It’s a meeting of maverick musical minds as the genius of Wiley’s Step 20 is rebuilt from scratch by none other than Zomby. Zomby grew up listening to Wiley, and that shows in this thrilling production that harks back to OG grime whilst nudging the template a step or two forward. Wiley is one of the all time great MCs, and here Zomby lets that show by keeping the fired-up-and-then-some vocal always at the forefront. It doesn’t get better than this.
Roseau, AKA Kerry Leatham, has made the brilliant debut album she’s long promised to. As well as appearances on acclaimed records from Lapalux and DELS, an inclusion on Bonobo’s Late Night Tales, and tours with Lianne La Havas, Lucy Rose and Laura Mvula, Leatham’s music has been featured on Grey’s Anatomy and Adulthood. Add in her one million plus plays on YouTube and Spotify, a modelling campaign for Adidas Originals and being tipped by Shura; anticipation for her debut album as Roseau has been running high. Finally, at the end of June 2015, Big Dada is proud to announce the release of the album, Salt.
Marrying stories about modern life both rubbish and wondrous to bold, chiming, futuristic pop, Salt is a stunning record. Leatham’s talent for writing, her purposeful experiments and her mastery of several instruments as well as electronic production techniques, add up to a powerful arsenal. Leatham learned to write songs and perform uncanny harmonies long before she mastered Logic and laptops, and this finely honed ability sees her shine out from the pack.
Written and recorded in the space and quiet of the Essex countryside, Salt contains music both elemental and intimate. Its sonics were inspired by a chance exploration of a giant abandoned warehouse beside a walk Leatham loves. Finding herself in a vast space with only an old car tyre, an extinguished bonfire and some bottles and sticks, she screamed, threw bottles, sang, stomped, hit the tyre with the sticks, and made as many sounds as possible – then she came back, day after day, to record them.
These sounds form the backbone of Salt’s bewitching sonics, colouring the album with a powerful atmosphere, and providing the perfect backdrop for Leatham’s unique voice and lyrics. The album’s songs contain powerful themes; about the devastation of first heartbreak, the aftermath and numbness; about belonging, or not; and about self-confidence and its absence. Leatham’s love of stories goes back to the song-tales her grandfather sang her when she was a child. Salt is full of stories, whether about broken hearts and yearning (Salt,) troubled nights out (New Glass,) or the wired compulsion of a road trip (Florida,) Leatham enhances the natural beauty of her voice with her experimental harmonies and pitch shifts, adding texture to an album that’s casually littered with infectious hooks.
After starting work on the album at her parents’ house, she brought in Dogtanion, her friend and former Tape Club labelmate, for a fresh set of ears. The pair set about writing and recording in Red Bull’s studios, and Leatham soon roped in Jacob Welsh from The Hics and Mark Rainbow from Laurel Collective to help. After the bulk of the writing and recording was complete, she returned to her family home to tailor and tweak, putting the final production touches to her astonishing debut.
Salt is British music from the leftfield at its best: experimental but welcoming, deep but utterly addictive.
Skupina Big Foot Mama letos praznuje častitljivih 25 let delovanja! Gre za zavidljivo dobo med glasbenimi izvajalci na Slovenskem, v kateri se je nabralo 7 studjskih albumov, 23 radijskih singlov, 19 videospotov, celovečerni dokumentarni film Tist’ dan v tednu, prek 1000 koncertov, v vsem tem času pa so Bigfooti ostali ena najpopularnejših domačih glasbenih skupin! Praznovanje obletnice, naslovljeno LET 25, se je začelo v soboto, 30. maja, z ekskluzivnim klubskim koncertom v Berlinu – mestu snemanja zadnjega albuma Izhod. Tam so fantje obelodanili svoje načrte za praznovanje, ki bo potekalo vse do jeseni.
JUBILEJNI DVOJNI GREATEST HITS
Big Foot Mama bo častitljivo obletnico, kot se to za jubilej spodobi, obeležila z dvojno zbirko največjih uspešnic 1990-2015, ki bo izšla pri Nika Records in med katerimi ne bodo manjkale zimzelene skladbe, kot so Nisem več s tabo, Led s severa, Oklep, Črn tulipan, Neki sladkega, Rola se, Užitek na replay, Mala nimfomanka, Nor sigurno ne, Garbič …
LET 25, ARENA STOŽICE – 2. OKTOBRA!
Višek pa bo praznovanje Let 25 doseglo 2. oktobra z velikim koncertom v ljubljanski ARENI STOŽICE, kjer se bodo Bigfootom pridružili številni glasbeni prijatelji, ki so v vseh teh letih z njimi sodelovali v takšni ali drugačni obliki.
Gosti na koncertu:
PETER LOVŠIN & VITEZI OBLOŽENE MIZE
FANTJE S PRAPROTNA
GUŠTI
NEISHA
DAVOR KLARIČ
IRENA PREDA
KLEMEN KOTAR & BRASCI
NINA KAY
SLAVIŠA STOJANOVIĆ, MATEJ MRŠNIK, SLAVEN KALEBIĆ
MARTIN JANEŽIČ – BUCO
ROK GERBEC
PRVA POSTAVA BIG FOOT MAME 1990
TOMI M., TOKAC, MAROLT, TONČ&DIMEK
BIG FOOT MAMA – TIST DAN V TEDNU (Dokumentarni film o skupini Big Foot Mama)
BIG FOOT MAMA – TRETJA DIMENZIJA (1999)
Tretja dimenzija je tretji album BIG FOOT MAME. Skupina je material za ploščo posnela v Studiu Melopoja, poleg ‘hišnega’ producenta Žareta Paka pa je pri nastajanju albuma sodeloval Zed, ki je izdatno pomagal s svojimi izkušnjami iz angleških in belgijskih studiev. Končno podobo je album dobil v Belgiji, Studio Louis je tačas veljal za enega boljših v Evropi.
BIG FOOT MAMA – DOBA NORIH (2001)
Doba norih, četrti album BIG FOOT MAME, je izšel v prvi polovici leta 2001. Album je bil posnet v studiu Štala pri Brežicah, za produkcijo je poskrbel Žarko Pak. Na tem albumu se je skupina nekoliko odmaknila od svojega značilnega izraza in se poskusila v eksperimentiranju z drugačnimi glasbenimi elementi (loopi, sampli, rap, ska, disko, operni vokali…). Pri poslušalcih in kritikih, pa tudi znotraj skupine, je album naletel na deljene odzive. Je tudi zadnji album pri katerem je kot član skupine še sodeloval MIHA GUŠTIN – GUŠTI
