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In this episode, Brassmonkey makes a stand and leads his fellow Brazzavillians to where-ever the energy is low, to where-ever there’s a booty in need of shaking, boldly forging the funk, night after night after sweaty night. They groove, they conquer, they could be in your town tomorrow!
BRAZZAVILLE IS A 7-HEADED BAND THAT PRODUCES AN EXCITING, ADVENTUROUS AND ESPECIALLY A FUNKY SOUND! THE MUSIC IS INSPIRED BY 70'S JAZZ & FUNK, AFROBEAT & RARE GROOVES.
THEY RECORDED THEIR DEBUT ALBUM "DAYS OF THUNDER, DAYS OF GRACE" IN MARCH 2008 FEATURING FOUR SPECIAL GUESTS; MARIE DAULNE (ZAP MAMA), MO & GRAZZ & ZITA SWOON'S AMEL SERRA
THEY ARE WORKING ON THEIR SECOND ALBUM THAT WILL BE RECORDED IN MAY 2009
BRAZZAVILLE ALREADY PLAYED THE WARM-UP CONCERTS FOR ARTISTS LIKE AL JARREAU, THE NEVILLE BROTHERS & MARCUS MILLER. LAST SUMMER THEY PLAYED AT THE BIGGEST BELGIAN JAZZ FESTIVAL; GENT JAZZ FESTIVAL AND TOURED WITH JAZZLAB SERIES. IN 2007 THEY WON THE 'YOUNG JAZZ TALENT GHENT' CONTEST. ‘DAYS OF THUNDER, DAYS OF GRACE’ BEST BELGIAN JAZZ ALBUM OF 2008 ACCORDING TO THE BELGIAN NEWSPAPER, ‘LE SOIR’.
THE BAND CONSISTS OF KEYS: JAN WILLEMS (ZAP MAMA, BOOGIE BOY), GUITAR: GEERT HELLINGS (GUIDO BELCANTO, DADDY'S DARLINGS), BARITONE SAX & TURNTABLES: VINCENT BRIJS (SAVANA STATION, FABLES OF FUNGUS), TENOR SAX WITH EFFECTS: ANDREW CLAES (STIJN, GO TELL, ZIGGY ELECTRIC), ELECTRIC BASS: NICOLAS ROMBOUTS (DEZ MONA, GUIDO BELCANTO), DRUMS: MAARTEN MOESEN (BUURMAN, ALANO GRUARIN), PERCUSSION: AMEL SERRA (ZITA SWOON) AND SOUND ENGINEER: STOFFEL VERLACKT (SUKILOVE, EL TATTOO DEL TIGRE).
Imagine: You are an North-African immigrant to Spain or a South-American trying to get into US who has not much more than a few suitcases, his ability to work hard, willing to pay with slavery and to do dirty work - work that no inhabitant of the country you want to go to would even think of considering.
You already travelled a far way and left many good friends behind that you maybe never will see again.
You stumble out of the nearly falling apart bus or the smuggler boat, where you had to pay your income of a half year to that grim looking people with hearts of stone - just to take you aboard.
You are sighing gladly that you survived the travel and now take your first steps in your new home country.
And you are soon aware: You are disrespected, treated badly, your woman is seen as a kind of cheap prostitute, other people's children don't want to play with your children.
You are thinking of your former homecountry with feelings of sentimentality and you know there is no hope: you cannot go back...
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