- BBC Global Beats
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03ktr9j
3/5/16

"...Swan’s LP is a decaying southern gothic world plucked straight from the mind of a displaced soul, a self-reflective odyssey that transports us into a long forgotten era. And it’s unlike anything else you’ll experience in music this year. "
- No Fear Of Pop
www.nofearofpop.net/blog/ellis-swan-ill-be-around
9/24/14

"...exercises of arcane obscurity, occasionally flecked with poetic brilliance; Swan’s I’ll Be Around is a cohesive piece of work, one large tale composed of disparate strands."
- http://bucketfullofnails.com/2015/02/backtracks-ellis-swan-ill-be-around/
2/13/15

<i>"Swan’s songs have patient movement: bass lines that crawl around in circles and fractured washes of texture. His weary, almost exhausted-sounding voice scrapes out a listener’s soul."</i>&#13;
- <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/C-Notes/January-2013/Lets-Talk-About-Ellis-Swan-Chicagos-Most-Elusive-Musician/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">chicagomag.com</a>&#13;
1/15/13&#13;

<i>"...a Canadian artist living in Chicago, and gained some attention last year with his warped, nightmarish ballad Frankie and Charlie. In the bleary-eyed track ‘Evan Williams’, the twisted folk artist takes a more naturalistic route, but keeps that looming, leering edge to his music that makes it so striking."</i>&#13;
- <a href="http://www.dummymag.com/new-music/2012/01/29/ellis-swan-evan-williams/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dummymag.com</a>&#13;
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if interested, see <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dead-bandit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Bandit</a>.

Crop Circles, Dean Brody says, is an album he hopes will take listeners away from the cares of daily life for a while. “When we listen to music, we don’t necessarily want to think about what’s going on in the here and now, we want to go on a journey, and I hope that’s what happens for my fans with this record.”

Job done – On songs like ‘The Old Sandbar’ and ‘Mountain Man,’ the Jaffray, BC born, Nova Scotia-based singer/songwriter celebrates his love of the East Coast and his childhood home at the foot of the Rockies and, with his Civil War era love story, ‘Kansas Cried,’ transports listeners through time and space without missing a beat.

Crop Circles covers a lot of miles and nowhere more so than on Brody’s lead single, ‘Bounty,’ a fiery, turn of the century, murder ballad that finds Brody’s characters running from the law on a late night train to Mexico and features a standout performance by fellow Canadian country singer, Lindi Ortega. In it’s first week of release, ‘Bounty’ held the #1 Most Added song overall and #1 Most Added spot at Country radio for two consecutive weeks and displays Brody’s growth as a writer, lyricist and storyteller in equal measure with a story that has both substantial emotional weight and a certain amount of levity. ‘Bounty’ recently reached #1 on the Canadian Country singles chart!

Regardless of the topic or whether a song is purely observational or drawn from his personal experience, Brody’s music has a cinematic quality that makes it easy for listeners to put themselves into his songs and to feel as if they’re traveling along with his characters. “I see the world in pictures and I love stories and creating worlds, either using my own background, or by putting myself in other people’s shoes, because I’m fascinated by other people’s perspectives on life.”

Although Crop Circles finds Brody adopting a darker, rock-fuelled tone, it also showcases his ample sense of humour and his unique ability to weave a fine yarn, regardless of where or when a song takes place. Nowhere is that more evident than on the album’s title track, which offers up a plausible and hilarious solution to the longstanding mystery of how crop circles are actually created and the fact that they might have more to do with country boys taking their dates on a joy ride through a farmer’s fields than with aliens visiting Earth. “I am trying to have more fun on this record,” Brody says, “and ‘Crop Circles’ is a perfect example. It’s a crazy song that just got crazier when we went into the studio, and when we do it live it goes up a notch again.”

“I love shaking things up musically and lyrically,” he continues. “I wasn’t just influenced by George Jones and Merle Haggard, but by bands like AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Kentucky Headhunters and all kinds of artists, so those influences play a role in what I do and I’m lucky to have fans who’ll let me explore them.”

Truth to tell, Brody shakes it up right from the album’s opener, ‘Four Wheel Drive,’ a song that sets the record straight for anyone who might be tempted to turn their nose up at someone because of what they look like or where they call home. “What’s most important is being good to other people and ‘Four Wheel Drive’ is about the idea that you don’t have to rub elbows with high society to be popular with the ladies. You just have to romantic and be a good guy.”

That belief is heavily informed by Brody’s life experience and specifically his childhood growing up in Jaffray, BC, where he worked in the local sawmill prior to and during his pursuit of a career as a singer/songwriter. But it’s also a product of the fact that, in Brody’s experience, in order to find your true place in the world, often, you may need to cover a fair number of miles yourself.

