Healer Selecta

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REVIEW from the Album " Let's Get It started" available worldwide in the selected shop, Freestyle, Itune, Hmv UK & Japan, Amazon, La Fnac, etc



* "Healer Selecta (aka Yvan Serrano-Fontova) is bang in the zone with this fresh new offering. Chunky beats, Surf guitar, Boogaloo breaks, soul, rocksteady (you getting the idea? Eclectic!) It's all here and in fruitful abundance. This kid does not let up his schizoid tastes make him more varied than a kelloggs variety 12 pack".



(Blues & Soul magazine - Emrys Baird)



* "An album that takes in Afrobeat, reggae, soul and even surf guitar. The musical metissage works to perfection on 'Melting pot' with percussion courtesy of Snowboy and vocals reggae DJ style from Asher Storm wheareas on 'Foundation of love' it is Brazilian percussion meets Afrobeat with an underlying piano and guitar vamp that does the business."



(Vibe UK - Tim Stenhouse)



* "Packs a punch of fun and joy!!" (Diesler)



* "A fantastic release on Freestyle and love the mix between funk, latin and breakbeat. This album is at thetime the best i heard this year!" (Innervision Records - Ed Royal)



* "Entertaining, raw and raucous, in a mishmash styleee!" (Starpoint Radio - Phil Levene)



HEALER SELECTA



Healer Selecta (aka Yvan Serrano-Fontova) is one of those multi-talented characters in music who has blazed his own individual and highly independent trail right from the outset.



Starting his musical journey early on, aged 10, playing along on his guitar to 45s by Link Wray and Howlin Wolf, Magic Sam and digging the rebellious sounds his rock & roll and R&B heroes like Gene Vincent and Bo Diddley, Yvan was already displaying his wide ranging, eclectic thirst for music that was raw, exciting, retro and powerful. By the age of 18 he was putting on parties, gigs, shows, festivals and playing guitar in bands and grooving to whatever hidden gems he dug out of the dusty record boxes of record shacks across Europe and US.



The Healer Selecta phenomenon has been involved with an amazing array of influential figures over the years as a musician, club promoter, DJ, and film music supervisor, including: John Peel, cult actress Tura Satana, Wanda Jackson, The Blue Caps, Rudy Grayzell, ABones/Norton records, All Crypt records Artists, White Stripes producer Liam Watson, as well as his own well renowned London's Raison D'Etre Music Lovers Collective helping out up and coming artists, The Noisettes, Charlie Winston, Size Nine, Hinda Hicks, Portico Quartet, etc



'Let's Get It Started' is an album that displays all of Yvan's wide ranging taste, musical knowledge and experience. There are precious few groups whose influences range from soul, rocksteady, afrobeat, Rockabilly, samba and Rhythm & Blues, latin boogaloo and surf, and even fewer who can blend these influences into a cohesive and original sound for the 21st century. It's not for nothing that respected publications sing his praises: International music bible Mojo magazine declared that "Healer Selecta has made London swing again" whilst London listings magazine Time Out described Yvan as a "hero with a record box".



Sit back, let Yvan and his crew take you on a wild musical journey where genre, trends and narrow minded purism take a back seat in favour of simply great music: not old, not new – just good!



Greg Boraman – Freestyle Records 2010.



Yvan wants to thanks: CRYSTAL Design/RAISON D'ETRE, AINA DUSTAPHONICS , ASHER STORM, OPHELIA LOVIBOND, Vocals/Lyrics - MATT SUMMERFIELD - GREG RICHARD - JONNY GIBBS :Bass - BRUCE BRAND - GABOR DORNYEI , PATRICK LEVETT: Drums - SNOW BOY: Percussion - BRIAN IDDENDEN, OLI on Sax - NICK ETWELL and KEVIN LEVY on Trumpet - DAVE LIDDELL on Trombone - LIZZIE MARIE, MIKE PALMER. DAVE KOOR, DAN FEEL: Hammond, Rhode, Piano. Photo, Stephanie Dray, Yvan Serrano.