Bridging the Gap August 7, 2024

*Blundetto: "Les Fleurs De Carole" (Cousin Zaka Vol. 2 2022) Max Guiguet (Blundetto) French producer, composer, DJ & singer plays funk, soul, reggae, dub, jazz & world music.

*New Visionaries: "Spiritual World" (Roadmaps 2024) Australian artist Joel Sarakula & Dutch musician Phil Martin began collaborating when Joel got stranded in The Netherlands during Covid & New Visionaries was born.

*Go.Soul.Map.: "Cat With Camera" (Peaceful Sound For Broken Minds 2024) Go.Soul.Map. aka Salvo "Dub" Bruno a Sicilian musician/producer blends cinematic soul, psychedelia and jazzy inflections.

*Angelique Kidjo: "Eledjire" (Logozo 1991) Angelique Kidjo was born into a musical family in Benin, West Africa. She began singing in her older brothers' band at age 6. She was heavily influenced by So. Afr. singer Miriam Makeba.

*Margaret Singana: "Ubukhwele" (Next Stop Soweto Vol. 4 ) Margaret Singana was a world renowned So. Afr. singing star known as "Lady Africa." Unfortunately, she died in 2000 largely forgotten.

*Brenda Fassie: "Let It Be" (Abantu Bayakhuluma 1994) B. Fassie was a So. Afr. anti-apartheid, Afropop singer who started her career at age 16 and came to be called "So. Africa's queen of pop."

*Brooklyn Funk Essentials: "Take The L Train (To 8 Ave.)" (Cool And Steady And Easy 1993) BFE is a music collective mixing jazz, funk & hip hop. Conceived by producer Arthur Baker & bassist, musical director Lati Kronlund,

*The Cosmic Surf Club: "Tonight" (Parallel Worlds 2018) Cosmic Surf Club is a music production team feat. Zane Wayne Massey (sax, flute, composer, arr.), Saskia Jonker (vox, mixing), Coen Aalberts (drums, perc.) & Maxim Baghuis (piano, keys, composer, arr.) based in The Netherlands.

*Uyama Hiroto: "Just For You" (Freedom Of The Sun 2014) Japanese saxophonist, multi-inst. & producer collaborated frequently with Nujabes.

*Yppah: "Where We Are Safe" (Tiny Pause 2015) Yppah, (happy spelled backwards), is multi-inst. songwr. & producer Joe Corrales Jr. He played guitar & bass in high school and later evolved into electronic music.

*TM Juke: "Map Two" (Maps From The Wilderness 2003) Brighton UK musician, producer, songwr. Alex Cowan studied classical & jazz guitar as a child before tinkering with samplers partly to annoy his father who forced the formal musical lessons on young Alex.

*Thievery Corporation: "Fragments" (Culture Of Fear 2011) Amer. electronic duo of Eric Hilton & Rob Garza out of Wash. DC bonded around their mutual love for 60s & 70s bossa nova & jazz.

*Spyn Reset: "L.E.D." (Four Dimensional Audio 2012) Seattle band combining rock guitars with electro synthesizers and hard driving melodies.

HOUR 2

*Spy From Cairo: "Marseilles Noir" (Arabadub 2012) Italian/Gypsy Moreno Visini aka Spy From Cairo, Zeb & Organic Grooves lives in NYC is a talented musician and studio wizard with scores of remixes under his belt.

*Mungal & Nitin Sahwney: "Awake" (Asian Groove ) Nitin Sahwney is a British multi-inst. producer &. composer of Indian descent.  He studied classical & flamenco guitar, piano, sitar & tabla as a child. Mungal is a sitar player born in Trinidad.

*Mickey Hart: "Udu Chant" (Mondo Beat: Masters Of Percussion 2003) Mickey Hart is a drummer & percussionist best known for his work with The Grateful Dead. He is also a champion of world music & invented an instrument called 'the beam' which produces booming percussive and psychedelic sounds.

*Kylie Auldist: "It's On" (Tru Thoughts Funk 2009) Kylie Auldist is a Samoan-Australian soul & funk vocalist. She came from rural Australia to pursue her musical career and began with The Bamboos in Melbourne.

*The Bamboos: "Step It Up feat. Alice Russell" (Step It Up 2006) The Bamboos are a funk/soul group from Melbourne Australia.  Alice Russell is a British soul singer.

*Gemma & The Travellers: "I've Got No Feelin'" (Too Many Rules & Games 2017) The Travellers were born when Gemma Marchi came up from Italy and met Robert P. an Anglo-Swedish guitarist. They ended up in Normandy which they found conducive to their creative process.

*De-Phazz: "Need To Be Strong feat. Ola Onabule" (Jelly Banquet 2022) Downtempo German nu jazz group led by sound painter, producer Pit Baumgartner.  Ola Onabule is a British-Nigerian sing/songwr.

*Club Des Belugas & Iain Mackenzie: "Yadadey Samba" (Stranger Things Beyond The Sunny Side 2019) CDB is led by Maxim Ilion (Martin Kratzenstein) & Kitty The Bill (Katrin Stoffel) and employ a plethora of musicians & vocalists. Iain Mackenzie is a British jazz & big band singer.

*Tape Five: "I Like The Twilight" (Soiree Deluxe 2017) German musical project founded by sing/songwr. producer Martin Strathausen playing swing, nu jazz, latin, lounge, dub, trip hop & chill out.

*Thunderball: "Thunder In The Jungle feat. Africa Bambaataa" (Cinescope 2006) Wash. DC based band feat. Sid Barcelona, Steve Raskin & Rob Myers using elements of dub, funk, bossa & soul to create their genre jumping sound. Africa Bambaataa (Lance Taylor) is a pioneering hip hop artist.

*Nappy Riddem: "Angle It" (10 Years Of Fort Knox Recordings 2012) Uplifting & conscious reggae band started by Mustafa Akbar & Rex Riddem with drummer Jon Modell. Their brand of 'dancehall funk' moves bodies, hearts and minds.

*Bootsy Collins: "Thera-P feat. Tyshaw Colquitt & Alissia Benveniste" (World Wide Funk 2017) William Earl Collins played with Parliament Funkadelic, James Brown and has a stellar solo career. 

*Sugarman Three: "Bosco's Country" (Pure Cane Sugar 2002) NY based funky boogaloo band led by saxophonist Neal Sugarman,