Vince Millett: Production, oud, fretless guitar, other guitars Louis Counter: Production, tablas, melodica, coffee Pete Sharpe: Vocals, bass, a general air of coolness Paul Midgley, Tom Gregory : Arabian percussion - frame drums, darabukas - that sort of thing!
More mp3s available on our website: www.brokendrumrecords.com There is a lot of cool stuff on our website so please come and visit.
Transglobal Underground, Benga, Natacha Atlas, Talvin Singh, Burial, King Tubby, Clotaire K, Dhafer Youssef, Bill Laswell, Ojos de Brujo, Rachid Taha, Niyaz, dZihan & Kamien, The Spy From Cairo, U-Cef, Cheb I Sabbah, Dub Gabriel, Tabla Beat Science, Moving Ninja, MC Rai, Azzddine, Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects, Oojami, ItaLtEk, Lukid, Dub Gabriel, Onra, Aiwa, Temple of Sound, The Incredible String band, The Enid, Suns of Arqa, Omar Farouk Tekbilek, Sly & Robbie, Radio Tarifa, Spaceport Orchestra of Benares, Peter Gabriel, Squarepusher, Gotan Project, Bob Marley, Leftfield, Smadj, Skream, Fatboy Slim, MC Rai, Maghrebika, Psalm Drummers, 40 Thieves Orchestar, Mariza, Tinariwen, Gnawa Diffusion, L'ham de Foc, Music Matbakh, Bigg (al Khaser), Asian Dub Foundation, DJ Vadim, Justin Adams, Robert Plant.....
Also: Dub, reggae, rai, shaabi, hiphop, triphop, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, Indian classical music, Arabian traditional music, Gnawa music, Turkish traditional music, tango (real, not ballroom!), rebetika, tabla players, oud players, ney players, scratch DJs, dub bassists, fretless guitar players, people who can play the djembe properly (almost none of them!), Jean Giraud aka Moebius, the Pub Landlord, Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, the Hairy Bikers, Dr Who ........and our favourite places: Istanbul, Marrakech, Essaouira, Croydon, Aberystwyth.
Sounds Like
A festival band on a far distant desert planet......I guess we sound a bit like some of the bands in our influences list. However, we sound mostly like us.
Secret Archives of the Vatican is a small, mobile, intelligent collective of musicians. They mix breakbeats, dub, Arabian and Indian flavours, conscious lyrics, funky riddims and more to create their own unique sound. We don't know what to call this music....maybe Orientalist Dub or Transglobal Breakbeat Dub Science or sumthin' like that......
SAotV has released many private recordings over the years and several tunes have been placed on compilations in Europe and the USA. In June 2008 they released Babylon Halt, a 13 track CD album. In February 2009, they released a 9 track download only album, Remembering Machine. Since then several non-album tracks have been made available for free download from various websites. The band is powered by chickpeas.
Check out more mp3s of Secret Archives tunes on the Broken Drum Records website: www.brokendrumrecords.com There are also some mp3s by Uncle Riotous, a great links page, up to date news, band biogs and more. It's worth checking out - go on! You know you want to! Do it! Do it now!
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