DESCRIPTION:
preview of EARDRUM's new album "Colonised" to be released on District Six Records later this year 2015.

THIS IS THE 4TH STUDIO ALBUM FROM EARDRUM, THE UK BASED COLLECTIVE OF PROLIFIC AND INFLUENTIAL
WORLD/JAZZ/EXPERIMENTAL MUSICIANS

(MEMBERS HAVE/ARE ALSO PLAYING WITH: MULATU ASTATKE, TONY ALLEN, ASWAD,SKA CUBANO, JAZZ WARRIORS,JAZZ JAMAICA,HUGH MASEKELA, BLACK TOP, SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER, YAABA FUNK, VENUS BUSHFIRES, ETC)

MOSTLY RECORDED AS A LIVE BAND ONE-TAKE SESSION, REMINISCENT OF THEIR FIERY LIVE SHOWS, THIS ALBUM HAS BEEN RIGOUROUSLY MIXED AND DUBBED OUT IN THE SAME SPIRIT AS THE FRONT OF HOUSE SOUND ENGINEER; IMPULSIVELY REACTING WITH THE BAND ONSTAGE.

THE MUSIC HAS ALL THE ELEMENTS OF AN EDGY AND OFTEN DISTURBING MEETING OF MANY WORLDS;
WEST AFRICAN, NORTH INDIAN, ELECTRONICA, FREE JAZZ - AND YET STILL IT RETAINS THE MONSTER ORGANIC DANCE GROOVES FOR WHICH THE BAND IS ALREADY KNOWN AND LOVED.

FEATURING VOCALS FROM NIGERIA, ERITREA AND EGYPT, THE ALBUM FLICKS FROM MOSTLY INSTRUMENTALS
TO A FEW VOCAL-LED TRACKS, WITHOUT LOSING ANY FOCUS, AS TIGHT HORN ARRANGEMENTS AND
HEAVY DRUM BREAKS,SEAMLESSLY SPLAY OUT INTO DEEP INTERSTELLA IMPROVISATION.

AS WITH PREVIOUS EARDRUM MATERIAL, "COLONISED" HYPNOTISES, EVOKES AND STIRS UP IN THE MIND OF
THE LISTENER AND THE DANCER ALIKE

PERSONNEL

RICHARD OLATUNDE BAKER (UK/Nigeria) talking drum/percussion/fx
LOU CICCOTELLI (USA) - drumkit
HARVIR SAHOTA SINGH (India) - tabla/percussion
RASAQ AYANDELE (Nigeria) - omele bata
PAT THOMAS (UK/Caribbean) - keyboard/electronics
JASON YARDE (Caribbean) - tenor sax
NICK WALTERS (UK) - trumpet
TREVOR EDWARDS (Caribbean) - trombone
AGE NORTHOVER (UK) - alto sax
AYO ODIA (Nigeria) - alto sax
TREVOR ANTONIO (Gambia/Caribbean) - udu on "Yellow Skies"

FEATURED VOCALS
HELEN ISIBOR (Nigeria) - on "Magic Train"
SABA TEWELDE (Eritrea) - on "Bikoboro"
EMPRESS *1 (Egypt) - on "Iya el Donia"