and The Last Tribe (has included the following musicians):
Dick Heckstall-Smith: Saxophones
Zion Train: Additional Programming/ Keyboards
Omar Puente: Violin
Williams Cumberbache: Percussion
Isabelle Traclet: Chanteuse
Molara: Vocals
Mike Willox: Piano/ Keyboards
Count Dubulah: Bass
Tshaka Tutankhamun: Vocals
Kid Ouzo: Piano
Fidel Flynn: Claves/ Guiro
Terry Neale: Drums/ Percussion/ Melodica
Riccardo Mulhall: Keyboards/ Bass
Sir John Brennard: Cabassa/ Libations/ Marshall of the Skies and Lanes of England and their retinue
Influences:
Slim Gaillard/ Ginger Baker/ Paul Gauguin/ Augustus Pablo/ Nicholas Ray/ Sabu Martinez/ John Martyn/ Wifredo Lam/ King Tubby/ Albert Camus/ Gasper Lawal/ Jayne Cortez/ Mongo Santamaria/ Mad Professor/ Art Blakey/ Luis Bunuel/ Machito/ Peter Beard/ Sly and Robbie/ Jeff Nuttall/ Mexico/ Thelonious Monk/ Dillinger/ Mimmo Paladino/ Brian Eno/ Art Pepper/ Peter Lorre/ Jackson Pollock/ Charles Mingus/ Boris Karloff/ Donald Cammell/ The Congos/ Yukio Mishima/ The Stranglers/ TS Eliot/ Arthur Lee & Love/ Cuba/ Errol Flynn/ Africa/ Octavio Paz/ Betty Page/ Lee Perry/ Joan Miro/ Jackie Mitoo/ Dick Heckstall Smith/ Reebop Kwakhu Baah/ Ray Milland/ Art Blakey/ David Smith/ Cannonball Adderley/ John Berryman/ Orson Welles/ Elvin Jones /Tony Hancock/ Peter Ackroyd/ Dennis Brown/ Mustapha Tattey Addey/ Paul Bowles/ The Last Poets/ Francis Bacon/ Miles Davis/ Czeslaw Milosz/ Wayne Shorter/ Ray Barretto/ Nic Roeg/ Bela Lugosi/ Danny Thompson/ Scientist/ John Berryman/ John Carradine/ Mad Professor/ Fela Kuti/ Tommy Chase/ Doudou N'Diaye Rose/ Leon Thomas/ Tony Oxley/ Linton Kwesi Johnson/ Hossam Ramzy/ Joseph Conrad/ Santo-El Enmascarado Del Plato
Neil Sparkes, Renaissance dubster, poet and painter does not stop moving.
His restless journey started the moment he found himself onstage poeticising over the dub alongside Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jalal and Jean Binta Breeze. Since then there's been Real World Recording Weeks, Transglobal Underground, the Temple of Sound project, solo albums like the resplendent Cuban dub vision of 'Burning Mask'....and that's not even most of it." - Max Reinhardt, Straight No Chaser Neil Sparkes is a musician, producer, visual artist and poet whose work resonates through both artistic and popular cultural worlds. Neil is co-writer of tracks with Peter Gabriel including "Burn You Up, Burn You Down" on the huge selling album "Hit". Sparkes has also produced/written for Natacha Atlas, Los de Abajo, Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali and Batucada Sound Machine and done remixes for Jah Wobble, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Banco De Gaia, and Jah Wobble, Claude Challe and the Fatback Band.
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Neil Sparkes(composer, vocalist, percussionist and producer) latest project is Loungeclash with Sam Dodson (Loop Guru/ Slipper/ Transmitters). Loungeclash debut album "Dread Time Story" (Warlock Records) is released in the USA on Feb 19th 2008.
Neil Sparkes produced the debut album "Rhythm And Rhyme" by Batucada Sound Machine at The Lab Studios in Auckland,New Zealand in July 2007; the amazing group made a huge impact at WOMAD festivals last year.
Neil will be returning to the UK and MCing at this years WOMAD Festival at Charlton Park in Wiltshire.
Neil Sparkes worked in Mexico City in 2006 producing the debut album by new Mexican artist Fero with Fernando De Santiago, legendary Mariachi producer and arranger for Pepe Aguilar.
Neil Sparkes is widely known as vocalist and percussionist with Indie dance group Transglobal Underground with whom he toured the World from 1992 to 1996. He appeared on all of TGU's commercially successful albums for Nation Records and Sony.
Neil's collaborations include work with Peter Gabriel as co-writer on his single "Burn You Up,Burn You Down" on the massive selling Best Of album "Hit". Neil first worked with Peter Gabriel in 1991 at the inaugral Real World Recording Week, held at Gabriel's recording studio's in Wiltshire, UK.
