The Duke & The King (Usa/Loose Music)
En concert à La Fleche d'Or
MARDI 23 FEVRIER 2010 A 20H
102 Bis rue de Bagnolet 75020 Paris
The Duke & The King are a glam-soul-folk quartet from New York featuring Simone Felice, Bobbie Bird Burke, Simi Stone and Nowell Haskins. Named after the traveling Shakespeare hustlers in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn these curious blood-brothers (and sweet sister) have found a home together, a traveling Church of Harmony and Sin where its OK to french kiss your cousin and all strays are welcome to come out of the cold and sing along to these songs of love, loss, pathos, and hope.
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The Duke & The King - Live in Paris, France - February 23rd !! | Comments: 0
Tuesday, February 23 2010
The Duke and The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay | Comments: 0
Friday, December 25 2009
The Duke and The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay
(CD) Ramseur Records (US) / Loose Records (UK), 2009-08-04
On August 4, Ramseur Records in the US and Loose Records in the UK released Nothing Gold Can Stay by The Duke & The King, an album recorded in the the coldest Catskill winter, that shimmers with the light of memory and hope. The album features ten new songs, all co-written by The Duke (Simone Felice of The Felice Brothers) and The King (Robert Chicken Burke, from the Kraked family, longtime partner of Loik Dury, member of the cult Drugs soul/p-funk band, involved in many projects from the 20th connection of Paris DJs), and was recorded on a two-inch tape machine in Burke's one-room, woodstove-heated cabin - affectionately known as The Chapel - in Woodstock, NY. Folk-blue-eyed-soul at its best!
Kologbo feat. The Deacon - Freedom Back | Comments: 0
Sunday, December 6 2009
Kologbo feat. The Deacon - Freedom Back
(Exclusive MP3 download on ParisDJs.com) Kraked, 2009-12-06
Some of you discovered Kologbo on stage at the Afrofunk party we organized last summer with Ebo Taylor & The Poets Of Rhythm. Some others already knew he was the tenor guitar player from Fela Kuti's Afrika 70 and he now plays on stage with Tony Allen. Some of you might even have heard the Remember Fela Anikulapo Kuti album he released in 2007 with Berlin's heaviest afrobeat ensemble Afrobeat Academy... Well he's now preparing a new album called Africa is the Future, produced by Loik Dury and to be relased early 2010!! Here's a preview, with Freedom Back featuring The Deacon (from The Duke & The King) on guest vocals, a real phat vintage slice of Afrofunk!
Podcast XML Link : parisdjs.com/share/feeds/podcast2.xml [podcast?]
Tracklisting :
01. Kologbo feat. The Deacon - Freedom Back
Links :
MySpace - myspace.com/kologbo
FaceBook - Kologbo's profile
parisdjs.com
myspace.com/parisdjs
Biography :
Guitar legend Oghene Kologbo was born in Warri, Nigeria in 1957. His father was a well known highlife musician. When Kologbo was a teenager, he began performing with the revolutionary Afrobeat master Fela Kuti. Kologbo went on to record more than 50 sides with Africa 70. He played the hypnotic tenor guitar lines, but often recorded bass and rhythm guitar too. Kologbo was Fela's personal assistant and 'tape recorder'. That is, it was his job to remember the melodies Fela would sing to him late at night, then teach them to the band at rehearsal the next day. In 1978, after a show at the Berlin Jazz Festival, Kologbo left the band (along with Tony Allen and a few others) and stayed in Berlin.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Kologbo worked with the legendary but short-lived Roots Anabo. He also toured and recorded with King Sunny Ade, Tony Allen, and Brenda Fassie, among others.
In 2005, Kologbo began working with the Afrobeat Academy, Berlin's heaviest afrobeat ensemble. Their first single was released on Rabbi Records in 2006. Their full length CD Remember Fela Anikulapo Kuti was released on Lion's Ark in September 2007. In 2008 he moved to France to join Tony Allen's band as tenor guitar.In 2009 he started recording in Paris his new album: Africa Is The Future, produced by Loik Dury (out spring 2010).
The Duke & The King - In This Place We Call Our Home | Comments: 0
Sunday, October 18 2009
The Duke & The King - In This Place We Call Our Home
The Deacon (Nowell Haskins) and The King (Robert Burke) from The Duke & The King, longtime partners of Loik Dury & the Kraked family, involved in many projects from Paris DJs' 20th connection, try out a new song in the Church of Heavenly Sounds (Chiswick, England). The duo deliver a heart-rending piece of soul-folk not to be missed. And check out the album, Nothing Gold Can Stay
Links :
youtube.com/watch?v=sAv8kmRoG-s
myspace.com/dukeandtheking
parisdjs.com/index.php/post/The-Duke-and-The-King-Nothing-Gold-Can-Stay
The Duke & The King - The Morning I Get To Hell Live on BBC | Comments: 0
Sunday, October 18 2009
The Duke & The King - The Morning I Get To Hell
Live on BBC (...Later with Jools Holland)
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