Music:
Member Since: 16/11/2005
Band Website: www.jerichobeach.com
Band Members: ARTISTS
Ndidi Onukwulu
On her debut No, I Never, Ndidi Onukwulu proved she can wrap her silky voice around anything from country blues to her own rootsy salon sound. Now we have The Contradictor, all about focus, training that formidable silk edge on everyone's private pain, and contradicting the anguish with a full, upbeat, resonance.
The Contradictor is personal and universal, built on Ndidi's songwriting mining the extremes of intimacy, with the bigger sounds and tones she is most interested in uncovering. These are songs of heartache, heartbreak, and longing. 'Not nice,' as she says, but as full as these can be. And as rich.
Artist: Ndidi Onukwulu
Title: The Contradictor [2008]
ESL
E.S.L. are a band of gypsies, performing uniquely orchestrated songs inspired by everything from polish cabaret to Neil Young to the Beastie Boys and Velvet Underground, to name a few. The group combines a playful songwriting style with the incredible chops and melodies to keep the music unique and interesting, both for themselves and their listeners.
Artist: e.s.l.
Title: Eye Contact [2008]
Girl Nobody
Vancouver’s Girl Nobody formed in 1999 and has since become one of the few bands that can offer cerebral charm and sexual bravado within a lullaby of pop swoon, all the while continually stretching musical parameters. The band’s innovative song-writing offers fresh variations on the classic structures of pop songs, ballads and dance numbers.
Artist: Girl Nobody
Title: Balaclava Casino Heist [2007]
Kim Barlow
Kim Barlow is a leaf set in stone: jagged as a Yukon horizon; tender as spring. Her songs are wry and impassioned, deft distillations of the beautiful and absurd world she inhabits. Playing guitar, banjo, and cello, the Juno Award nominee uses her training as a classical musician to create complex and unexpected settings for her fables of lost children, plaints of lust, and songs of protest.
Artist: Kim Barlow
Title: Champ [2007]
Geoff Berner
"I want to drag klezmer music kicking and screaming back into the bars." That's the goal of Vancouver singer-songwriter-accordion player Geoff Berner. It would be tempting to paint Berner as a kind of klezmer rebel, but he maintains that he is working firmly in the true tradition. "When we went to Romania, we found musicians who are masterful, but can also play so loud and passionately that pitch and meter don't matter. And the words in the songs are full of drinking, politics and sex. That's my kind of tradition."
Artist: Geoff Berner
Title: The Wedding Dance of the Widow Bride [2007]
James Keelaghan
James Keelaghan is an international folk music treasure - known for finely crafted songs of intimacy and saga, and for a commanding stage presence. He has earned world acclaim for his song writing and performances. His most celebrated songs draw from historical accounts bringing an inspired discovery of people and places in another time. His accounts of personal journeys are remarkable too - tender and unflinching.
Artist: James Keelaghan
Title: A Few Simple Verses [2006]
Title: Then Again [2004]
Title: Home [2001]
Title: Road [1999]
The Wailin' Jennys
Nicky Mehta, and Ruth Moody and Heather Masse are singer songwriter alchemy. They combine their individual talents into a rare musical mix that is enchanting and powerful. They unite classic and contemporary folk, and then add alt pop, Celtic, and country, for an earthy urban folk sound marked by spine-tingling 3-part harmonies.
Artist: The Wailin' Jennys
Title: Firecracker [2006]
Title: 40 Days [2004]
Lache Cercel and the Roma Swing Ensemble
Lache Cercel comes to Canada from Romania. He calls his fusion Roma Jazz or Roma Swing. In the tradition of Django Reinhardt and Stephen Grappelli, Cercel lays classical and improvisational jazz alongside traditional renderings, which makes for a phenomenal sound.
