Mim Suleiman - vocals and percussion
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Influences
Music from all over the world. Music from the East, West, North and South. The list is endless!
Bi Kidude - Zanzibar,
Siti bint Saad- Zanzibar,
Bob Marley- Jamaica,
Miraim Makeba-South Africa,
Umu kulthum- Egypt,
Tina Turner-America,
Shelly Bassy- S Wales,
Papa wemba - Republic of Congo,
Mozzart -
Beats, rythms, and vibrant patterns are the key!!!!!!!
Sounds Like
Mim Suleiman wih everything she has ever been exposed to. mmmmmmmm.......
Mim Suleiman started hearing stream of voices, rythm and poetry
coming out her being while working as a teaching metallurgical technician at The University of Birmingham.
With no musical background whats so ever, Mim Suleiman left her job to pursue her dream.
Zanzibar (Tanzania) born singer songwriter performer Mim Suleiman's eclectic soulful being revels in her East African vocals and percussion traditions. She has been described as a fiery singer who never fails to indulge her audience!
She is a versitile vocalist and vibrant performer.
"Think of Miriam Makeba, meets Aretha Franklin........Mim show's stopping performace is already the talk of the town" (Dave Jarvis.)
''Soulful, soaring, deep, and divine, Mim's presence and music is a blessing'' (mpenzi)
She is a recorded artist and has played from Asia to Europe. Her music ranges form soul, blues, funk, house, jazz, rock and dance tracks, to her African heritage.
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She writes in English and Swahili (her native tongue) and sings in a variety of languages including Fula.
She is currently working hard to complete her first album, as well as a collaberation project with Rafiki Jazz, samples of which can be heard on this site.
She is also a band member of Sheffield's own BARE KNUCKLE SOUL, who have performed on MTV, enjoy great support from BBC Radio 1's Ras Kwame and Trevor Nelson.
Mim Suleiman’s love and enthusiasm for the melodies and rhythms she shares in her workshops make your heart rise up and your vocal chords join in before you’re even aware of it. She sings out lines for us to mimic and throws out sarongs so we can tie them to our hips and bop to her bouncy East African grooves. “Exactly!” she says after we attempt to wind our tongues around the complicated sounds coming from her smiley mouth “As long as it sounds…like it anyway,” and we know that whatever it is that we’re actually singing, we’re still enjoying it as much as she is.
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you can bring water and feed me money...
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...
"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…
It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…
This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!
"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)
Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!
"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store
The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers
I'm proud to give you "Heavy In The Beats Vol. 1 - A Different Drum", the first installment in my FREE mixtape series dedicated to drums and percussion. "Volume 1" focuses on the avant garde side of the instrument, and features pieces from Billy Martin (of Medeski Martin & Wood), myself, and others!
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Hello love! little robots are playing: PISCO PRESENTS THE SUMMER FETE. 19:30 Fri 21st Aug @ The Grapes, Trippet Lane, Sheffield. Featuring: THE DIRTY RATS, LITTLE ROBOTS and PISCO SOUR HOUR. Come for an earfull if not the free baked goods and tombola!! YEAH! love, LR X
