Member Since: 06/06/2006
Band Website: http://www.simpkinproject.com
Band Members: PHIL SIMPKIN - Lead Vocals & Lead Guitar
SHAWN TAYLOR - Keyboards & Vocals
MARK THOMPSON - Organ & synth
SEAN KENNEDY - Drums
SERGIO SANDOVAL - Percussion
PASQUALE DEROSA - Bass
RALPH ARENAS - Rhythm Guitar & Vocals
CONTACT INFO:
BOOKING: Attn: Sean Kennedy
EMAIL: [email protected]
CALL 24hrs. 714-651-2836
PUBLICITY: Attn: Shawn Taylor
EMAIL: [email protected]
CALL 24hrs. 714-955-1481
BAND EMAIL: [email protected]
Official Simpkin Project Website
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IN THE WAKE
This new work is a giant progression from our first album both in our recording and song writing skills; besides being some four years apart. When we decided to create a second record we embraced a "cut no corners" state-of-mind and went to every length to make sure that our album was done right. In order to achieve that sound, we found it necessary to record using only vintage analog preamps, compressors, EQ's, microphones, real acoustic pianos, vintage Fender Rhodes E. pianos, Hammond organs with leslies, classic essential guitars and eclectic percussion instruments. This however was also combined with modern recording techniques and editing to form a unique synthesis of both the new and old school approaches. Our main objective in using the modern digital medium was to enhance the traditional, more analog sound that is rightfully the sound of roots music. Our inspiration is strictly the reggae music created in Jamaica and England, produced during the 1970's and 1980's, which has inevitably blended with all other musical backgrounds which move and inspire us as musicians and music fans today.
WALK ON TALL
Back in the summer of 2003 Phil Simpkin, Shawn Taylor and a handful of close musical colleagues got together in a recording studio and collaborated their musical talents in the hope to create a unique reggae album. Sweating away in the control room they worked from the end of summer all the way into that following October. The result, six original songs and four dub re-mixes. Once mixed and mastered it sadly was never released. Only 500 or so copies of the album in its full length actually got handed out. But despite all that, Phil's music managed to radiate out into the world and began to work itself into various circles of listeners and had astounded every ear it came in contact with. It is an extremely rare thing when you have a record with songs that are so good that when you play it, no matter who listens to it, loves it from the very first note all the way to the very last. With a brand new sound and deep message that the entire world can come together under, Walk on Tall is The Simpkin Project’s debut album featuring the songs “Walk On Tallâ€, “sad Songâ€, “Pyakaâ€, and “Pick It Up There†just to name a few. Recorded at Hughes Drive Studios in Huntington Beach, and release in 2007, Walk on Tall remains to be something very different from the typical "roots reggae" of the past, yet it’s sole influence is only the classic reggae music from the past. The songs include a synthesis of various traditional reggae styles including: pulse, Ska, one drop and dub combined with both up-tempo and slow-tempo dynamics, which leaves each listener with the melodies and songs stuck forever in their heads.
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