NEW SINGLE 'SLINGSHOT' NOW AVAILABLE FOR DIGITAL DOWNLOAD!!!!!!!
If you're in New Zealand and a Vodafone user you can text "SEEDS" to LIVE (5483) then you’ll be sent a link to take you directly to the Slingshot page.
The track has also just been made available on iTunes Europe and you can grab it HERE
'SOLID GROUND' RELEASED AUGUST 11!!
We’re very pleased to announce that our new, fourth studio album ‘Solid Ground’ will be released in New Zealand (Rhythm Method) and Europe (Sonar Kollektiv) from August 11, 2008!!
The 13-track album has once again been recorded with Dr Lee Prebble at The Surgery studio in Wellington and produced by Mike Fabulous.
The first single Slingshot has just been released to New Zealand and European radio and will be available for digital download in July. A Limited edition 'Slingshot' single release, which includes a bonus dub remix of track ‘Make A Move’ from the new album, will be available exclusively at all European shows in July/August!
The video for Slingshot is currently being produced by Wellington company Mofresh and is due for release on July 7th.
We expect to announce Australian and U.S album release and tour details in the near future!
Solid Ground Release Dates:
New Zealand and Europe (excl France) – 11 August, 08
France – October, 08
Australia – Late August, 08 (Date TBC)
U.S.A – October, 08 (Date TBC)
EUROPEAN TOUR:
To support the European release of Solid Ground on August 11, The Black Seeds will complete a 23 show European tour in June/July/August.
The tour will include performances at some of Europe's biggest festivals including The Lovebox Weekender (featuring The Flaming Lips, Manu Chao, Groove Armada), and Rip Curl Boardmasters Festival in the UK;, Roskilde in Denmark (Radiohead, Kings Of Leon etc); the Summerjam and Splash Festivals in Germany (Jay Z, Common, Steven Marley); the Garance Festival in France
See gig listings for full tour details. Tickets are on sale now for all shows.
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‘There’s something instantly catching about this sun-soaked album that will have you
coming back again and again!’
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- IDJ Magazine
‘Feel good, reggified, soulkissed grooves…..The Black Seeds are worthy of attention’
Mo Soul Magazine
‘There’s no beating the old fashioned lure of a band who have built up a mighty following through
sweaty, hard gigging performances. This applies to the supremely danceable New Zealand 8-piece The
Black Seeds whose record sales attest to their loyal fan base… with charismatic vocalist Barnaby Weir
at the helm there’s an immediate appeal to their fresh pacific grooves… The Black Seeds’ tunes are
packed with funk, reggae, dub, and good time soul’
The Metro, London – July 26 2007
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ABOUT THE BAND
Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, The Black Seeds fuse dub, funk, and soul, with a classic reggae base. After forming in 1997, The Black Seeds have a gold album, two double-platinum selling albums, and a masterful 8-piece live show regarded as one of the finest in New Zealand.
After signing record deals with European labels Sonar Kollectiv and Rough Trade Netherlands in 2007, The Black Seeds successfully released their 3rd album Into the Dojo in Europe in July 07 to critical acclaim and strong airplay, followed by their third and most successful European tour in the summer 2007.
In 2008, The Black Seeds will release their highly anticipated 4th studio album through NZ, Europe, Australia and the U.S. The band will once again return to Europe in June – August, 08.
More details to be announced in the near future. For more information about the band check out www.theblackseeds.com
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NEW BLACK SEEDS 12" VINYL RELEASED
Our second 12" vinyl has just been released worldwide through Best Seven/Sonar Kollektiv, featuring tracks from both 'On The Sun' and 'Into The Dojo'
1) Sometimes Enough
2) Way The World
3) Senegal (Champions Of Africa)
4) So True
Click on the image below to purchase outside of NZ................Our first Best Seven 12" EP is also still available below
Both 12"s are available now in record stores through NZ.
Many thanks for the gig in Besançon, France... Me and my girl have first discovered your music when we travelled to NZ 2 years ago! And as a (very) big reggae, soul & funk fan, I was amazed!!! Great gig, blazing riddims and I must say, the black seeds band is real tight!!! Great musicians Check out the MackaFat CD I handed you out! Take care. Nuff love from France, and please come back!
i just saw you on Paradise village, and now, i hear your sound... i continue proud...i continue to let me hear you loud. you are so nice to my soul, thank you all.
"Where are we to look for our survival, for the answers to the questions which have never before been posed? We must look, first, to the Almighty God who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in him, that he will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which he created in his image. We must look into ourselves, into the depths of our soul. We must become something we have never been, and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been, more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations, but to our fellow men within the human community."
Words of H.I.M. HAILE SELASSIE I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, the Conquering Lion of the tribe of Judah
