MP3 Eon Beats Project - About to Blow
"Brilliant, Cool and Funkilicious. Fine musicianship and a smooth blend of funky live drum beats, DJ dexterity and a luscious saxophone bring you grooves with full bodied attitude." Carl Lindgreen, Map Magazine.
12 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Acid Jazz, URBAN/R&B: Funk
Details:
"It''s all slickly executed, snappily produced and as hip as a Charles Eames chair". Richard Jinman SMH
Evelyn Duprai – Vocals
Rick Robertson – Saxophones, Flute, Vocals
Gerard Masters – Keyboards
Jon Pease - Guitar
Ian Mussington - Drums
Alexander Hewetson – Bass
Aykho Ahkrif – Percussion
Phil Slater - Trumpet
The finest in dancefloor jazz, super soulful rhythms and futuristic heavyweight funk. Featuring Rick Robertson, saxophonist from d.i.g, the very soulful vocals of Evelyn Duprai, the beats of Ian Mussington and the ever inventive keyboard wizard Gerard Masters.
From the makers of EON.
Ian Mussington Originally from London, where he worked with the likes of Lonnie Liston Smith, Cameo, Stevie Winwood, Courtney Pine, Paul Weller and Steve Williamson, drummer Ian Mussington spent the last five years in the States touring and recording with Soul Asylum. He now resides in Sydney and is laying down wicked beats with a truly international flavour.
Gerard Masters is one of the finest and most innovative young Keyboard players in the Sydney scene. In this lineup he plays keyboard bass as well as Fender Rhodes piano. Just coming off a Missy Higgins tour he’s busting to let the fresh funk fly.
Leading the band, and one of Australia’s foremost exponents of Acid Jazz and Urban Groove, Saxophonist Rick Robertson has a wealth of experience and success being one of the founding members of D.I.G and Eon. He has played all over the world at major festivals and funky clubs from New York to Berlin.
Evelyn Duprai is a true soul diva who has emerged on the scene in style bringing her amazing Aretha Franklin meets Grace Jones vocals to set the place on fire.
Eon Beats Project was formed to play the Sydney club scene and was immediately in demand with a residency at the Coogee Beach Palace, a string of album launches and finished off 2006 right at the centre of things with NYE on the Aquashell Stage at Darling Harbour.. Residencies Thursdays at the Slip Inn and Sundays at the Home Bar has really developed the band into something unique to the point of writing and recording a new album of original material featuring Evelyn Duprai on vocals and the wicked beats of Ian Mussington on Drums. Sold out gigs at the Basement in Sydney, featured spots at the Darling Harbour Jazz Festival, and the release of “Ready To Blow” on BBQ Republic Records in January 2006 means this band is steaming ahead. The EBP now regularly performs with 8 or 9 musicians onstage featuring Percussion, DJ, and Horn section. Look out summer 2007.
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Performance History:
Darling Harbour Jazz Festival 2003, 2004, 2005 Aquashell, Convention Centre Stages.
NYE Darling Harbour Celebrations 2002, 2003, 2004
The Basement, Sydney, 7 shows over the last 3 years.
St Kilda Festival (Melbourne) 2002
Vibes on a Summers Day Festival 2003 (Sydney, Perth, Melbourne)
Woollahra Hotel
Bennelong Restaurant (Sydney Opera House)
Hyde Park Main Stage (Australia Day Celebrations 2004)
Hyde Park NRMA Stage (Australia Day 2005)
Sydney Festival (Hyde Park Barracks)
Beach Road Hotel, Bondi
Beach Palace Hotel, Coogee
Brass Monkey, Cronulla
Cargo Bar, King St Wharf.
Bungalow 8, King St Wharf
The Tank Nightclub (Sydney)
Slip Inn (8 month residency)
Home Bar (8 month Residency)
Home Nightclub
Golden Sheaf, Double Bay.
Jazz in the Desert (Broken Hill)
Civic Hotel, Theatre
Coffee Festival- The Rocks, Sydney 2002, 2003, 2004.
etc
Recording History:
EON – Spin – Album: released 2000 Creative Vibes Records
EON – The Great Indoors – Album released 2002 Creative Vibes Records,
Internationally on M10Records, France 2003
Eon Beats Project – See the Light – Album 2004. Jazz Eonics, dist Creative Vibes
Eon Beats Project – About to Blow – Album. 2006 B.B.Q Republic.
Compilation Inclusions>
Private Lounge 5 – Apricot Records, France. EMI
Summer Sojourn - Instinctive Travels
Spring Sojourn – Instinctive Travels
The Quiet Hours – Creative Vibes Records
Sydney, The Sex, The City, The Music. Petrol Records
Vibes on a Summers Day 2003 Compilation.
Long Grain No.s 1 & 3
Praise for our 2006 release About to Blow .
"Damn, there''s nothing quite like an accomplished debut." 3D Magazine
"Brilliant, Cool and Funkilicious. Fine musicianship and a smooth blend of funky live drum beats,
DJ dexterity and a luscious saxophone bring you grooves with full bodied attitude." Carl Lindgreen, Map Magazine.
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