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www.dorightmusic.com presents...
Lee Fields & The Expressions Live!
CD Release Party for "MY WORLD"
http://www.myspace.com/leefields
El Michels Affair
http://www.truthandsoulrecords.com/el-michels
Special Live performance by Saidah Baba Talibah
plus DJ John Kong & Circle Research
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
Revival Bar - 783 College St. Toronto, ON
www.revivalbar.com
$20 Adv. at Play De Record, Soundscapes and Slinky Music
Online Tickets at buy Online: http://milkaudio.com/web/store_main.php
9 PM
Confirm your attendance here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=137859817632
Lee Fields
http://www.myspace.com/leefields
Lee Fields is a bona-fide, 100%, unadulterated, pure, gut-bucket soul singer. While the crate-digging funk and soul community bestowed "legendary" status upon him due to his undeniably solid series of rare 7" singles (and one LP) recorded and released on his own independent labels in the 70s, he's never been one to sit in a dusty corner. New York production team Truth & Soul (El Michel Affair, Bronx River Parkway), are ready to bring him to light with a brand new album of beat-heavy, deep soul ballads that will show soul-revivalists the world over what real soul is.
When Truth & Soul launched in 2004, the first mission of label owners/producers Jeff Silverman and Leon Michels, was to record a sweet soul record that would be modeled after the near perfect formula that bands like The Moments, The Delfonics, and The Stylistics had created, but with a decidedly modern bend.
Four years later and Lee Fields & The Expressions have successfully created a unique and personal sound that can hold court with the bands they set out to emulate. However, what they’ve created in the process goes beyond just a carbon copy of a sweet soul music from the 60's and early 70's. The formula has remained the same but the style has been adapted for the ears of youngsters whose experiences with soul may began with Amy Winehouse. Thirty years of retrospection has colored this cross-generational melding of the minds. It sounds odd on paper, but the results are classic: hip hop-reared record collectors come full circle to produce an album of beautiful soul music with one of the progenitors who made it all possible.
PRESS QUOTES
“Sharon Jones may be the queen of American revivalist soul, but what's easy to forget is that Jones was discovered by Phillip Lehman and Gabriel Roth singing backup for Fields on a session in the mid-90s…. My World is a throwback done right.” Pitchfork 7.7
“Lee Fields is the real deal” Voted #9 of Best of 2009 So Far by Complex
“the veteran soul singer aims to remind today’s generation of neo-soul crooners about where the music came from” Okayplayer.com
“They could be from 1975 and we would not know the difference, which is probably a good thing.” Fader
El Michels Affair
http://www.truthandsoulrecords.com/el-michels
El Michels Affair first appeared in 2002 for a 12" single on Soul Fire records entitled Easy Access Parts 1 & 2. The release was a loose collaboration between Soul Fire session musicians that featured saxophonist and organist Leon Michels. However, the style and sound of El Michels Affair, which was later coined “cinematic soul”, came about when Leon Michels and Nick Movshon, fellow band mates from The Mighty Imperials, began recording music in Michels’s bedroom studio. Leon Michels had purchased a Tascam 388 (a home recording 8-track module from the early eighties), and began experimenting with music that purposely strayed from the cookie cutter funk that began to saturate the market at the time. Taking influence from all types of music, Michels and Movshon began to create new type of soul music that blended the cinematic quality of soundtrack records with the recording aesthetic of early reggae, and the rawness of 60's rock. As the record took shape, Michels brought in fellow musicians and friends to help shape the style and sound of the record, which would be commercially released on Truth & Soul as Sounding Out The City. Some of the musicians included in the sessions were old band mates from the Mighty Imperials, Homer Steinweiss and Sean Solomon, as well as Todd Simon, Michael Leonhart, Thomas Brenneck, Aaron Johnson, Ben Solomon, and Toby Pazner.
In 2005, after the record had generated an industry buzz, Scion approached El Michels Affair with the prospect of performing with Raekwon from the Wu-Tang Clan. The epic grittiness of Rza's production matched perfectly with the soulful, cinematic sound El Michels Affair was known for. In fact, it matched so well that El Michels Affair went on to play four more concerts with members of the Wu-Tang, including a national tour with Raekwon, which climaxed into a series of critically acclaimed 7" releases from El Michels Affair which were instrumental re-interpolations of Rza’s original beats.
El Michels Affair has since been recording a full record of Wu-Tang instrumentals as well as material for an upcoming album of originals. Always pushing the boundaries, never trying to repeat themselves, expect the unexpected when it comes to the music of El Michels Affair
CANADIAN TOUR DATES
OCT 2 – POP MONTREAL @ LA SALA ROSSA – MONTREAL
OCT 3 – REVIVAL – TORONTO
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Press contact: Jay Cleary | Right On! Media
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