Sven Hammond Soul
‘the fresh old school hammond soul and funk sound from Holland’
Sven Figee, musician, producer and founder of ‘Sven Hammond Soul’ was born on the 27th of may 1975. His style of playing may be best described as rockin’ fat hammond soul, jazz and funk. Studied jazz piano @ the rotterdam conservatory but got really into playing the Hammond B3 with the Hague based funk band 'Prats the Whoblem'. During and after his student days he started touring as sideman with dutch singer / songwriter Marcel de Groot. After that, he joined dutch rock diva Anouk on her European tour in '98/'99 and played several club tours and festivals with her in 2000. In 2000 he also teamed up with dutch soul/funk singer Rose Spearman producing and co-writing her debut album 'Trust' in 2002 (United Recordings) and her second album 'Livin It' (released in 2007 with SonyBMG). He cooperated with many artists like Keith Caputo (US), Nate James (UK), Sandra St. Victor (US), Berget Lewis, DJ Roog, DJ Maestro, Splendid, Xander de Buisonje, Rik Mol and many others.
The year 2006 he started his own band, ‘Sven Hammond Soul’.
Drummer Joost Kroon and bass player Glenn Gaddum play fuming sixties and seventies grooves on which Sven’s organ moans, growls, jizzls, jazzls and rocks; the way it should be. Inspired by his heroes Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy Smith and Jimmy Hendrix, Figee almost breaks down the organ. Guitar player Tim Eijmaal tops it of with razor-sharp riffs and distorting, screaming guitar solo’s. On top of that Sven Hammond Soul teamed up with the rockin’ and soulful miss Corrina Greyson from London, who’s voice reminds you of Janis Joplin in her good days
They recorded a live CD on the 5th of oktober 2006 @ the Zwarte Ruiter, Den Haag. That gave them a great spin off: The Hague Jazz festival (2007 and 2008), Ijazz festival (Amsterdam, 2008) and the Bel Air Sessions in the Hague, teaming up with many dutch soul and jazz musicians like Boris, Benjamin Herman, Hugh Kanza and many others. After a year of hard work in the studio they recently finished mixing the new album with some great features from Corrina Greyson (UK), Benjamin Herman (NL) and others.
Now the time comes to release their music; the first single, Lookin Up, Turnin Round, featuring the wonderful vocals of miss Corrina Greyson, will be released by Hammond beat records on 7-inch vinyl and will be available on www.hammondbeat.com and some of the best record stores on the planet, like Dusty Grooves (Chicago, US) and Concerto / Jazz Center (NL)
For more details 'n stuff check our studio and production team: Marmalade Music