That was certainly the case when Brody was chasing his own musical dreams. Shortly after moving to Nashville in 2004, Brody found himself unable to work in the US legally and seriously considered giving up on music entirely. Owing to the intervention of producer, Matt Rovey, (with whom Brody has worked with on all of his albums to date), Brody got the chance to record his self-titled debut. The album’s lead single ‘Brothers’ was a hit in the US and Canada and garnered Brody multiple CCMA Award nominations as well as the 2009 CCMA Award for Single of the Year.

Later that year Brody relocated to Nova Scotia’s south shore and signed a deal with Canada’s Open Road Recordings, on which he released his sophomore record, Trail In Life (2010), and his hugely successful 2012 follow up, Dirt, both of which won the CCMA Award for Album of the Year in 2011 and 2012, respectively. Additionally, Dirt’s lead single, ‘Canadian Girls,’ became the first track by a Canadian artist to hit #1 on the Canadian Country Chart since 2008. Dirt also yielded two #1 videos on CMT, two certified Gold singles (for ‘Canadian Girls’ and ‘It’s Friday’ – featuring Great Big Sea), and earned Brody the title of most played Canadian Artist on country radio in 2011 and 2012. Both records were also nominated for JUNO Awards in the category of Country Album of the Year. In all, Brody has been nominated for twenty-six CCMA Awards and recently took home the 2013 CCMA Award for Male Artist of the Year for the second consecutive year.

While Brody, like any songwriter, spends a great deal of time getting his songs just so, on record they sound so honest and immediate, it seems like he’s singing them for the first time. It’s a unique talent and one that’s been a hallmark of his songwriting from day one. But regardless of how far Brody takes listeners on Crop Circles, he takes care to bring them back home again on tracks like ‘Back To The Front Porch’ and ‘Little Things About Us,’ songs that find Brody giving thanks for the joys of home and family and reminding listeners where his own heart lives. “It’s the little things that are special when you’re in love. The things that make you feel nostalgic are usually small and, as time goes on in a relationship, they’re what you appreciate and remember.” Also, he adds: “It’s the little things you often draw on for support when you have to work out larger issues in love and life.”

On Crop Circles, whether a song is specifically about Dean Brody’s own life or not, he displays a singular talent for crafting stories so well lived in they sound like he’s experienced every second of every line, which makes it that that much easier for his audience to see themselves and their own lives and loves reflected in his music.

Resident dj at Subsound in Liverpool, i do a 2 hour show on www.nsbradio.co.uk every week 3-5pm GMT where i play, Funk, Ghetto Funk, Hip-Hop, Glitch Hop, Reggae, Latin, Breaks, Baltimore, Bass, Dubstep, Drum & Bass and brass band covers of Marvin Gaye

Follow me on Twitter @Jamessims91

To listen back to more of my shows from NSB Radio go to http://www.mixcloud.com/jamessims545849/ and  http://www.mixcloud.com/JamesSims/

We as One Shot Brass Band offer the epitome of traditional New Orleanian Brass Band culture. Whether it be a cocktail hour or a black and white affair, we'll become the life of the party. 'One Shot Brass Band, we'll knock right through, just for you!
Book the band call: 
(504)-421-3221 or (504)-432-3075

