Fusing a blend of Blues, Jazz, and Folk music, singer songerwiter Atlanta has performed live in Australia, and the UK over the last 10 years.
Collaborative projects have seen her work with renowned Jazz and Classical Australian musicians Nick Tsiavos (Jouissance ABC Radio’s New Music Australia and Poetica) and Peter Neville (Jouissance, The Southbank Ensemble, and The ZappaInstrumentaale) on two cross-cultural recordings centered on the poetry of activist poet Abidya from Indonesia.
The recordings titted Indonesia were reviewed on ‘Creatures of the Spotlight’ JJJ Radio, Australia.
Taking time to refine her songwriting Atlanta moved to London in 2009.
In 2011, she had formed a duo with guitarist Jon Bartoeff and played a residency @ The Spiritual Caprinia Bar - Camden Town, London featuring special guests Anselmo Netto, Ulisses Bezerra on percussion.
Surrounded by an outstanding combination of musicians, engineer and studio; the time was NOW to make a home for her songs.
Atlanta's debut album titled NORTH, showcases her songwritng and dynamic vocals. Here she draws upon her love of spoken word poetry and a sense of the theatrical, with depth and conviction.
“Melbourne artist the hauntingly beautiful Atlanta will begin the evening’s entertainment with a selection of her unforgettable songs.”
Byron Shire The Echo Paper 2007
NORTH ALBUM
Recorded @ The Fishmarket Studio, London, during August 2011.
The Musicians
JON BRATOEFF / ELECTRIC GUITAR
He is a founding member of the award winning F-IRE collective and has been part of a certain revival of the UK jazz scene playing alongside jazz luminaries, Seb Rochford (Polar bear), Pete Wareham (Acoustic ladyland), Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Arthurs, Ben Davis (Basquiat strings), Nick Ramm (Clown Revisited) and many others including Julian Siegel, Martin Speake, Soweto Kinch, Orphy Robinson, Shabaka Hutchings.
He plays with award winning combo Porpoise Corpus and the F-IRE COLLECTIVE a large ensemble he has composed several scores for. He is currently based in Berlin.
AMIE MORRISON / DRUMS AND PRECUSSION
A versatile, dynamic, and creative drummer with ten years plus of playing drums professionally in London under his belt, he has seen each year get more challenging and interesting.
Here are some other artists Jamie’s played for:
Duffy
Martha Reeves and the Vandals
Noisettes
Gabriella Chilmi
Fyfe Dangerfield
Sia
http://drumset.premier-percussion.com/artists/jamie-morrison
BEN LAMDIN / ENGINNER AND PRODUCER
Ben Lamdin’s creations range from heavy funk, to hip-hop based beats mixed with dusty old jazz, obscuro funk and psych bits and pieces. Nostalgia 77 aka Ben Lamdin first burst onto the scene with his heavy, new funk based sound in 2002. In 2004 he moved away from the distinctive raw funk of his previous singles and he branched out to explore a more downtempo and jazz infused style.
Having won Jazz Album of the Year and the John Peel Play More Jazz Award at the BBC Worldwide Awards, he counts Gilles Peterson and Laurent Garnier among his most ardent fans.
HENRIK JENSEN / DOUBLE BASS
Jensen’s musical versatility has seen him work in many different line-ups and with a number of leading Jazz musicians such as Martin Speake, Pete Wareham, Stand Sultzman, Asaf Sirkis, and Rodger Beaujolai. Jensen also leads his own quartet “Followed By Thirteen’, which he founded in 2010.
For the last six years Jensen has also been working London based trio ‘The Puppini Sisters, whom he has toured with internationally and recorded with for major label Verve and UMG.
STEPHEN LARGE / HAMMOND AND BABY GRAND
Stephen Large is Musical Director for pop artists Rebecca Ferguson and Duffy, as well as having MD’d for the legendary US soul group Martha Reeves and The Vandella’s, James Brown’s sax legend Pee Wee Ellis, English Jazz singer Clare Teal, and his own highly acclaimed 60s-influenced combo, Lord Large.
As a keyboard player, Large has worked with, amongst others, Pamola Faith, Rumer, Imelda May, Quantic Soul Orchestra with Spanky Wilson, Terry Reid, Pete Doherty, Baby Shambles and the Noisettes, as well as being a founder member of jazz outfits The Rag n Bone Club and Ronnie Scott’s Rejects.
Reel to reel / The Fishmarket Studio
Dusty / The studio cat
KAMAL MUSALLAM / MASTERING ENGINEER
Kamal is a renowned Arabic Fusion artist and producer, and has worked on over 20 records with a wide variety of styles, acting as a recording artist, producer, co-producer and mastering engineer.
EL FOUKR R'ASSEMBLY
Live Performance
Sharjhah Arts Foundation, United Arab Emirates, November 17th 2017
EL FOUKR R'ASSEMBLY is a 6-piece TranSaharan African band.
MUSICANS:
PERCUSSION & TALKING FLUTE: Adama Diarra
