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MAMMA FREEDOM

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About Me


Likened to a split personality, they knock you out with one hand while picking you up with the other, like watching a storm flatten a building, with anger and fury one minute, then seeing the sun break through the next. From chaotic to calm in the beat of a drum. A lethal combination of heavy, moody, hard driven, beat laden funk rock and hip-hop and soaring, warming, uplifting soul with raunchy blues.
Mix in a heavy Sly and the family stone 70’s funk influence, Zeppelin / Black Crowes Style drive, soaring cinematic strings and powerful harmonies weaved together by Producer Alexander Johnston using his unique production styles and wall of sound and delivered by Singer/brother J, whose gravel driven, velvet tinged, soul soaked voice scales effortlessly through the range of life’s emotions. They are selling out venues, playing to capacity crowds and sending them home happy with a tight, explosive live show and have gained the reputation globally as one of the best new bands around. Managed by Charles Carlini and In Touch Entertainment in New York whose artists include world famous oscar winning composer Ennio Morricone, Eumir Deodato and Keith Emerson, they have set up a base there and in the last 18 months the band took Hollywood by storm with US Record company meetings and possible Film scores being discussed.
Already and influence on their peers and having Hollywood actors and film producers as fans, averaging 200 plays a day on Myspace, over 20,000 in 5 months and having to tour the UK and US fully to satisfy demand.
Mamma Freedom are already drawing rave reviews and have a fan base worldwide due to the success of mammafreedom.com. Mamma Freedom will be touring 2008 .
"Superb 7 strong Mancunian Funk/Rock task force" - Bristol Metro
"Genuinely thrilling" - Manchester Metro
"Most of you already know who these are" - Paul O’Brien Manchester Online
"Brilliant!" - Manchester Evening News
"The hardest working band around" - City Life
"Those boys are amazing! I listen to them all the time" - Diora Baird Hollywood actress and Playboy 2005 playmate
"These boys are monsters, hugely talented" - James McCeachin Actor, Writer and discoverer of Otis Redding
"7 Piece Orchestra!" - Daddy Fresh Music
"One of the best bands in the country" - Pulse rated
"WOW! Fantastic" - City Beat Radio
"Brilliant! I absolutley love it!" - Clint Boon XFM
"A Hurricane of a band, We’ve never been so excited about a band" - PRS -MCPS
"They could be as big as anyone ever!" - Tom Fletcher Engineer Toto, Don Henley, Ozzy Osbourne
Contact:
Worldwide Management
Charles Carlini
In Touch Entertainment
445 Park Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
US Call:
(212) 714 7722 vox
(212) 202 7579 fax
UK Call:
(+44) 020 7084 6330
US Mobile:
001 9174064045
www.intouchhome.com
[email protected]
Music
Alexander Johnston (Executive Producer and head of CMI)
CMI Music Group
The Voodoo Suite Studio
Suite 12
New Islington Mill
Regent trading estate
Oldfield Road
Manchester
M5 4DE
00 44 (0)161 834 3434
00 44 07740 361-376
www.cmimusicgroup.com
[email protected]
www.mammafreedom.com
[email protected]
www.myspace.com/mammafreedom
www.thevoodoosuite.com
[email protected]
Lawrence Ayers
CMI USA
Hollywood
CA
00 1 818 605 8713
[email protected]
View Mamma Freedom’s EPK

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/4/2006
Band Website: mammafreedom.com
Band Members:J.Johnston - (Vocals, Guitar) Alexander Johnston - (Producer, Keys, Drums, vox) Doc Calcott - (Lead Guitar, Vox) Dickie Redfern - (Keys, Vox) Gareth Bourne - (Bass, Trumpet) Bob Marsh - (Trumpet, Flugel Horn, Cornet) Bruce Hunnisett (Tenor, soprano Sax, Flute)
Influences: Sly and The Family Stone, Bill withers, The black crowes, Lalo Schifrin, John Barry, A Tribe Called Quest, Pearl Jam, jurassic 5, Led Zeppelin, Quincy Jones, 70's funk and soul, Brian Wilson, Ennio Morricone, The Dave Matthews Band, INXS, sheryl crow, The Doobie Brothers, Rare Earth, hip hop, rock, funky house, Michael Macdonald, Michael Jackson, The Doors, jazz, Thomas Newman, John Williams (composer), Eumir Deodato, Wu-Tang, Method Man, Peter Gabriel, zero 7, Aretha Franklin, Fun Lovin Criminals, Ray Charles, Harry Connick jnr, Stevie Wonder, Jane's Addiction
Sounds Like:
Mamma Freedom
Record Label: TBA
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Blog Number 1: From the Studio

Hi to all out there! I have to be honest; this is the first blog I’ve ever written. I wasn’t entirely sure what a blog was. It was one of those words I kept hearing. Anyway...Here it is. ...
Posted by MAMMA FREEDOM on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:23:00 PST

Latest News

Latest Mamma Freedom NewsDebut Album Preachers and Criminals is in its final mixing stages and is around 2 weeks away from completion. Several tracks are finished and the first 2 tracks to be aired on...
Posted by MAMMA FREEDOM on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:09:00 PST

Mamma Freedom 2008

Mamma Freedom Newsletter Jan 2008Happy New Year to All from Mamma Freedom, CMI Music Group, The Carlini Group and The Voodoo Suite Studios.Mamma Freedom are currently putting the finishing touches to ...
Posted by MAMMA FREEDOM on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:47:00 PST

Academy 3 sell out

Mamma Freedom sell out Manchesters Academy 3. Over 400 people witnessed a blistering end of tour set  by the band. New songs debuted included 'Preacherman' and 'Sing for redemption' a song which...
Posted by MAMMA FREEDOM on Sun, 03 Dec 2006 07:51:00 PST

Mamma Freedom Myspace virus meltdown and Latest news

Latest NewsPLEASE NOTE* MAMMA FREEDOM MYSPACE PAGE DOWN DUE TO A VIRUS* PLEASE NOTE*The Mamma Freedom Myspace page had been hit with some sort of virus and had been scrambled. Unfortunately all our 80...
Posted by MAMMA FREEDOM on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:26:00 PST