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smoke city

smoke city Radio

General Info

  • Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Lounge

    Location London, London and South East, UK

    Profile Views: 173810

    Last Login: 5/7/2010

    Member Since 5/28/2006

    Website http://www.geocities.com/MadisonAvenue/8877/smokee

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    .. .. ....crash_codes.... .. .. ...... In 1997 the band released their first album Flying Away, which included several hits like "Underwater Love", "Mr. Gorgeous (and Miss Curvaceous)" and "Águas de Março (Joga Bossa Mix)". Whilst Flying Away was hard to classify because it had everything from light trip-hop to gentle guitar ballads, Smoke City's next album, Heroes of Nature (released in 2001), was considered too odd even by fans, combining even more styles and incorporating dance beats in some of the tracks.Miranda formed Smoke City with former schoolmate Mark Brown, with whom she shared an affection not only for the music of Santana and Gilberto Gil but also classic '70s funk; rounding out the line-up with guitarist Chris Franck, formerly of the Brighton-based Brazilian percussion group Batu, the group issued a handful of indie-label singles before signing to Jive Records in the fall of 1995. Their debut LP Flying Away followed two years later, and was highlighted by the single "Underwater Love," which became a European hit thanks to its use in a commercial campaign for Levi's jeans.

  • Members

    * Nina Miranda (vocals, fx) * Mark Brown (programming, turntables, keyboards, percussion, vocals, fx) * Chris Franck (guitar, keyboards, percussion, bass, vocals)

  • Influences

    Old time Jazz....ella fitzgerald...billie Holiday...Louie Armstrong. many of the old jazz singers really influence .. ..Discovery 1996 Underwater Love 1997 Flying Away 1997 Mr Gorgeous 1997 Joga Bossa(Águas de Março) 1997 With You 1998 Numbers 1998 Red Hot + Rhapsody 1999 Nitin Sawhney, Beyond Skin 1999 Red Hot + Lisbon, Onda Sonora 2000 Bebel Gilberto,Tanto Tempo 2000 Da Lata, Songs From the Tin 2000 Jug / Hawaii 2001 Compost 100 2001 Robert Miles,Organik 2001 Nitin Sawhney,Prophesy 2001 Heroes of Nature

  • Sounds Like

    acid jazz and trip hop

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