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who's who and who's doing what?zeep
Line up
- Chris Franck (Guitars)
- Davice Giovannini (Drums)
- Michael Mondesir (Bass)
- Nikki Yeoh (Keyboards)
- Nina Miranda (Vocals)
- country:United Kingdom
- style(s):Brazilian Pop
- label:Far Out Recordings
- type:Band
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
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From cosmopolitan London to inspirational Brazil, Zeep - the new band from b> - bring you an album inspired by the attitude of the 70s when music was live, urgent, right-on, scruffy, funky and folksy.
Nina and Chris were involved in two of the biggest selling and critically acclaimed Brazilian influenced acts of the past decade Smoke City (still remembered for their seminal 'Underwater Love' track) - and Da Lata, signed to Chris Blackwell's Palm Pictures label.
By no-means limiting their involvement to only 'Musica Brasileira', over the years they have collaborated with a number of world renowned musicians such as Tony Allen, Marisa Monte, Femi Kuti and Bebel Gilberto to name a few.
Whilst Zeep was mainly dreamt up in London, the beat of Brazil gives the music it's swing, as electric guitars, funky drumming and samba percussion all combine with shouts, whispers and random bursts of 'collective conscience' to produce one of the freshest albums we've heard in a long time. "We made this record without having a record deal in place as we wanted to let the music dictate where it was going", says Chris, "this is music for music's sake, recorded with everyone playing together".
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