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Kokopelli

About Me

Kokopelli are an acoustic trio from Brighton and Hastings, in the UK, playing their own brand of "damn groovy" folk.

The tracks you are listening to : ) are from Kokopelli's ep and debut album

Growing Tales, The Field and Forest Leaves are the three tracks on the brand new ep.

Tracks from Kokopelli's debut album have found their way on to:Radio Reverb - Brighton local radio 97.2 FM
Southern Counties Radio - South Live - "Kokopelli groove..." the demo panel
Virtual Open Mic - a different kind of internet radio playing grass roots music songwriters, singers and guitars.
Folking.com - "Let's Go Out" in Folking.com's 'MP3 of the Month' download section.
Terra Pura - Portuguese radio station cronicasdaterra.com
The Acoustic Stage - Internet radio station www.theacousticstage.net (album of the week...twice : ))
Jeff Hemmings show on Brighton's Juice 107.2FM www.juicebrighton.com (live radio session)
Darius Akashic's show, "Union City", for Brighton's Juice 107.2FM www.juicebrighton.com (live radio session)
DJ Lamp's show 'The Eclectic Chair' for Skywave Radio 103.9FM (live radio session)
"The Road" and "The Account" have been featured on the play lists of Danny Garlick's show for internet radio station, Sypda Radio.
"Start Talking" was in the Top 10 of Ragtime's UK Unsigned Music Chart for 12 weeks www.ragtime.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/25/2005
Band Members: Kokopelli are multi-instrumentalists: Ian Roland (vocals, 12 string guitar, mandolin); Darren Eve (vocals, classical guitar, flute, harmonica, wurlitzer, percussion); Maria Marzaioli (violin, vocals, percussion)
Influences: Waterboys, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Burt Bacharach, Chavez, Neil Young, Kinks, Captain Beefheart, Joni Mitchell, Nino de Granada and his Flamenco Troupe, Twilight Singers, Aphex Twin, Dragon Dautovshi Quartet, REM, Dirty Three, Seth Lakeman, Martin Carthy, Mogwai, Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel, Girls Against Boys, Afghan Whigs, Kate Bush, Radiohead, New Wet Kojak, Jaga Jazzist, Gorecki, Arvo Part, Steve Reich, Foo Fighters, Bloc Party, Neapolitan Songs, Beck, Bonnie Prince Billy, British Sea Power, Death Cab for Cutie, Laurie Anderson, Ani Di Franco, The Magic Numbers, Sigur Ros, Squarepusher, Ojos de Brujo, Deus, Jeff Buckley...
Sounds Like:

"Good stuff!! Pushing boundaries, envelopes, call it what you want but there's fire here with a good rootsy feel - power to their collective elbows" Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2

"Warm, touching and heartfelt... an earthy feel which at times provoked goosebumps. A winner I'd say." Three Weeks , Brighton Festival Fringe 2006

"Acoustic guitars, mandolin, violin and fine vocal performances from all three members give the songs bite. The opening three tracks well and truly blew me away..." Philip Daniels, Folking.com


Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Music & Visions of Peace concert - 23rd Dec 2006

Kokopelli will be playing at the "Music & Visions of Peace"  Healthy Concert on Saturday 23rd December 2006 at the Friend's Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, East Sussex ,UK from 7pm...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:42:00 GMT

New tracks from Kokopelli's debut album

Kokopelli's profile now has three tracks from the band's debut album, which is available from the website of their home-grown label, Different Planet Music, www.differentplanet.bizWhat's bee...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:47:00 GMT