Member Since: 24/04/2006
Band Members: linka (p'duction, arrangement, lyrics and vox) and Tristan Versailles (composition, arrangement and guitar). What a team!
We want a reliable drummer who can take the lead, a competent and imaginative percussionist and a slaptastic, deep, dirty, funky bassist!!! And a free-fingered keyboardist... All must have natural feel and good sense of rhythm and not be afraid to improvise and f*ck-up in rehearsals. If anyone's got a connection, please let us know!
"Bills", "Easy" and "Solo", written and sung by me and composed and played by Tristan in our acoustic set-up minus percussion. Same thing goes for "Lullaby". 4 of our latest tracks (as of Spring 2007). More to come...
The other recording is around 2 years old. The live version of "The Hustle" is played by co-writers Bruno Kavanagh (guitar) and Rudyard Burley (bass). They jammed the riffs while i fumbled along on the drums - ha actually i wasn't that bad - we got a nice groove together and i wrote the lyrics on the tube train on my way home! Levi Svendro played the show with us.
Tracks "Fragrance of Innocence" and "Breakdown", which you can listen to versions of on my other page (www.myspace.com/linka), feature Tristan Versailles and are part of the Solusion set. Because we don't yet have full live or acoustic recordings they are not yet on this page. Soon, though.
Get an idea.
Influences: Where to start...?
Life, politics, the music industry, poverty, nature, war, neglect, pain, JOY & love.
Musically, who knows. There's so much to be influenced by, i can't be sure who exactly made it into the pie. Perhaps Chaka Khan, Tower of Power (whoOo!), James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, The Meters, Kool & The Gang, Rufus, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, AWB, Ray Charles, Curtis Mayfield, The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, Nat King Cole, Ben E. King, George Benson, Otis Redding, Maze, Sly & The Fam., Bob Marley, Miles Davis, Sarah Vaughan, Bill Withers, Anita Baker, Eva Cassidy, Sade, Prince, India.Arie, Musiq Soulchild, The Roots, Mary J., The Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Maxwell, Eric Benet, D'Angelo and just about everyone else!
Sounds Like: No-one, we think...
Record Label: Timeless Jam
Type of Label: Indie