Bridging the Gap August 14, 2024

*Orgone: "Down, Down, Down" (Beyond The Sun 2015) The funk/soul band from LA is led by Dan Hastie on keys and Sergio Rios on guitar.

*Kinny & Horne: "Dirty Thang (New Mix)" (Single 2024) Canadian born Caitlin Simpson is indigenous Canadian, Jamaican, French & Swedish. Espen Horne is Norwegian funky jazz maven responsible for the Bobby Hughes Experience & BH Combination.

*Bella Brown & The Jealous Lovers: "Bang Bang Bang" (Soul Clap 2024) Bella & the Lovers put a modern spin on 60s & 70s soul & funk. Sing./songwr. Carol Hatchett is Bella Brown and delivers the goods.

*Organic Grooves: "Free Ticket To Heaven" (Force Of Gravity 2003) NYC DJ/producer Moreno Visini, AKA Spy From Cairo, Zeb recording under his OG moniker.

*RJD2: "Milk Tooth" (More Is Than Isn't 2013) Amer. hip hop/electronic prod. comp. & DJ Ramble Jon Krohn began in 2001 as a solo artist.

*Ray Barbee: "Tina Cut" (Tiara For Computer 2018) RB is and Amer. pro skater, composer & multi-inst. fm San Jose, CA. He has played in Blktop Project with fellow skaters Tommy Guerrero & Matt Rodriguez

*Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno: "Echate Pa'lla" (Dog With A Rope 2010) Quantic, AKA Will Holland lived and recorded in Colombia for 6 yrs. in the early 2000s. Flowering Inferno was one of a few of his side projects during that time.

*Ondatropica: "La Naranja Madura" (Baile Bucanero 2016) Collaboration between Quantic (Will Holland) and Colombian musician Mario Galeano. Another of Quantic's Colombian dalliances.

*Money Chicha: "Pacifico" (Chicha Summit 2021) Brownout & Grupo Fantasma members, including Adrian Quesada & Beto Martinez interpreting the psychedelic 'chicha' music of Peru.

*Tam Tam 2000: "Melhor Futuro" (Synthesize The Soul... ) TT2K formed in Mulhouse, France in 1976, They have reunited and perform regularly for Cape Verdean audiences in Senegal, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg,The Netherlands & Switzerland.

*Mamo Lagbema: "Love, Music And Dance" (Bambara Mystic Soul... ?) Singer from the West African country of Togo.

*The Big Beats: "Mi Sumoo Bo Donn" (Ghana Special... ) Ghanaian afrobeat band led by Linden Lee.

*Girma Hadgu: "Ene Alantchi Alnorem" (Ethiopiques Vol. 4... ) Ethiopian songwriter & musician who helped steer Ethiopian music to popularity.

HOUR 2

*Frank Zappa: "Inca Roads" (The Lost Episodes 1996) Amer. composer, guitarist, satirist, producer & film maker. FZ's oeuvre ranged from orchestral music to rock n roll with a vast selection of styles in between. I believe this is the first iteration of 'Inca Roads' from the Studio Z days.

*Sun Ra: "Mayan Temple" (Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection... ) Amer. free jazz composer, pianist & bandleader. Sun Ra was a pioneer of free improvisation & modal jazz & also an early user of electronic keyboards & synthesizers.

*Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin: "Brother John" (Music Is My Medicine 2009) Eternal mystery man, Clutchy Hopkins & Lord Kenjamin, purportedly a medicine man from Barbados who uses hand made percussion instruments.

*Mondo Grosso: "Overflowing feat. Mika Nakashima" (Big World 2022) MG is Jap. prod. & comp. Shinichi Osawa plays electronic music with many different vocalists. Mika N: Jap. sing/songwr. actress

*Coma-Chi: "Inori" (Jomon Green2018) Japanese singer/rapper & astrologist established her own label: Queen's Room.

*Pizzicato Five: "Serial Stories" (Pizzicato Five TM 1999) Jap. duo of singer Maki Nomiya & multi-inst. composer & DJ Yasuharu Konishi. 

*Public Service Broadcasting: "Night Mail" (Inform-Educate-Entertain 2013) London based duo of J. Willgoose Esq (guitar, banjo, stringed inst. elec. inst. & sampling) & Wrigglesworth (drums, piano & elec. inst.)  produce their own style while 'teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future.'

*Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart: "Symmetrical/Asymmetrical" (Everything Is No Thing 2016) English bassist, singer, poet & composer John Joseph Wardle is Jah Wobble.

*Medeski Martin & Wood: "Hay-Hee-Hi-Ho (Ilyb Remix)" (Note Bleu... 2006) John Medeski (keys) Billy Martin (drums) & Chris Wood (bass) play an avant-groove style with roots in hip hop and funk.

*Espen Horne: "La Psychosomnie" (The Anatomy Of Serene Eloquence 2023) Espen Horne is a legendary producer & DJ from Norway. He was responsible for the Bobby Hughes Experience & Bobby Hughes Combination and collaborations with Kinny (Caitlin Simpson.)

*Nightmares On Wax: "The Othership" (Shape The Future 2018) George Evelyn aka DJ E.A.S.E. English DJ & producer was introduced to Quincy Jones & Curtis Mayfield by his dad & sister. 

*Angels Of Libra: "House Of Zeus" (Revelations 2023) Hamburg Germany soul band Angels Of Libra feat. prod. guit. Dennis Rux, keyboardist Chris Haertel, bassist David Nesselhauf & drummer Lucas Kochbeck came together at a session in Denmark.

*Inf: "Hospital Lullaby" (Music For Crime Scenes 2013) Dutch DJ & beat maker Bas Te Braak (Inf) began as a rapper. In 2009 he initiated his instrumental output.