AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? We are IS TROPICAL, a trio formed in 2009 in the basement of a squat in South London in order to create enough collective body heat to counteract the sub-zero temperatures. AAAmusic: What inspired you to get into music? We’re quite schizophrenic in our approach to [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? I’m Eliphino - I come from Leeds originally but now call London home. AAAmusic: What inspired you to get into music? It’s always been my primary passion since very early on in my life, so it was natural that I’d have a go at making my own [...]
Petros Klampanis is the leader, composer-arranger and bassist of Contextual Trio, a NY jazz formation which played on last Wednesday in Paris at the Cultural Centre of Serbia, organised by the Hellenic Cultural Centre (Read our review here…). Petros’s life is split between NY stages and classrooms where he teaches between the US and Greece. [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? I am Lisa Cuthbert, an Irish singer songwriter, now based in France. AAAmusic: What inspired you to get into music? I started playing the piano at a very young age, with the ambition of becoming a concert pianist. I finished all of my exams, and by that stage [...]
Robert Glasper is part of the “new breed” of modern jazz artists taking the genre to a new audience. Along with artists such as Christian Scott and Jose James, this 35-year-old pianist-producer has been fusing new age sounds with oldschool jazz. In 2012 his Robert Glasper Experiment album Black Radio won the Grammy for best RnB [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? We are Dawn of Midi. Amino Belyamani on piano, Aakaash Israni on bass and Qasim Naqvi on drums. Amino was born and raised in Morocco, I was born in India but raised in America, and Qasim was born in the states of Pakistani descent. The three [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? We are Antlered Man from London, a small place called Bermondsey. We hold no real candle for the place and don’t know if it inspires any part of our sound, it’s just a place where some of our parents got to last base and we now [...]
Grammy nominated singer-songwriter and actress Sheila Escovedo, known by her stage name as Sheila E, is also a well-known drummer and percussionist. She was musical director for President Obama’s Musica Latina at The White House and her collaborations include Prince and Ringo Starr. Interviewer Anthony Weightman chatted to her in California ahead of her European [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? Hey, I’m Scarlette Fever, nice to meet you! I guess Scarlette Fever was born four or five years ago; I was already a singer/songwriter and tired of taking myself and my music too seriously. It was time to release my inner drag queen!!! AAAmusic: What inspired [...]
AAAmusic: Who are you and where are you from? Submotion Orchestra started in Leeds about four years ago as a completely improvised project that aimed to bring together bass driven dance music and jazz. Dom Ruckspin and I had worked together previously on a writing commission that gave us the initial ideas that formed the base [...]