The Wise Children
You better recognise!!!! - From my friend James Yarde!
Peeps!
I just wanted to let you know about this project that I'm pulling together. Forgive me if I've rammed this down you ear at some point already, but I felt it timely and necessary to hit you all up once again. On this occasion, I'm after your input.
We are The WiseChildren. You may have heard us already if you purchased Terri Walker's Mercury Nominated LP "Untitled", or her Third LP "I am". We played on, and co-wrote the songs titled, "Dirty Weekend" and "Imperative".
Anyway, enough historical talk. The current idea is simple and made of three main ingredients.
1) A bunch of musicians, with freshly squeezed creative juices flowing . . .
In the line up we have . . .
Eric "8 pack" Appapoulay on guitar,
Richard Cassell "The Beatmaker", though I prefer to call him the original WyleeKyat, on the drums
(You may remember those guys from the Apricot Jam if you and I go back that far.)
Pino Palladino, the bass guitar playing legend who's credits read like a whose who of the music world, from The Who to D'angelo,
Oleta Adams, Paul Simon, Gary Numan. (If I listed just half of the names here, this email would be too, too long!!
You wanna see?? Go look.)
Dave Okumu on guitar, of Jade Fox and now of The Invisible fame
Jason Yarde on the sax, my bigger bro and all round musical genius, plus, his angry notes . . .
Harry Brown the man about town on trombone and
Mark Crown aka the trumpet wizard.
Oh, and myself, James Yarde, of course, on the keys.
2) A series of studio recorded jam sessions, featuring super spicy, special guest artists . . .
Artists who have seasoned the sessions so far include, Marcina Arnold, Rachael Bell, Julie Dexter, Zena Edwards, Michelle Escoffery, Elisha Laverne, Eska Mtungwazi, and Amina.
When you've done reading this, you can watch video footage of some of us doing our thing here.
Soon to jam artists include Jonzi D, Terri Walker, TY and Joker Starr plus a few others that I won't mention, yet.
Born out of this blend will be a ever growing body of new music. We don't restrict ourself by genre.
We simply follow and develop any ideas we come up with that work. Groove is the only essential.
At this point I have to mention Soliheen, Ian Heron and David McEwan who assist us with their much appreciated energy,
vibes and technical support.
and speaking of support . . the third ingredient . . .
3) The love of you, hopefully. . . . With your ripe musical appetites. . .
Thats right peeps. Your love is the water that'll allow this thing to grow.
The ingredients for the first LP are currently being blended. It'll soon be cookin'. In the meantime, some material will be availiable on the iTunes store, amongst other places, in the near future.
We may even hit our loyal fans of with some free 'in progress' goodies along the way, to keep appetites wet.
Plus, we'll be scheduling some live jam sessions and showcases, so we can get up close and personal with you soon.
Come find us on our MySpace (see links below) and sellaband pages, listen to the music, subscribe to the blogs. We'll be documenting the process via these pages. We''ll soon have pages on Facebook and Last fm too, so keep an eye out. Spread the word. Run go tell ya fren!
Forward this email to anyone who you feel would be interested. (But only if they'd really be interested.)
Before you go, hit me with some feedback regarding this.
- What do you think?
- Are there any artists with whom you'd like to see us collaborate?
- Any corners of the web, or the planet, you think we should appear? Venues we should play?
- Let me know your views . . . even if you'd just like to volunteer your support.
Hit me back now, ya hear!?
Peace and Much Love
James
Hear my stuff on MySpace <www.myspace.com/jamesyarde>
also peep . . . <www.myspace.com/thewisechildren> <www.sellaband.com/thewisechildren>
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