Social Media: 
FB: One Shot Brass Band
IG: OneShotBrassBand

Email:
OneShotBrassBand1@Gmail.com

Artist inquiries: grislytech@gmail.com

Previous Shows:
26/12/2025 - Another Excuse, Sandinos - Derry, Ireland
28/11/2025 - Assembly, Meraki - Liverpool, UK
25/10/2025 - Tropic Of Keys, Dock B - Paris, France
08/08/2025 - Sunday Grooves, Sandinos Club - Derry, Ireland
01/06/2025 - Sunday Grooves, Sandinos Club - Derry, Ireland
16/05/2025 - PsyCare Fundraiser, Hen's Teeth - Dublin, Ireland
18/04/2025 - Celtronic Festival - Derry, Ireland
27/03/2025 - Arts Bar Baltic - Liverpool, UK
29/11 & 30/11 & 01/12/24 - Other Voices Festival, McCarthy's & An Droichead Beag & The Bridge House, Dingle, Ireland 
27/07/2024 - Secret Warehouse Location, Neighbourhood, Belfast, UK
29/06/2024 - Live set with flower bed, Jacaranda, Liverpool, UK
08/06/2024 - 2hr Vinyl Set at Inverted Audio Record Store, London, UK
01/06/2024 - Collaboration with Elaine Howley (live), Open Ear Festival - Sherkin Island, Ireland
31/03/2024 - Celtronic, Derry, Ireland
25/11/2023 - Live set with Flower Bed, Tories Can't Dance - Liverpool, UK
01/10/2023 - DJ set at Oscilations & Modulations Festival -- Derry, Ireland
30/09/2023 - Live Set at Oscilations & Modulations Festival - Derry, Ireland
24/08/2023 - Live set at MUTEK Festival - Montreal, Canada
19/08/2023 - Live set at Signal Records - Chicago, USA
18/08/2023 - DJ set at Life On Marz Community Club - Chicago, USA
19/05/2023 - Overload Label Launch Night, Melodic Bar & Cafe - Liverpool. UK
09/04/2023 - Celtronic Festival, with Or:la and Move D - Derry, Ireland
02/12/2022 - Overload x Rudimentary Records at Green Room, 24 Kitchen Street - Liverpool. UK
19/11/2022 - 3hr Vinyl Set at Sound Advice - Belfast, UK
18/11/2022 - DJ set a Southside Social - Belfast, UK
22/09/2022 - Magic City, Brooklyn - New York, USA
29/07/2022 - Neightbourhood at Ulster Sport Club - Belfast, UK
29/04/2022 - Overload at District - Liverpool, UK
19/02/2022 - Overload at Meraki - Liverpool, UK
29/06/2020 - Celtronic - Together Apart - Live Stream
27/06/2019 - Celtronic - Derry, Ireland 
21/04/2019 - Club 21 - Florence, Italy
04/06/2018 - Open Ear Festival - Sherkin Island, Ireland 
23/02/2018 - Birmingham - Suki10c, UK
08/12/2017 - London - Mick's Garage, UK
23/10/2017 - Barbican London - The Matthew Herbert Brexit Big Band, UK
13/09/2017 - ://about Blank - Berlin, DE
30/06/2017 - Celtronic Festival - IRE
04/06/2017 - Open Ear Festival - IRE
02/06/2017 - AVA Festival - UK
08/04/2017 - Bermondsey Social - London - UK
08/10/2016 - Kablys - Lithuania - UK
15/04/2016 - Renate - Berlin - GER
21/12/2015 - Boiler Room - Generator - Dublin - IRE
31/10/2015 - District 8 - Dublin - IRE
30/08/2015 - Soup Kitchen - Manchester - UK
02/08/2015 - The Grand Social - Dublin - UK
28/02/2015 - Queens Student Union - Belfast - UK
31/10/2014 - Salle Rogier - Brussels - Belgium - Belgium
18/04/2014 - The Twisted Pepper - Dublin - IRE
16/04/2014 - Concrete Space - London UK
04/08/2013 - La Casa Encendida - Madrid - Spain
27/04/2013 - Factory - Electric Garden & Theatre - Galway - IRE
28/03/2013 - Boiler Room - London - UK
27/03/2013 - The Old Blue Last - London - UK

Original BIO:
This project of mine, is an attempt to get to a time in electronic music, where everything sounds warmer, like with the more techno-ey tunes by throbbing gristle maybe abit like what geogaddi by boards of canada got across,but with a whole other meaning with a more dancable edge of new order. This needed to be done and needs to be done more. let's call it Tape Throb for now.

Booka Brass Band are a group of eight musicians that span the length and breadth of Ireland stretching from Belfast all the way to Cork.

Formed in November 2012, since then they have quickly gone from strength to strength on the live music scene in Ireland. With regular shows in venues all over Dublin including The Sugar Club, Whelan’s and Twisted Pepper, alongside stomping sets to festival crowds at Electric Picnic, Sea Sessions and Longitude, their unique offering and incredible live energy has brought them an unusual level of success in their first year together. 

Booka Brass Band have developed their sound and set up over the last twelve months through a succession of great opportunities, all well deserved and well executed. They have also grown in size, now containing seven members consisting of two trumpets, two trombones, saxophone, sousaphone and drums. With six band members still full-time students, they also stretch the length and breadth of the country coming from Cork all the way to Belfast, studying everything from medicine to law. Classically trained, the band also brings a great understanding of classical harmony which can be heard behind the beats of their original tunes.

In the past few months they have opened shows for New Orleans own Hot 8 Brass Band and the critically acclaimed Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. They've also collaborated with some of Ireland's biggest acts including Jerry Fish and Lisa Hannigan on the back of their eleventh hour set at Turning Pirate's New Year’s Eve Mixtape at Vicar Street.

