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SAVANA STATION

Groovin' Skankin' Play that funky shit!

About Me

Savana Station was formed in 2002 and plays a mixture of reggae, soul, latin and funk.. The 9-headed band had allready a lot of air-play on Belgian national radio channels and performed on Belgium 's most beautiful stages as there are the Ancienne Belgique (as supportact for Horace Andy and later on Sergento Garcia), Handelsbeurs, Vooruit, Petrol, Sfinksfestival, Pole Pole and many others.... Savana Station released 1 album called 'Clash' on Evil Penguin Records and just released a second album on Lc Music: 'The hubbub of city streets', with contributions of Rudeboy (Urban Dance Squad), Roy Paci (Legendary Sicilian trumpetplayer), Lize Accoe and Emma Louisa Silva (new discovery!)... Single "Mind The Frequency" made it to the nr.4 position of Belgian Magazine HUMO's top 20 and the videoclip of "Bairo Alto" made it to the number 1 spot of JIM-TV's "Dit is Belgisch". The musicians of savana all have their own projects. Philippo Fierens is active in the European dance-scene (Releases on Sonar Collective, Jalapeno-records, Chez records., etc..)David van Belleghem (drums) is one of the foundators of DE LA VEGA that has his roots with Looplizzard, a band that recorded a record with Dub-wizz Adrien Sherwood in the 90's, Jo Hermans (trumpet) plays with DAAN and many others, Vincent Brijs (Saxophone) has his own Antwerp-based jazz/hyper-funk band BRAZZAVILLE (winners 2007 Blue Note-competition) and is very active in the Antwerp Jazz-scene, Andres Fuentealba (bass) is a reggae/dub/oldscool funk'n soul dj, Eduardo Vega(guitar) has his own jazz-quartet and is also active with Belgian ska-band PROJECTO SECRETO, Gabriel Valeria (percussion) played with several Belgian latin-groups such as EL TATTOO DEL TIGRE, Pieter Lamotte (trombone) played with dozens of bands such as FLAT EARTH SOCIETY and RAYMOND VAN HET GROENEWOUD and even went on tour with, believe it or not...DEEP PURPLE...Lost but not least: Michiel De Malsche (keys) is active as classical and film/theatre-composer.. Bringin all these crazy guys together resulted in SAVANA STATION, a multicultural musical project created to spread some positive vibes and to get you on the dance-floor!! CHECK IT OUT!!
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Member Since: 11/11/2006
Band Website: savanastation.com
Band Members: Phillipo Fierens: Lead-vocal______ Jo Hermans: Trumpet/backing-vocals________ Vincent Brijs: Bariton-sax______ Pieter Lamotte: Trombone______ Andres Fuentealba Palavicino: Bas_____ Michiel De Malsche: Keys_____ David van Belleghem: Drums_____ Eduardo Vega: Guitar_____ Gabriël: Percussion
Influences: Sergent Garcia, Horace Andy, James Brown, Urban Dance Squad, Mano Negra, 70's soul and funk, jazz, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Lee scrach perry, Fela Kuti, Ruben Blades...
Sounds Like: savana station
Record Label: LC-MUSIC
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"BAIRO ALTO": NEW VIDEOCLIP BY BART STOLLE

CHECK IT ON OUR PROFILE...   www.stolle.be         ;          (very talented guy!)...
Posted by SAVANA STATION on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:31:00 PST

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO OF OUR AB-CONCERT

Go to http://www.abconcerts.be/ and click on the link AB-tv, then search savana station... Hope you enjoy it..
Posted by SAVANA STATION on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

NEW CD NOW IN THE SHOPS

FOR ABOUT 15 EURO'S YOU CAN NOW BUY OUR CD IN MOST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BEGIAN MUSICSTORES (I KNOW IT'S STILL NOT CHEAP... BUT IT'S ALSO NOT CHEAP TO MAKE A CD... ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE TO ...
Posted by SAVANA STATION on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:17:00 PST

NEW SITE! CHECK OUT www.savanastation.com

www.savanastation.com    new songs en info
Posted by SAVANA STATION on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 02:43:00 PST

WHO'S SAVANA STATION?

Philippo Fierens: Singer.. worked with D'Stephanie, Jo Franken, Dedos, Kbonus, Iscream and many others... released a single "Future Warrior" on Sonar Collective... the label of Jazzanova...Andres Fuen...
Posted by SAVANA STATION on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 09:13:00 PST