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CONGREGATION

new single out april 28th. album out may 12th

About Me



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CONGREGATION SINGLE
DON'T PAY NO MIND b/w
BUILDING A WALL AROUND MY HEART

OUR DEBUT SINGLE IS RELEASED ON OCTOBER 15TH THROUGH
VELO
AND IS AVAILABLE ON 7" HEAVY VINYL &
DOWNLOADABLE THROUGH iTUNES
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CLICK HERE TO
DOWNLOAD FROM iTUNES

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7" VINYL ON SALE
IN THE FOLLOWING PLACES
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***PUREGROOVE***
679 HOLLOWAY ROAD, LONDON, N19
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FROM 'PUREGROOVE' MAIL ORDER

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***ROUGH TRADE STORES***
91 Brick Lane,London E1 6QL
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130 Talbot Road,London W11
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***TATTY DEVINE***
236 Brick Lane London E2
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57b Brewer St London W1F
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***PICCADILLY RECORDS***
53 Oldham Street, Manchester, M1 1JR
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Haillng from the New Cross bedsit scene looking like a couple of gangsters from the depression era, Congregation have lately been injecting the Blues and R&B genre with a heavy dose of class and soul.
Benjamin Prosser (Slide Guitar, Bass drum) and Victoria Yeulet (vocals, leg bells) play the kind of raw, slinky and seductive blues that have the power to restore one's faith in the genre. I know because they did it for me.
On record and on stage Prosser is a dark presence, wavering in the background, playing slide riffs and thumping a bass drum with his foot. Victoria wails away with a voice that never fails to chill. This is a voice that manages to conjure up all of her fallen sisters in arms back from the dead (or used record bins), yet it's still very much her own. The overall effect of these two's music is moving in a way that is both remorseful and joyful at the same time. They are so deep that it would hurt if you could stop smiling at the beauty of it all. English White Boy R&B has a lot to answer for and these two are going a long way to re-dressing the issue. My new favorite band.
(Ben Swank)
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'DON'T PAY NO MIND' - FILM BY DAN HIGGINS

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Music:

Member Since: 8/21/2006
Band Members: Victoria Yeulet -
Vocals and Percussion

Benjamin Prosser -
Guitar and Percussion

Influences: bertha lee, son house, darrell rhodes, gories, benjo zeppa, bettye lavette, sandy sheldon, susan king, tarheel slim & lil’ anne, bukka white, lizzie douglas, sara and maybelle, ruby glaze, the husbands, loretta, jean shepard, she, wanda jackson, doris duke, vera ward hall, cleoma breaux, billy lee riley, ronnie spector,danny zella, washington phillips, stovepipe no.1, william & versey smith, barbara lewis, the shaggs, fred & gertrude gossett, tenneva ramblers, blind joe taggart, staple singers, june carter, chuck berry, mattie delaney, holly golightly, margaret lewis, bo diddley

Record Label: Velo, Bronzerat
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

hear a preview of an album track on mojo magazines website

the mojo blues and soul compilation featured recently was too short to feature everything they wanted so they have featured us on their website! you can listen to one of our album tracks for another c...
Posted by CONGREGATION on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:11:00 PST