‘If you can only take in one new act this festival season, make it Booka Brass Band’ – The Irish Independent

"Massive Attack may have been the big draw of Sunday night and they didn't disappoint ….. however little did anyone know but the performance of the whole weekend was taking place on the festival's smallest stage, the Speakeasy Dirty Old Town. Booka Brass Band, Ireland's only New Orleans style eight-piece brass band are undoubtedly a “have to see it to believe it” type of act. A range of high energy self-penned tunes combined with quite incredible covers of Jason Derulo's Talk Dirty and Beyonce's Crazy In Love have those in attendance screaming for more as they leave the stage. Alas, stage hands said there was to be no more and so after much protesting, Booka Brass took the crowd out into the fields and continued playing into the night. It was a moment which summed up Longitude in one foul swoop."
 – In Dublin Magazine

Since their first sold out show in the Button Factory where they collaborated with Jerry Fish and Lisa Hannigan, the band have been all over Ireland and beyond, with shows at Glastonbury Festival, main stage Body and Soul, headlining Knockanstockan and Barn Dance Festival, opening for Imelda May and being invited to play for The President in Áras an Uachtaráin.

BOOKINGS: alex@solarisbookings.com
Upcoming & past dates 2025:
15/2 - SÜDA - Stockholm [SWE]
21/2 - Mono - Stockholm [SWE]
31/5 - Euphoric Groove - Colombo [LK]
1/6 - Euphoric Groove Day2 - Colombo [LK]
18/7 - V/A at Slakthusterassen - Stockholm [SWE]
16/8 - Oscura - Manchester [UK]
27/9 - Mohriska - Falun [SWE]
11/10 - Ozone Projects - Riga [LV]
23/10 - Kadinsky (ADE) - Amsterdam [NL]
25/10 - Solis Nights (ADE) - Amsterdam [NL]  

Upcoming & past dates 2026:
31/1 - Surfface Sessions w/ Alex O'Rion - Stockholm [SWE]

BIO:
EMPHI is a Stockholm-based producer and DJ known for his immersive take on Progressive House. His music blends deep, groovy rhythms with vibrant percussion and sweeping, anthemic melodies, creating a sound that is both emotionally resonant and dancefloor-ready.

With a growing international presence, EMPHI has performed in cities such as Amsterdam, Colombo and Manchester, captivating audiences with his dynamic sets and finely tuned sense of flow. 
His DJ performances are rooted in emotional connection, gradually building momentum and atmosphere in a way that keeps crowds engaged from start to finish.

EMPHI’s studio work has seen releases on some of the genre’s most respected labels, including Meanwhile, Balance, Solis, and Mango Alley. His tracks have been consistently supported by Progressive House heavyweights like Hernán Cattáneo, Alex O'Rion, and Ezequiel Arias, further cementing his place in the global scene.

Driven by a deep love for the genre, EMPHI is steadily making his mark on the global electronic scene. Whether in the studio or behind the decks, his focus remains the same: to create meaningful musical experiences that move both heart and body. With each new release and international gig, EMPHI deepens his signature sound, where atmosphere meets rhythm, and Progressive House finds fresh expression.

It’s fair to assume a band named Big Murder is an angry gangsta death-metal rap group, with potential legal issues. Though that last part may be partly true, the rest is much more complex. Big Murder is known for their hard-driving energy rock built with addictive riffs and melodies that are both refreshing and fun. They can pack a dance floor and create an atmosphere of masterfully intricate sounds.

Guitarist and vocalist Marcus David came up with the concept for Big Murder in 2013 while touring around Atlanta. In 2015 Marcus brought in Evan Buckler on drums and Randy Hall on bass, keys, and vocals to, “create this awesome band,” as he puts it. The debut album, Shifting Ground, was released in July 2016. Several local shows, a couple festivals, and several appearances on 99X Atlanta radio WWWQ highlighted the following year in support of the record.

The sophomore effort, Slow Moving Planet, was released January 2018. The tracks on this record range from the gritty-in-your-face-straight-up-guitar-driven rock of Barking at the Gods to the heartfelt lyrics of If You Leave. The final track, Political Correction, “shouts out warnings like a clipping audio meter.”

After a brief hiatus in 2019, the guys have reconvened to record their third record, No Small Plans, which will be released in June 2020. The album offers an interesting spin on human relationships. The band pens some interesting observations, all masterfully woven into their murderous grooves, that range from hard rock anthem "In My Head" to the nostalgic, angelic, dream-like feelings of "Swarm."

Big Murder has been compared to bands like Incubus, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, and Foo Fighters. That broad range of style stems from the band’s philosophy that music should be sonically interesting, but also touch the individual heart and soul of their listeners. When they write, there are no rules or formulas, so their songs are always unique, and never boring. 

The next year is going to be a big one for this band. The new album is their best work yet. Stages will rock with the band’s thunder after the release. So, the message here is to check out the tour schedule, ‘cause, “Big Murder has a lot of musical weaponry with which to kill!”

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