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The Fontanas
Down-tempo / Funk / Ska

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West London
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Member Since5/24/2006
Influences

Sam Sutton, Kay Elizabeth - Vox, Gav Skeggs - Vox, Carl Hudson - Keys/synths, Kari - Drums, Frank Walden - Sax, Nick Etwell - Trumpet, Matt Branton - Bass gtr

Bill Withers, Seu Jorge, Mylo, John Martyn, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, The Rapture, LCD SS, Luke Vibert, Gorillaz, Horace Andy, Jackie Mittoo, Bob Dylan, TheSkatalites, Eric Burdon & the animals: this is getting too random. Lets be honest ..Anything with soul.



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Catch The Fontanas @ Cover Up at Ginglik.co.uk bar
9th October - 13th November - 11th December



Sun 21st June - Kelburn (Graffiti Project) Garden Party - www.kelburnproductions.com/gardenparty

Sat 27-28th June - Glastonbury Festival

Fri 10th July - Ginglik.co.uk 'Cover Up' + support from Simi

Fri 24-25th July - Secret Garden Party

Sat 1st July - Standon Calling - Main Stage

Sun 6th Sep - Festinho Festival - http://festinho.com - Main stage

Fri 14th Aug - Ginglik 'Cover Up' + 'Rain Dog' + 'Sam Heard' live

Fri 21st Aug - Green Man Festival - Chai Wallas

Fri 11th Sep -Ginglik 'Cover Up'

Sat 19th Sep - Summer Sunset Party - Berkshire

Hand picked by six degrees of separation, 'The Fontanas' cut their teeth at their monthly residency at West London's Ginglik club. Winner of the PRS Best New Bands of 2007, The Fontanas is the production vehicle for Sam Sutton, winner of the IVCA award for Best Music on TV 2006. The debut album, 'Introducing The Fontanas' is a case study in musical progression, with a catalogue of tracks ranging from back-foot Brazilian grooves to funk-fuelled anthems that blow the doors off. With influences scattered across the globe, the music finds its roots in the foothills of Brazil and Jamaica, but defines its sound from its urban home in West London.
Co-writers on this debut release include Andy Hughes, founder member of the Orb, (Little Fluffy Clouds) who recently mixed the Basement Jaxx studio album and shares 'Atlantic Jaxx' studios in Brixton where 'Ska'd for Life' and 'Skank' were co-written and mixed. Also appearing on the album is vocalist Heidi Levo, who performs with The Cinematic Orchestra, Isaac Hayes and the Brand New Heavies and has released tracks on Hed kandi, Defected Records, Africanism and Eclectic Breaks, amongst many others. Ska'd for Life features cuts from Technics-DMC UK finalist DJ Gizroc, founder member of The Mixologists, whilst Mother's Love, Sunshine and Angel Maria feature co-production by Big Bossa's Simon Ashton. The list goes on, but the end result is the same - a super charged album of tracks that aims to please.
But dont take our word for it, heres what the press said...
"An orgasmic journey into these two brothers.. minds...amazing clarity of depth." Peter Flinch - Bill Board
"The way they mix brazilian and contemporary sounds is second to none, a real treat." Clair Fisher - Rolling Stone

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FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Nov 20 2009 11:27 AM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our fourth LP release...

LEILA ADU has been described as 'A Nina Simone for the Noughties', and her two acclaimed albums infuse a broadly 'art-rock' approach with elements of torch song, speakeasy blues, avant garde jazz, gamelan, post-rock textures, and a David Lynch style dreamlike b-movie melodrama. As her website has it, exploring the "dissonant edges of familiar forms", but with that kind of 'dissonance' that they once accused Thelonious Monk or Debussy of, the kind that soon betrays it's own compelling melodic and harmonic logic to the attentive listener...

'Dark Joan', Leila's third album as a solo artist, was recorded in Chicago with the legendary Steve Albini (PJ Harvey, Joanna Newsome, Nirvana, Pixies), and Albini's genius has been to strip her sound back to it's essence, and hold it's most distinctive qualities up to the light. It doesn't hurt that this is by far Leila's most powerful set of songs to date, and if anything we are lead even deeper into her world by the pictures painted with just piano (or in some cases harpsichord or a grime-encrusted electric piano) and that voice...

