BAND MEMBERS Lisa Shaw – Singer Tim Fuller – Singer Miguel Migs – Guitar Jude Gold - Lead Guitar Jonathan Herrera - Bass Guitar John Mader - Drums Sundra Manning - Keyboard Tim K - Keyboard
BAND MEMBER BIOS: Lisa Shaw – Singer
Lisa was born in Toronto, Canada, and has been singing live and recording in New York City for over 15 years, collaborating with producers such as Miguel Migs, Dave Warrin, Dave Warrin and Jay Denes, king Britt, Scott Hardkiss and many others. Since 1994 she's had over 30 songs released with labels like Naked Music, Om, Salted, RCA, Grand Central UK. Ministry of Sound, Virgin UK, Astralwerks, Nrk and WAVE
Tim Fuller – Singer
From vancouver, BC started singing in high school jazz choirs and studied vocal jazz in college. Sang in acappela group The Melloyds which over period of seven years, recorded two albums and toured internationally for A&M Records.This singer songwriter producer enjoys all genres of music and cowrote two songs on Miguel Migs' "THOSE THINGS" sophomore album. His own album "THE SLIGHTEST TOUCH" was released on bombay records in 2006. In the past he has collaborated with Groove Armada and his tracks have been remixed by the Spiritcatchers, Chicken Lips, Chuck Love, Fred Everything, Ilya Rudman and Miguel Graca.
Miguel Migs – Guitar
Miguel Migs stands at the forefront of electronic music's soulful realm. Whether tackling his original productions or remixes, he achieves an organic-soulful sound by combining the best of both the electronic music world and live instrumentation. His impressive discography includes more than 100 original productions and remixes on seminal independent labels such as Salted Music, Naked Music, Astrelwerks, Yoshitoshi, NRK, Black Vinyl, Large, Chez, Transport recordings, Om Records, Defected Records and many others. His recordings have consistently made waves in the underground circuit and have landed on DJ hype charts internationally. Never one to sit still, Migs started his own label Salted Music in 2004. Having been associated with an extensive number of labels throughout his career, he came to realize a desire to have his own base, a vehicle for building his own catalogue of quality material. Salted Music is a foundation for Migs to choose and release music that inspires him, as well as release his own productions and compilations.As a producer, Miguel realizes a strong connection between his electronic music productions and live musical background. He writes his own lyrics and plays his own instruments, be it guitar, bass, percussion or keyboard.
Jude Gold - Lead Guitar
Guitarist/composer Jude Gold is Associate Editor of Guitar Player Magazine and has performed, toured, and/or recorded with DJ Spooky, the Oakland Symphony, JGB (formerly the Jerry Garcia Band), Jay-J and Latrice Barnett, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, ’80s jukebox hero Eddie Money, raunch rappers 2 Live Crew, funk kingpins George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars, bluegrass icon David Grisman, and Spinal Tap’s David St. Hubbins (actor Michael McKean). Gold also tours with BX3, a band featuring electric bass legends Stu Hamm, Jeff Berlin, and Billy Sheehan. Hear Jude's funky licks on Miguel Migs' new album, Those Things.Visit Jude online at www.judegold.com.
Jonathan Herrera - Bass Guitar
Jonathan Herrera was born in Los Angeles, where he began his musical life at age 5 with the piano. Despite his ancient teacher's narcolepsy, Jonathan fell for music, which he continued to persue with the bass upon hitting high school. After studying music at the University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Music Academy, Jonathan migrated northward to San Francisco. He's played and/or recorded with lots of groovy folks, including Zigaboo Modeliste, Will Kennedy, Kai Eckhardt, Eoin Harrington, Cyrus Chestnut, Atma Anur, Barry Finnerty, and many, many more. He's also the Senior Editor of Bass Player Magazine.
John Mader - Drums
John Mader was born in Oakland, California. At 17 John began his profession pursuit in music. At 21 he joined the well known Bay Area band, The Uptones . The Uptones toured the U.S. opening for Billy Idol, UB40, Oingo Boingo, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many others.The Uptones went on to win a BAMMY. Soon John had offers to play with his own jazz heroes: Norbert Statchel, Julie Homi, Curtis Ohlson, Frank Martin, and many others. John joined Ryan Downe as a member of his band, and they enjoyed two tours opening for The Who, on the Quadrophenia Tour, playing to 30,000 screaming fans in support of Ryan's album "Hypocrite" on Polygram.
Recently, in addition to performing with several Miles Davis band alumni, John has performed on stage with Grammy Award winning artists Booker T. Jones, Steve Miller, Pat Benatar, Patti Austin, Angela Bofil, and Lenny Williams. John also has toured extensively with Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley of the JB’s (James Brown Horns, and Parliament Funkedelic’s "Horny Horns"). John is currently performing with Booker T. Jones, and Miguel Migs. He recently performed with The Family Stone Experience (Formerly Sly and the Family Stone), and this winter completed a third leg of the B3 tour with Stu Hamm , Billy Shehan , and Jeff Berlin.
Sundra Manning - Keyboard
Sundra studied at San Francisco State University. She plays the keys, piano and organ and has toured with the likes of Prince, Michele Shocked and Michael Franti and Spearhead.
Tim K - Keyboard
Tim K lives in Brooklyn, NY. Tim K produces hi-fi electronic music, and has done over 50 original productions/remixes, including 3 top 5 Billboard Club Play tracks. As a producer, Tim K (half of house music production duo Home & Garden) has projects released on Atlantic, Warner Bros, Reprise, EMI, Om Records, Classic (UK), and Nordic Trax (CA). As a sideman keyboardist, Tim K has performed with Lucy Woodward, Shoshana Bean, Razhel (of the Roots) and the legendary Lisa Shaw. As a producer, Tim K has worked in the studio with production guru Mic Murphy (of the System), Derrick Carter, Colette, Itaal Shur (Maxwell, Santana), JT Donaldson, Jay-J, Lady Kier and many others. His original music has graced most major and cable TV networks, and his underground tracks have invaded many dance floors around the world.
SALTED MUSIC is celebrating the release of Miguel Migs’ artist album ‘Those Things’ with the presentation of his new live band PETALPUSHER.
‘Those Things’ represents an open-minded musical spectrum that can have multi-meaning and definition combining electronic music elements with live instrumentation inspired by old soul, funk, reggae and hip-hop,” states San Francisco-based Migs about his follow-up to his 2002 debut album ‘Colorful You’ (Astralwerks/Naked Music).
This is the inspiration behind taking PETALPUSHER to audiences across the globe performing in a variety of venues, events and festivals in the summer of 2007 and beyond. This is Miguel Migs’ new full live project fusing his electronic inspirations with organic musical elements taking it all the way live! Consisting of eight members some of whom have performed with the likes of ‘Prince’ and ‘Tower of Power’ and are top notch musical black belts including Lisa Shaw on lead vocals.
‘Petalpusher’ is a unique and diverse blend of old school funky soul and current dance rhythms that result in an intoxicating live experience… With an arsenal of material to choose from, the band will focus on performing new and old songs from Miguel and Lisa’s extensive catalogue.
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NEW TRACK ON MY SPACE: 'CHACHA feat Anais' 'PHYSICAL DREAM'
We keep on doin' good music, having new releases for you coming out this month so, if you wanna know what's currently out click on the following link...
Hi there Petalpusher Thnx alot 4ur Support Hope everything is cool with ya House Music goes LIVE+++ check out our video section for more best wishes 2008 ~ V ~
thanks for the add! i can't wait to see you again! when i saw you at rebel quite a few months back i was totally enveloped in your energy. i couldn't stop dancing! thanks for the great tunes!
