Notes From The Bridge

Bridging the Gap July 30, 2025 *Funkallisto: "Fatebenefratelli" (Saturday Night Dogs 2017) Funkallisto is a jazz/funk band that got recognition playing on Ponte Sisto, a historical bridge in Rome with a car battery & power inverter. They built their fan base and became much sought after in Italy and now the world! *Kind & Kinky Zoo: "Pamukkale" (Swamp! 2022) K&KZ are a band from Lausanne Switzerland playing funk, psych, afrobeat & cinematic grooves. Oliver Bill flute, Marc Siegenthaler keys Adrian Knecht bass, Sylvain Rutti drums. *Jimi Tenor: "Jazznouveau" (Multiversum 2022) Finnish musician, comp. & artist Lassi Lehto is Jimi Tenor. He combines jazz, synth sounds, afrobeat & drum machine dubs to create his off kilter sound. *Khun Narin: "Phua Kao" (Khun Narin II 2016) Khun Narin is a Thai psychedelic music ensemble led by Khun Narin. They perform around Thailand with a rotating line-up of musicians. They were discovered ...

Bridging the Gap July 23, 2025 *Jenova 7 & Eddie Shinn: "Flying Cabs" (A Cosmic Safari 2016) Boston multi-media artist Michael J. Sirois is Jenova 7. He plays trip hop, downt. & inst. hip hop. Eddie Shinn is a Russian prod. from Ulyanovsk. *RJD2: "Trunk Of My Computer (Inst.)" (The STS Instrumentals 2015) Amer. hip hop/electronic prod. & DJ, Ramble Jon Krohn is RJD2. He runs his own record label RJ's Electrical Connections. *Skeletons: "Marathon Man" (Smile 2010) Benedic Lamdin is a musician, prod. & eng. He produced records as Nostalgia 77 and owns the Impossible Ark label. This album is a collection of "scraps of sound" left by musicians that played with him on other projects assembled by Lamdin. *Sono Rhizmo: "O Telefone" (Sono Rhizmo 2010) Sono Rhizmo is a project of Mo' Horizon's comp. prod. Ralf Droesemeyer incorporating funk, soul & other styles into covers, remixes & original compositions. *Ro...

Bridging the Gap July 16, 2025 *Taj Mahal: "Blackjack Davey" (Mo' Roots 1974) Henry St. Claire Fredericks is Amer. blues/rock vox multi-inst. songwr. legend Taj Mahal. He chose that name from dreams he had about Mahatma Ghandi, India & social tolerance. *Shuggie Otis: "Act Uh Mi Hed" (Inspiration Information 1974) Amer. sing/songwr multi-inst. who began performing at age 11 with his father Johnny Otis' band disguising himself with sunglasses & a fake mustache. *Bob Marley & The Wailers: "Put It On" (Burnin' 1973) Jamaican reggae & ska band The Wailers formed in 1963 and gave rise to Bob Marley & Peter Tosh. Bob Marley became the most iconic performer & spokesperson in the history of reggae. *The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger: "Devil You Know" (Midnight Sun 2014) Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl are GOASTT. He is a multi-inst. sing/songwr. & son of John Lennon & Yoko Ono. She is an Amer. model, sing/...

Bridging the Gap July 9, 2025 *Booker T. & The MG's: "Fuquawi" (Melting Pot 1970) Amer. inst. band feat. Booker T. Jones on keys & Steve Cropper on lead guit. They were one of the first racially integrated rock groups and the house band for Stax Records. *Blundetto: "Pais Azucar" (Good Good Things 2020) Blundetto is French prod. DJ, sing. comp. Max Guiguet playing electro, funk, soul, jazz, reggae, dub & world music. *Bebo Best & The Super Lounge Orchestra: "Ocean 14" (Jazzmamba 2016) Italian comp. musician, arr. & eng. Bebo Baldan is Bebo Best. He has worked with a wide variety of international musicians from FZ to Nicola Conte & is now based in Portugal. *Beastie Boys: "Namaste" (The In Sound From Way Out! 1996) Amer. hip hop band formed in 1981 as a hard core punk group. They became a rap band & continued until 2012 after the death of vox & bassist Adam Yauch. *The Mackrosoft: "Life Is Too Short" (...

Bridging the Gap June 2, 2025 *Thunderball: "Thunder In The Jungle feat. Afrika Bambaataa" (Cinescope 2006) T-ball were a Wash. DC based band feat. Sid Barcelona, Steve Raskin & Rob Myers. They added Jon Horvath when they became The Fort Knox Five. A Bambaataa is Amer. DJ & hip hop artist Lance Taylor. *The Funk Fury: "That's The Funk" (Funk 'n Beats Vol. 4 2018) A Russian prod. playing old school funk stylings while projecting fresh sounds. *The Fort Knox Five: "Ready Go feat. Raashan Ahmad" (Pressurize The Cabin 2015) Amer. band from Wash DC playing funk, reggae, hip hop & electronica. R Ahmad Amer. sing. MC & poet based in Santa Fe NM. *The Tikiyaki Orchestra: "Space Tango" (Tropika 2023) Modern exotica band from LA Ca led by multi-inst. comp. Jim Bacchi. *Don Tiki: "Tinfoil Hats" (South Of The Boudoir 2009) Honolulu's own Don Tiki is campy exotica at it's best. Led by Kit Ebersbach (Perry Coma) they p...