Capable of anything from delicate heartbreaking purity to a fearsome dramatic power, her powers are seemingly limitless, yet unlike most other singers of her calibre, never does she resort to melodrama or show-boating, or any kind of pastiche, instead she employs her resources fully in the expression of her distinctive musical vision and the deep well-spring of her imagination. Nothing ever sounds as though it could have not been sung...

Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com

LOK Records

LOK Records



Nov 18 2009 4:33 PM

OUT NOW ON BEATPORT


NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport

NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport



Nov 12 2009 11:30 AM

YO YO YO!!! CHR 01 is OUT NOW!!! You can buy it here!!! Hope you dig our sound!!! ..
..........
Dave De Rose EP on iTunes NOW!

Dave De Rose EP on iTunes NOW!



Nov 10 2009 10:59 AM

Sorry bout spammin up your page...
It's a jungle out there! :)
 
The big, warm electro-acoustic sound of the De-Glammafy EP is finally available here Dave De Rose - De-Glammafy EP
Nuff Respekt
Ddr
NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport

NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport



Oct 27 2009 6:18 PM

Hi there""" hope all is fine!! just to invite you and your firends to discover our digital record label : ..
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Simon Says Productions

Simon Says Productions



Oct 26 2009 10:50 PM

Lurvely tunes. Nice to see someone's still writing and producing great music. So much rubbish out there! ha ha
big love
simon
Dj Alex B

Dj Alex B



Oct 22 2009 5:57 PM

Hello The Fontanas,

Hope you are doing well!

Feel free to listen to my new house track called "The Strings Of paris" which is available right now on my page and web digital shop.
This is a kind of old school flavoured house track.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Alex B (Paris/Fr)


Dj Alex B - House Music France


www.DjAlexB.fr


House Music Digital Shop

FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Oct 22 2009 3:53 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our third LP release...

"Anutha Kinda Brotha" is the debut LP from underground legend ART TERRY. Since moving to the UK from his native Los Angeles in the early 90s, Mr Terry has established himself as one of London's characters. Describing Art's sound to the uninitiated usually involves debunking some of the stereotypes of what the 'typical' black Californian might play. Despite his jazz training, and coming of age to the sounds of classic soul and funk, these styles are only a part of his musical vision. His fascination with folk styles, classical music, punk rock, pure pop, easy listening, musical theatre and the European avant garde have taken him on different paths from most...

The result is an orchestral pop record full of sonic inventiveness, whether it's the blend of Shuggie Otis's 60s California and Sun Ra's ancient Egypt on 'Bible', Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons leading a mariachi band on 'Escort', or the Walt Disney music box orchestra of 'Miss Dominatrix', but whilst this is very much a sonic feast, we shouldn't overlook Art's extraordinary lyrical adeptness, and the distinctive character this brings to the proceedings, with a knack for unique and colourful imagery, and how like a great short story writer he is able to paint an engaging picture whilst keeping back from casting judgement on his characters, always leaving open ends for the listener to tie; giving us the feeling that however far astray someone might have gone, there is always sympathy and human feeling for them in Art's mind...

Download from iTunes, LP/CD from http://www.frizzrecords.com

Junkyard Scientists

Junkyard Scientists



Oct 7 2009 5:22 PM

Upcoming Gigs

Friday the 9th of October
Golden Lion, Bristol

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Saturday the 10th of October
Monto@The Water Rats theatre with Kubla Kahn

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Plus Dont forget our iTunes...

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FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Oct 1 2009 7:31 PM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our second official LP release...

"Modern Mediaeval" is the third LP from singer-songwriter DAVID GARSIDE, and the first to receive the full Frizz Records vinyl treatment. It’s also clearly the most fully-realised statement of his distinctive vision so far…

It’s an easy route to locate David in the tradition of his ‘classic’ influences (McCartney, Nick Drake, Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, The Beach Boys, Love, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Dexy’s…), but there are few songwriters working today that have absorbed these influences so fully, and arrived at a mature style as David has…

This is ’singer-songwriter’ music in the sense that it’s focus is on song-craft and the unfolding of the lyrical vision of a single individual, but if so then it’s definitely at the sophisticated end of the scale (’progressive’ if that term isn’t too loaded…), filed alongside ‘Bryter Layter’, ‘The Hissing Of Summer Lawns’, ‘Pretzel Logic’ or ‘Surf’s Up’...another FRIZZ RECORDS instant classic!