Artist: Lache Cercel and the Roma Swing Ensemble
Title: Muzika Konkordo [2006]
Ndidi Onukwulu
Singer and songwriter Ndidi Onukwulu (pron. In-DEE-dee On-OOK-whoo-loo) is a newcomer to blues scene in Toronto, Canada. She is building a repertoire of traditional blues, combined with Malagasy and Nigerian music. “It’s a new form of African bluesâ€, she says. Ndidi is an eclectic performer with a bright future ahead of her.
Artist: Ndidi Onukwulu
Title: No, I Never [2006]
Tagaq
In just six short years the ground-breaking Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq Gillis, has brought an ancient Inuit vocal game to the heights of the experimental music scene. She’s collaborated with Bjork and the Kronos Quartet, and toured with some of the world’s leading global artists.
Artist: Tagaq
Title: Sinaa [2006]
DiggingRoots
DiggingRoots possess a self-described style of 'Odeimin Music' or heartbeat music that pulls the rhythm of this land base into a bold, moving, and at times, defiantly honest voice. A history lesson has never been this stirring, and uplifting. Clearly these two are making their mark as up and coming innovative artists.
Artist: DiggingRoots
Title: Seeds [2006]
Alpha Yaya Diallo
Alpha Yaya Diallo a composer, band leader and extraordinary guitarist originally from Guinea, West Africa. He delivers electrified Griot songs of the Manding with all their sputtering rhythmic intricacies to the sunny lilt of Congolese Soukous. A powerful mix of voice, guitars and percussion.
Artist: Alpha Yaya Diallo
Title: Djama [2005]
Title: The Journey [2001]
David Francey
In just 4 years David Francey has become one of Canada's top folk artists. He has received the Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) in the Best Roots and Traditional Album - Solo category for both his second CD, 'Far End of Summer', and his third, 'Skating Rink'. David has won the hearts of audiences across North America. We look forward to his new Jericho Beach release.
Artist: David Francey
Title: The Waking Hour [2004]
Martyn Joseph
Martyn Joseph's 20 year career has embraced some notable achievements including 5 Top 40 UK chart positions. His first studio album since 1999 is now available. This album's lyrical integrity and insight coupled with his trademark, passionate melodies have produced a musical collection that some industry insiders are applauding as Martyn's finest album so far.
Artist: Martyn Joseph
Title: Whoever it was that brought me here will have to take me home [2004]
Po'Girl
Co-conspirators Trish Klein, Allison Russell and Diona Davies deliver soulful roots, jazz, and country grooves with all the grit and spirit of the old-time sound through their beguiling original songs and distinctive adaptations of traditionals. They are urban minstrels for the twenty-first century.
Artist: Po’Girl
Title: Po’Girl [2003]
Leon & Eric Bibb
Leon Bibb is a well-loved pillar of Vancouver’s theatre community with an impressive international film and theatre career. His son Eric is a brilliant acoustic blues musician. Singing together they bring a relaxed warmth charged with special excitement.
Artist: Leon & Eric Bibb
Title: Family Affair [2002]
Khac Chi Ensemble
Before settling in Canada, the Khac Chi Ensemble were two of Vietnam's premiere musicians, performing concerts of exquisite beauty and virtuosity. Showcasing rare and unique musical instruments from the mountain peoples of Vietnam, interspersed with the haunting melodies of Dan Bau, a one-string zither from northern Vietnam, the Khac Chi Ensemble takes you on an adventure in sound.
Artist: Khac Chi Ensemble
Title: Spirit of Vietnam [1999]
Silk Road Music
Silk Road Music combines the traditional styles of the East with new influences picked up in the west. They play Chinese music with jazz, folk, and Irish performance techniques, and they play with musicians from other cultural backgrounds creating a new sound entirely.
Artist: Silk Road Music
Title: Endless [1998]
All releases are distributed by Festival Distribution, a national distributer of roots, folk and world music. To order on line please go to www.festival.bc.ca .
Influences: Jericho Beach Music
P.O. Box 53503
Vancouver, BC V5Z 4M6
Canada
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Sounds Like: Canadian independent music since before it was considered a genre.
Record Label: Jericho Beach Music
Type of Label: Indie
