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Ara

Mmmm....Jazz and Hip Hop......

About Me

My name is Ara Adams-Tamatea and Im a Musician/Producer from Aotearoa NZ. I use to play bass in a band called Katchafire and left in April 2007 to persue other music ventures. At the moment I am producing my own beats and collaborating with like minded singers/musicians into jazz'n'soul breaks, over hip hop/downtempo beats. If you are a vocalist, MC, or Jazz Instrumentalist looking to collab please message me and we can suss it. Pace and Love.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/5/2007
Band Members: Ara Adams-Tamatea
Influences: All music with Soul - Dad and Uncles, NZ Music, A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, Eagles, The Roots, Doobies, Little River Band, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, Brand New Heavies, Average White Band, Tower of Power, Rose Royce, Incognito, Angie Stone, Erykah Badu, Leela James, Maxwell, D'Angelo, Eric Benet, Earth Wind and Fire, Musiq Soulchild, The Isley Brothers, The Josh Owen Band. Producers such as Shaheed Muhommod, 8th Wonder, Dilla, GZA, RZA, Kanye, The Roots, Dr Dre, Jeremy Toy, Te Omeka Perkins, Mu, Recloose, etc...
Sounds Like: ...sweaty butt crack on a hot day....
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Music

JAM 4Found some nice Jazz cuts and laid some live bass underneath - trying to make it bit more funky than chilled.  JAM 3Another dose of Heavy Rimshot, Double Bass, and all that Jazz over the top...
Posted by Ara on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:46:00 PST