Milo Fitzpatrick from Portico Quartet [double bass]
Pete Bennie [electric bass]
Antoine Ollivier [electric bass]
Aki Fujimoto [kit]
Kadialy Kouyate [kora]
Mikey Kirkpatrick [flute]
Camilo Tirado [percussion effects]
Yusuf Mahmoud [tabla]
Recordings, mixing, mastering by:
Camilo Tirado, Mikey Kirkpatrick, Mikko Gordon, Rick Campion
Influences
Natacha Atlas--Ravi Shankar--Shakti--Bela Fleck--Stanley Clarke--Fourtet--Susheela Raman--Joni Mitchell--Cassandra Wilson--Yann Tiersen--Ojos de brujo--Buena Vista Social Club--Miles Davis--Jaco Pastorius--Charles Mingus--Pat Metheny--Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan--Bjork--Imogen Heap--Nitin Sawhney--Skunkanansie--Herbie Hancock--Zakir Hussain--The Bad Plus--Keith Jarrett--Joanna Newsom--Mercan Dede--The Noisettes--Room of Katinas--Battles--Sigur Ros--Toumani Diabate--Sufjan Stevens--The Invisible--Terra Folk--Victor Wooten--Zap mama--Shreya Ghosal--Diamanda Galas--The Prodigy--Orbital--MIA--Polar Bear--Queens of the Stone Age
"Breathy and brilliant backed by swirling acoustic guitars Nila is an incredible talent the likes of which puts yer Nashes and yer Lily Allen's in their right place..."
GREAT ESCAPE FESTIVAL 08
"Nila's fluid voice and compositional ambition absorb a range of influences from Arabic folk and jazz traditions to contemporary chillout and Indian classical flavours. Always surprising and restless by nature, Nila's work is endlessly inventive and can shift seamlessly between genres and cultural traditions with an individuality devoid of fear or contrivance. "Wandering leaf" is at times reminiscent of Joni Mitchell or Led Zeppelin (check "Battle of Evermore") where the title track "Unattached to Desire" is forged from the technical drive of a fledgling Shakti. Through a voice overflowing with nimble agility, wistful innocence and grace, Nila's debut weaves a very appealing spell. Inspired."
NITIN SAWHNEY
"Nila has a talented voice followed by an innate love for different singing techniques, ranging from many cultures, which enables her to switch from one to another as she pleases. Having worked with her in the 'Aftershock' workshops, I can also add that she is very open minded and easy to work with, and that creating music with her becomes fun, as she doesn't have a problem with expanding into musical territories she might not know.."
MAX MOYA (OJOS DE BRUJO)
Nila Raja’s favourite things are sub bass, drummers with big hair, glitter paint and big shoes. So if you’re wondering what to expect from her live shows this summer that will give you some idea…
“With a voice overflowing with nimble agility, always surprising and restless by nature…” (Nitin Sawhney), Nila has transformed from an ethereal and mesmerizing goddess into a dub-esque temptress of flamenco-delic math pop. Her swirling acoustic guitars and haunting vocals have gathered grit, attitude and a little more sub bass and the Anglo-Indian beauty will be performing this new material with her newly named band, “Nila and the Rajas”
At the age of just 22, Nila is an Emerging Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre, London where she performed her orchestral composition “Big Clouds” with the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the recent sell-out “Takeover” show in the Royal Festival Hall (Feb 09). She has also had the privilege of working with Nitin Sawhney, Mad Professor, Max Moya (Ojos de Brujo), Jason Yarde, Zoe Rahman, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Seb Rochford and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
The ‘wise-beyond-her-years-songstress’ (Chic Today), is also an astounding multi-instrumentalist, playing viola, piano, Santoor, tabla and bass and has a Goldsmiths’ degree in Popular Music. As a classically trained musician and singer, Nila’s performed in an impressive array of established venues across the UK including Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, where she launched her 2008 EP: Unattached to Desire, Royal Albert Halls, Bridgewater Hall, Albany theatre, Cargo, 93 Feet East, Passing Clouds and Brighton’s answer to SWSW Great Escape (2008). She has also performed on BBC Songs of Praise, BBC Radio 4 and BBC Asian Network on the Nikki Bedi show.
Nila cites polyglot artists as inspirations including Natacha Atlas, Battles, Acoustic Ladyland, The Prodigy, SkunkAnansie and The Bad Plus. Her music represents a concotion of all these influences and as Shlomo aclaims, 'If you like lush vocals, and spooky arrangements check out Nila, she's bound for great things'.
Wir haben auf unserem MYspace mal die erste Version unseres Musikvideos Onlinen gestellt! Seht es euch doch mal an und sagt uns was ihr davon haltet!!!
VIDEO AUF PRO 7:
Seit Dienstag Abend ist unsere Video zum Song "Let me go" bei Pro 7 "Myvideo Star" auf Platz 7!!!
Das Video wird nexte Woche hoffentlich im Ranking nach oben klettern, dafür müsst ihr auf www.myvideo.de Voten!!! =))
Our Single " Let me Go" is voted under the Top 10 Videos on myvideo.de and was featured on Collien Fernandes Pro7-Show MyVideo Star. Click This => http://www.myvideo.at/myvideostar to see what Jennifer Rostock says about our Video!!!
Please help to stay in the Top 10 and vote vor us!!!
Hey! Appologies if this is the second comment we've sent you recently...bit of a mix up in the bands communication :)
Anyway.. we've been a little quiet for the last few months but we are very pleased to announce our new EP is finished and up on our myspace! It's called Bright Lights and has four brand spanking new tracks to blow your mind. Please have a listen and tell us what you think and if you love it, buy it! :)
"Exciting, Striding and assured. It has an energy reminiscant of everything that was good about the Klaxons debut album.." - BBC Radio Bristol
4-7 of June - FINDAMORALE FESTIVAL 2009, HOXTON, LONDON.
with SUPER double bills from Paris on 5th and 6th of June featuring
1) - HADRIEN FERAUD (Bireli Lagrene, John McLaughlin, Chick Corea) and RUMEURS
2) - LINLEY MARTHE ( Joe Zawinul, Mino Cinelu, Dave Liebman, Trilok Gurtu, Richard Galliano) Project. You will have a rare chance to see these two bands on one night for the price of one!
Only at CHARLIE WRIGHT'S INTERNATIONAL (45 Pitfield Street, N1 6DA). For more info call 07918635328 or go www.myspace.com/charliewrights
Thank you for stoping by for the link up..remember my single "Go Then, Bye" (out May 25th) has just been uploaded. You can catch the video in the video section 2 x
Thankyou for adding Sonic World Festival, 4/5th September 2009. Tickets are available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk and www.myspace.com/harveybainbridgemusic as well as our own myspace site. £30 for the whole weekend, indoor toilets, free showers, free camping, bars, bar meals and restaurant, indoor venue.
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