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░ █ ▀█ TiTLE...[ Solid Ground █▀ █ ░
▒ █ ▀█ GENRE...[ Reggae GRABBER.[ Wavelab █▀ █ ▒
▓ █▄ █ LABEL...[ Sonar Kollektiv ENCODER.[ Lame 3.97 █ ▄█ ▓
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█▄ █▄█ SOURCE..[ CDDA MODE....[ Joint-Stereo █▄█ ▄█
█ ▀█ PLAYTiME[ 63:15 min REL.DATE[ 08.12.2008 █▀ █
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█ █░ █ 02 Slingshot 05:50 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 03 Take Your Changes 04:43 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 04 Love is A Radiation 04:01 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 05 Send A Message 06:19 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 06 Make A Move 05:23 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 07 One Step at A Time 05:19 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 08 Bulletproof 04:27 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 09 Afrophone 03:09 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 10 Strugglers 03:56 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 11 Rotten Apple 05:30 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 12 The Bubble 05:13 █ ░█ █
█ █░ █ 13 Make A Move Dub 04:44 █ ░█ █
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█ █▓░█ Reaching the age of 10 years is always a major and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ unique event in the life of a band. It is a very █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ special moment that invites you to look on back on █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the past and admire the long way youÆve come. THE █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ BLACK SEEDS are celebrating this very special █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ birthday with Solid Ground, the best album they ever █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ released. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ In ten years the 8 piece roots/dub/funk outfit █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hailing from the coastal capital of Wellington, New █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Zealand has matured to become one of the major █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ pacifasian music bands. In 2001 the band lead by █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ singer/writer BARNABY WEIR recorded the critically █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ acclaimed and gold-selling debut album Keep On █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Pushing. They kept on turning heads around with their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ second album On The Sun released in 2004. With its 2 █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ hit singles So True and Turn It Around being on heavy █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ rotation on all the national radios and music █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ televisions On The Sun achieved double platinum sales █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ at home and helped solidifying THE BLACK SEEDSÆ █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ status as one of New ZealandÆs premier groups. They █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ exposed internationally their pacific vibe and their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ feel good, reggified and sunkissed grooves with Into █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ The Dojo released in 2007 on Sonar Kollektiv. To █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ support the release of their third album THE BLACK █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ SEEDS completed a very successful 18-show European █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ tour in July/August 2007 that included sell-out shows █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in London (Mean Fiddler), the Edinburgh Festival (3 █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ shows), Berlin (2 shows), a standout performance at █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the famous Lowlands Festival in Holland (70,000 █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ strong), a live performance on the BBCÆs CRAIG █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ CHARLES Funk and Soul Show, as well as strong █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ attendances in many other venues across the UK, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ France, Germany and Holland. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ With such an extensive local and international █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ touring over the past years the members of THE BLACK █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ SEEDS have never been so close to each other. This █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ closeness has had a great influence upon the band, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ his evolution and upon the creative process of their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ fourth studio-album Solid Ground, in which everybody █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ has been constantly involved. Moreover founding █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ values such authenticity and integrity never left the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ creative spirits of all the members of the SEEDS █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ after all these years. The result is an album showing █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ more creative maturity and more conscious █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ experimentation. As BARNABY WEIR puts it äTHE BLACK █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ SEEDS are a tight. (...) We have set a solid █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ foundation for the band over 10 years (...) and with █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Solid Ground weÆve been experimenting with some new █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ flavours and directions. (...) I believe we have all █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ got better at what we do individually and together █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and have created some exciting new songs.ô Recorded █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ again at The Surgery Studio with DR LEE PREBBLE and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ produced by MIKE FABULOUS, Solid Ground is a real █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ masterpiece fusing infectious dub-reggae grooves, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ melodies and party jams with raw, uncompromising and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ undiluted conscious roots music. Once again a great █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ importance has been placed on remaining true to who █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ they are and where they are from - from the expansive █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ green landscapes and coastlines of New Zealand and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ the South pacific, to the urban community of their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ home city Wellington. █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ With Solid Ground THE BLACK SEEDS aim for the truth █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in twelves gems made of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ with a vintage reggae base. Crossing genre boundaries █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ in only a way THE BLACK SEEDS can, Solid Ground oozes █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ with the bands distinctive flavour û from the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ heavy-hitting karma-inspired first single Slingshot, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ to darker reggae/dub-infused tracks like Send a █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Message &The Bubble, infectious reggae gems like Love █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Is A Radiation, Come To Me and Bulletproof, and the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ funk/soul filled - Rotten Apple and AfroPhone. Once █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ again every song conveys very deep feelings and very █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ strong messages: Personal triumphs and failures, the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ fear of Love, death and apathy, relationships - good █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and bad, personal stories and insights into their █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ lives in a multi-cultural, modern nation. But, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ ultimately every song is underpined with a positive █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ and optimistic undertone, even when confronting hard █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ truths or lessons learnt. This year again THE BLACK █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ SEEDS will be performing all over Europe and █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ presenting Solid Ground in all the biggest festivals █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ such as The Lovebox Weekender (featuring the FLAMING █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ LIPS, MANU CHAO, GROOVE ARMADA) and Rip Curl █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Boardmasters Festival in the UK, Roskilde in Denmark █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ (featuring RADIOHEAD, KINGS OF LEON, etc); the █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ Summerjam and Splash Festivals in Germany (JAY Z, █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ COMMON, STEVEN MARLEY); the Garance Festival in █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ France and many more. So donÆt stay aside and come █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ enjoy the solid grooves and fresh irie sounds of THE █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ BLACK SEEDS! █░▓█ █
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█ █▓░█ ôThereÆs something instantly catching about this █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ sun-soaked album that will have you █░▓█ █
█ █▓░█ coming back again and again!ö █░▓█ █
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