"Modern Mediaeval" can be downloaded from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

FRIZZ RECORDS

FRIZZ RECORDS



Sep 22 2009 10:48 AM

....FRIZZ RECORDS is proud to announce our first official LP release...

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" is the debut release from AUGUST, the London based band centred around the songwriting partnership between vocalist VEDINA MOSE and multi-instrumentalist / producer RAPHAEL MANN (MR HUDSON / JOY JOSEPH / ART TERRY), with master drummer CLEAN CUT MARK and clarinetist / vocalist MAREE CHOIE completing the core line-up, and a supporting cast including ART TERRY (keyboards), SHOHEI KAWAMOTO (AKA Japanese producer Baraki, Bass clarinet, soprano sax and flute), and KAI HOFFMAN (French horn)

Always an act that juggled a diverse set of influences, the album has been compared to artists as diverse as KATE BUSH, PRINCE, DE LA SOUL, SLY STONE, MADLIB, SERGE GAINSBOURG and THE DELFONICS, for its concoction of wild experimentation and traditional song craft, organic production and futuristic electronic touches, funk bass & drums and jazz & orchestral references, infectious melodies and lyrical flights of fancy...with nods towards classic soul, JB funk, Studio One, 60s pop, psychedelia, left field hip hop, new wave, doo wop, tropicalia, high life, & avant garde jazz, without any song ever fitting squarely into any of those categories...new music, basically...and an instant classic!

"It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" can be downloaded now from the iTunes Store

The album is also available on heavyweight vinyl LP in a sumptuous gatefold sleeve, or on Digipack CD from www.FrizzRecords.com & all good retailers

AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR

AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR



Sep 18 2009 1:15 PM

NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport

NOV 20 2009 - CHR02 Out On Beatport



Sep 17 2009 8:29 AM

Thx for the ADD!!!! hope you enjoy our sound... leave a comment about us!:):)
James

James Cupcake



Sep 11 2009 4:38 PM

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Aug 26 2009 2:41 AM

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peace, from Greece, all the best


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Ben Laney

Ben Laney,II



Aug 20 2009 11:49 PM


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Charlie Winston

Charlie Winston



Jul 29 2009 5:25 PM

Ren Van Leer (http://twitter.com/renvanleer)

Ren Van Leer



Jun 29 2009 2:50 PM

The Fontanas

Whats Up? I just wanted to drop by and leave you with the new info on me and DreamScape Sessions..The flyer below is a personal invite to our radio station...

Click on Flyer For FULL VIEW

http://pressureradio.co.uk
http://pressureradio.com/chat

come thru and chat it up with us!!

Here is a couple of mixes for your ipod or mp3 player

Bless
Ren



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Jun 15 2009 2:24 PM

DR. DUCKENSTEIN IS READY FOR THE NEXT PATIENT.
BE PART OF HIS AUDIOTERRESTRIAL CONSULTATION HOUR
AND LISTEN TO  DUCKENSTEIN'S TWIST.

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SunrIse Celebration 3-6th June

SunrIse Celebration 3-6th June



May 18 2009 3:41 AM

LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO GO TILL SUNRISE 2009 May 28-31st in Somerset - Bruton Delighted you guys can join us to play at another Legendary Sunrise Festival Can't wait to catch your set :) Peeps we are in for a treat! Sunrise 28th-31st May TICKETS SELLING FAST. DO HURRY DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO TAKE PART IN FESTIVAL HISTORY IN THE MAKING! Love from the Sunrise Team x
Dj Alex B

Dj Alex B



May 12 2009 6:00 PM

Hello The Fontanas,

How are you?

I am pleased to announce a new electronic-house tracks called "That Bitch" which is available right know on my page and web digital shop.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Alex B (Paris/Fr)


Dj Alex B on myspace


www.DjAlexB.fr


Alex B Digital Shop
Planetman & The Internationalz Live

Planetman & The Internationalz Live



Apr 29 2009 4:21 AM

safe Sam
was good to have u at the clouds
see u at sunrise fest if not before
big up!

planetman
AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR

AQUA NEBULA OSCILLATOR



Apr 23 2009 11:54 AM

VibeJays

VibeJays



Apr 14 2009 3:41 PM

Dear "The Fontanas"

Love can drive in a simple way... everything

Any kind of art...

Be the Love... in every moment

Have a great year !!!

We are connected...

Vibejays & Friends
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