Sparkes has worked with Peter Gabriel, The Stranglers, Jah Wobble, Natacha Atlas, Los De Abajo, Batucada Sound Machine, Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali, Omar Puente, Fernando De Santiago, Fero, Simon Emmerson (Afro-Celt), Little Annie, Billy Childish, Loop Guru, Slipper, Zion Train, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jeff Nuttall, Michael Horovitz, Pete Brown, Alan Barnes, Hossam Ramzy, Shooglenifty, Dodgy and Adrian Sherwood amongst many others.
Neil Sparkes first solo release was the "Achtung Salaam!" EP, released by 2KOOL Records in 1996 while Sparkes was still a member of TransGlobal Underground. Released as a Ltd edition collectors item Picture Disc featuring Neil's paintings and images, this was the first of a series of three 12" Dub plates:
Neil's debut solo album "Burning Mask" was released to wide acclaim ("A Musical Education" 5/5 - Pathaan, DJ Magazine) by Interchill Records. Recorded between extended visits to Cuba, where Sparkes lived for 6 months, returning regularly throughout the late 1990's; the album's release was followed by a British Council sponsored tour in Canada in 1999. Live shows in the UK featured UK saxophone Legend Dick Heckstall-Smith and Cuban Violinist Omar Puente (including BBC Music Live event on the South Bank, London). Other Interchill releases include remixes of Ekko on the Ekkocentric album; "Miramar" on the Chill Out album "Floatation"; "Talisman(Dub Praises Mix)" on the album "Talisman" which features Neil's paintings commissioned by Interchill.
Neil's ten year collaboration with legendary saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith is featured on the CD and book "Grandchildren of Albion" (New Departures). The duo's performances together from 1991 to 2001 include Ronnie Scott's,London; Literary and Music Festivals throughout Europe and the UK.
Temple of Sound are releasing their fifth studio album "GlobalHead" on May 8th 2007 on Namaste Records/Koch in the USA;
A long term preoccupation with synthesising his multi-medic talents led to the formation of Neil's latest group Temple Of Sound with Count Dubulah. Temple of Sounds debut album "First Edition" was released by Wagram Music in 2002. "First Edition" contains twelve tracks written and produced by Sparkes and Dubulah. Sparkes also providing the painting and original artwork that graces the cover and inside booklet.
As producers and remixers, Temple of Sound have made the album "Peoples Colony No.1" for Peter Gabriel's label Real World, with Rizwan Muazzam Qawwali (nephews of the late great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) in 2001 and "Shout At The Devil", an album co-written and produced with Jah Wobble for 30 Hertz Records in 2002. In 2005 Temple of Sound produced the album "LDA v The Lunatics" by Los De Abajo in Mexico City at the studios of grammy award winner Pepe Aguilar. The album is released on Peter Gabriel's Real World label. 2006 saw the release of Natacha Atlas new album "MishMaoul" on Beggars Banquet featuring tracks produced, performed and co-written by Neil Sparkes and Count Dubulah. The album was nominated in the BBC radio3 World Music Awards.
As a poet and performer, Sparkes has read and performed widely in the UK ,Europe and Internationally; as well as alongside Michael Horovitz and Jeff Nuttall in the The Jazz Poetry SuperJam and Billy Childish's Hangman Poets. His work includes several collections of poetry published by Billy Childish, "All Metal And Other Mens Wives" (1989), "Rumba Rumba (Jazz From Hell)" (1990), as well as numerous appearances on BBC Radio.Magazines and anthologies include "Velocity" (Black Spring 2003); "Gargoyle" (Black Spring1999 ); Critical Quarterly" (1996); Grandchildren of Albion" (New Departures1992); Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry" (Apples & Snakes 1992), and the Hungarian/British collection "Fragile Continent" (Princes Trust 1991). A new collection "Drums In The Rain (New and Selected Poems & Drawings 1990 - 2005)" is to be published by Billy Childish's Hangman Books .
Sparkes studied on the Foundation course at Maidstone, K.I.A.D. and then the B.A. Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College, London. A contemporary of Damien Hirst and the YBAs, his work has been exhibited in the UK and abroad. Neil's pictures have been sold to many Private Collections.
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The 2009 Dreamtime Festival, July 16-20th, includes four full days of amazing performances on four stages, hundreds of cutting edge workshops, interactive theme camps and art installations, free camping and parking.
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- Over 18 theme camps, including a healing village offering free massage
- Art installations including a solar full size crashed flying saucer stage and sound system.
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