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artist.....: The Stepkids
album......: Shadows On Behalf
year.......: 2011
label......: Stones Throw
STH2268
source.....: CDDA
moodswing..: Soul
releasesize: 21,7 MB
tracks.....: 02
length.....: 09:27 min
encoder....:
quality....: 320kbps
scenealized: 08.01.2011
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The Stepkids are three
singer/songwriters. A lot of what
excites us about this band is this
band itself, says bassist and
keyboardist Dan Edinberg. It's not
either of us; it's about creating an
entity where the entity itself is
what's important. As a result, every
song on the Stepkids self-titled debut
album is written with equal input from
each member.
All three of us write and all three of
us sing, says Jeff Gitelman, who
resigned from touring as Alicia Keys'
guitarist to concentrate full-time on
recording the Stepkids self-titled
debut album. Drummer Tim Walsh
continues, There's an equal split in
the creative process. Any lyric, any
melody, any idea could have been done
by any of us.
This approach comes from more than a
decade of musical experimentation and
experience. Raised on the East Coast
jazz and R&B circuit, individual band
members went on to share stages with
50 Cent and Lauryn Hill, tour
internationally with indie punk band
Zox, score movies and commercials and
produce solo albums.
The Stepkids groove is a fusion of
punk and jazz, West African and 1960s
folk, neo and classic soul, classic
funk and 20th century classical. The
band produce, engineer and record
themselves on a reel-to-reel.
There's no singular icon, no singular
sound, and no singular way of making
it happen for the Stepkids. It's
psychedelia for the 21st century,
where the focus is on the whole.
Psst, more info at www.stonesthrow.com
01 Shadows On Behalf 03:48
02 La La 05:39