BOOGIE NIGHT @ BOILER ROOM LONDON

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Easy music for the weekend.

KON – BOOGIE NIGHT @ BOILER ROOM LONDON

DIMITRI FROM PARIS – BOOGIE NIGHT @ BOILER ROOM LONDON

BRIAN NOT BRIAN – BOOGIE NIGHT @ BOILER ROOM LONDON

DAN SHAKE – BOOGIE NIGHT @ BOILER ROOM LONDON

DENNIS BROWN TRIBUTE

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ebruary 1st, marked the late reggae and lover’s rock icon Dennis Brown’s 59th birthday. Hailed by NPR Morning Edition as one of the 50 great voices of all time and by Bob Marley as one of the best reggae singers in the world – the revered Jamaican icon began his recording career at the tender age of 11 and has more than 75 albums to date. Even though he passed away at the early age of 42, his music and legacy lives on.

VP Records, reggae’s leading distributor and label, will pay homage this spring with an extensive tribute album We Remember Dennis Brown of his timeless hits covered by some reggae and r&b’s most renowned artists today. Each song was re-produced by Jamaican legend Clive Hunt with his all-star team of musicians to give each song an authentic yet fresh feel.

To celebrate the icon during his birthday month, VP Records will reveal one song from the album every Friday for the next five weeks – including “Caress Me Girl” on Feb 5 from one of Jamaica’s brightest voices Romain Virgo, “Milk & Honey” on Feb 12 by roots reggae rockers Raging Fyah, “Bloody City” on Feb 19 from the Caribbean’s soulful songstress Jah9, “Promised Land” on Feb 26 from Hawaiian reggae band The Green and “Have You Ever” on Mar 4 by R&B powerhouse Marsha Ambrosius.

In addition to these power hitters, We Remember Dennis Brown will feature an array of singers from Brown’s native country and across the globe who he influenced. Jamaica’s latest crop of stars (including Jah Cure, Gyptian, Chronixx and Jesse Royal) as well as the island’s icons who worked with Brown (like reggae vocalists Bushman and Freddie McGregor) all offer their contributions. Freddie’s son Chino McGregor and Christopher Ellis, the talented UK-based singer and offspring of Alton Ellis (another one of Brown’s musical mentors and confidants), both deliver powerful renditions of Brown’s classics. New Zealand rockers also create a breezy rendition of “If I Had The World.” The worldly collection proves that his universal sound transcends all boundaries of time, race and creed. Each artist adds their own original flair to Brown’s profound soul-stirring sound – touching the hearts of new and old fans alike on this unique multi-disc collection. We Remember Dennis Brown will include deluxe packaging as well as extensive liner notes on the belated legend.

DENNIS BROWN
Dennis Brown was greatly influenced by American balladeers such as Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin as well as Jamaican singers like Delroy Wilson and John Holt. At only 12-years-old, he cut his first hit “No Man Is An Island” at Clement “Coxsone” Dodd’s famous Studio One. Within the years, he was a force to be reckoned with musically – dubbed the “Boy Wonder of Jamaica” and “Crown Prince of Reggae.” Before he was 16, he had worked with Jamaica’s top recording artists (Alton Ellis, Horace Andy) and producers of the time (Prince Buster, Dennis Alcapone, Winston “Niney” Holness and Vincent “Randy” Chin). In the 1970s, he worked closely with producer Joe Gibbs and released multiple albums. One of the album’s songs “Money in my Pocket,” peaked at #14 on UK Top 40 chart becoming one of the biggest international hits in Jamaica’s history. This success landed him the cover of the NME’s February 1979 issue. Enthusiastically adapting to the new dancehall era, Brown released a huge amount of work throughout the 1980s recording with genre’s major producers like King Jammy on Brown’s 1986 album The Exit and Gussie Clarke in 1989 with the Gregory Isaacs duet “Big All Round” and the album Unchallenged. He continued to record prolifically in the 1990s before his passing. His 1994 album Light My Fire and 2001 release Let Me Be the One were both nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.

WE REMEBER DENNIS FROM COMPILATION

SELAH SUE + KATJA ŠULC – 19.3. @ KINO ŠIŠKA

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Nabrita belgijska soul/funk/fusion zvezdnica Selah Sue končno pri nas! Poleg repertoarja z lanskoletnega albuma Reason bomo v živo in v polni koncertni formi slišali hite Raggamuffin, Crazy Vibes, This World in druge s katerimi je Selah Sue bliskovito osvojila Evropo in svet in vas in nas!

Prvenec Selah Sue (2011) se je v Evropi prodal v več kot 720.000 izvodih, od tega 320.000 samo v Franciji. Leta 2011 so na lestvicah kraljevale njeni singli “Raggamuffin”, “Crazy Vibes” in “This World”, prejela pa je tudi evropsko nagrado EBBA po izboru občinstva (European Border Breakers Award), ki so ji jo podelili na slavnostni ceremoniji januarja 2012 na festivalu Eurosonic Noorderslag v Groningenu.

28. avgusta 2012 je njen prvenec izšel tudi v ZDA, kjer je bil deležen navdušenih kritik. V samo enem tednu so zabeležili več kot 400.000 spletnih prenosov. Revija Rolling Stone je Selah Sue razglasila za enega novih obrazov leta 2012.

Zdaj ko so minila štiri leta od njenega prvenca, Selah Sue morda res še ni premagala svojih demonov, vendar jih je ukrotila do te mere, da je lahko napisala skladbe za album Reason, ki prekipevajo od energije, svetlobe in čustev ter vam že ob prvih taktih spodnesejo tla pod nogami. Njihova avtorica, ki se zdi kot zraščena s svojo kitaro, je polna življenja, a hkrati tudi brazgotin. »Uspeh mi ni zacelil ran,« pravi. »V resnici se ni nič spremenilo. Na poti sem, moj boj bo trajal do konca življenja.

Domača podpora bo KATJA ŠULC ( + DJ PIER & IGOR MATKOVIČ).

Vstopnice: 22 EUR v predprodaji / 25 EUR na dan.

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SELAH SUE – REASON (Lp)

SELAH SUE (Live Deezer Session)

KATJA ŠULC – TWISTED DELIGHT (Lp)