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Lovisa to complete the SKIP labelnight |
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Swedish jazz singer Lovisa will complete the first SKIP labelnight in April. The 26 year old singer from Stockholm will perform for the first time in Germany and we are very excited to see the winner of the Monica Zetterlund Jazz Vocal Scholarship on stage outside of Sweden. In early April her debut album "That Girl!" will be released, spanning a wide range of songs between evergreens and jazz standards by Burt Bacharach or Hoagy Carmichael but also pop gems written by James Taylor or the late Eva Cassidy.
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Merry Christmas and big thanks ! |
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A big thank you to all the supporters who gave us the feeling that our efforts in 2007 were appreciated. Without your massive support our artists and the label would have been less successful. We are glad to meet your approval with our selection.
The year 2008 will start with new albums of Vocal Sampling (January), the Tingvall Trio (February) and Omar Sosa (March) , in January we finally see a tour of David Friedman Earfood & Jean Louis Matinier , in February we are looking forward to many European concerts of our South African artist Simphiwe Dana. And in April the first SKIP Label night will take place.
Have a wonderful Christmas season and a peaceful, healthy and prosperous New Year. It would be great to experience together more magic moments in music.
Thank you
Your SKIP Records team
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SKIP Label Night |
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On April 17th the first SKIP Label Night will take place in cooperation with Karsten Jahnke booking agency. The first concert of the series is - of course - scheduled for Hamburg, this time at Kampnagelfabrik K6 . Among the artists performing are the excellent Tingvall Trio from Scandinavia/Germany and the NDR Bigband with various programms including a set of "I Concentrate On You" with singer Peter Fessler and "Latin Jazz Latino" with trombonist Joe Gallardo. A surprise act for part three of the evening will be announced later. Photo exhibitions of the label and artists of the first ten years plus a special merchandising stand will complete the event as well as the opportunity to meet artists for talks and signing .
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Collectors watch out ! |
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The first 3000 copies of the SKIP jewel - case - edition of Simphiwe Dana's brandnew album "The One Love Movement On Bantu Biko Street" contain a 12 minute live version of the song "Zandisile", recorded during her European summer tour this year.
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Welcome Vocal Sampling |
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Grammy Award winning artists Vocal Sampling will release their brandnew album "Akapelleando" in Europe on SKIP. The worldwide highly acclaimed Cuban ensemble , who made a lot of friends in Europe performing together with icons like Quincy Jones and Bobby McFerrin will not only present originals in spectacular vocal arrangements but also offer their very own interpretations of timeless classics as "Hotel California" and "Banana Boat" . Between October and December their will also embark on a 25 city tour across Europe .
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Luka Bloom Fans - Watch out ! |
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The SKIP / 180 g vinyl edition of Luka Blooms's new album "Tribe" will be available in an edition limited to 1000 copies worldwide from the first week of September on . All collectors should get in touch with us early enough at info@skipreords.com as the first 600 copies are already gone by pre-orders .
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Tingvall Trio 180 g vinyl limited edition |
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Finally the 180g vinyl limited edition of Tingvall Trio's success album "Skagerrak" is now ready for shipment. The edition is limited to 1000 copies and as almost half of it is already gone by pre-orders collectors should order quickly. Requests can be sent to info@skiprecords.com , international price for lp plus packaging and shipment will be 25.- EUROS.
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New releases of Luka Bloom , Peter Fessler, the NDR Bigband and Wolfgang Schmid |
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Irish singer/songwriter Luka Bloom will release his brandnew album "Tribe", a collaboration with Simon O'Reilly, before the summer break. Of course the album will also be offered later this year in the limited 180 g vinyl series, as "the" piano trio success album of the year 2006 , Tingvall Trio / Skagerrak already in May . Vinyl fans should start looking for these collectors items soon. In May/June two collaborations between SKIP and NDR will see the light of day, starting with "I Concentrate On You" , a beautiful album of lifetime ballads performed by the NDR Bigband and sung by Germanies top jazz singer Peter Fessler, arranged by top arranger Steve Gray who also was in the captain's seat for an hommage of the Bigband to Astor Piazzolla's world of tango . A lot of concerts are in the pipeline for both projects. Before all of that legendary bass player Wolfgang Schmid will showcase his brandnew band line-up with the release "Let The Groove Begin" .
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Simphiwe Dana dominates SAMA's 2007 |
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South Africas's rising star Simphiwe Dana dominated this years South African Music Awards held in style at the Sun City Super Bowl. She received the awards in nothing less than four categories, a triumph no other Gallo artist ever achieved before. Simphiwe took home awards for her brandnew album "The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street" which will be released on SKIP next fall for "Best Contemporary Jazz Album" and "Best Vocal Jazz Album" and two of the most prestigious categories of the ceremony, "Best Female Artist" and "Album Of The Year" .
Agengy GRIOT and SKIP will present South Africa's hottest music export from May on across Europe, in hot spots like Berlin, Barcelona, Vienna and Rome, important festivals as Lugano and Winthertur (Afropfingsten) in Switzerland, Palatia Jazz in Germany or Festival Mundial in Holland and many more trendsetting locations.
Around the release of "The One Love Movement on Bantu Biko Street" more shows across Europe are in the pipeline for october and november.
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Themba Mkhize next South African top priority at SKIP |
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With South African pianist and singer Themba Mkhize another outstanding character of the South African music scene finds his home at SKIP . Mkhize who won five South African Music Awards in categories like "Jazz Album Of The Year" or "Producer Of The Year" and worked as musical director or producer for African artists like Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Sibongile Khumalo, Busi Mhlongo or Ouma Sangare, was also the man in charge for the "Jazz Meets Symphony " project and various musicals. Out of his own catalog SKIP compiled a selection of the finest moments on record to be released in the summer under the title "Scenes From South Africa". Networked with the African specialists of GRIOT on the booking side live dates for fall will be prepared soon . The African albums released so far by SKIP, Simphiwe Dana and "Women With A Voice" both reached the European World music Charts .
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European World Music Charts for |
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Big success for the compilation "Women With A Voice" compiled by Wolfgang König and SKIP. The album dedicated to great female voices from South Africa charted simultaniously to the europeanwide release in the "European World Music Charts" at No. 20 .
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Good perspectives |
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Some quick perspectives on new projects for 2007 .
Vibraphone player David Friedman just finished recordings for his second album of Tambour featuring Jean Louis Matinier - Accordeon, Peter Weniger - Saxophone and Pepe Berns on bass to be released in February.
In march SKIPs busiest artist Omar Sosa will release a memorable live recording of a Hamburg show from may 2006. Other musicians on the album include Paolo Fresu on trumpet, Childo Tomas - Bass, Julio Barretto on drums , Senegalese poet lMola Sylla and Leandro Saint-Hill on flute.
Germanies top jazz singer Peter Fessler has recorded a fantastic bigband album of lifetime ballads, arranged by Steve Gray and including soloists like Nils Landgren, Danny Gottlieb and Gary Husband. Release around the summer concerts with the NDR Bigband .
The homerun of South African singer Simphiwe Dana will continue in 2007 with europeanwide concerts (e.g. Rome, Barcelona, Hamburg, Palatia Jazz ....) before a new album will be ready in the fall season .
A big thank you to all supporters in 2006 and a peaceful, healthy and successful 2007 .
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For the second time SKIP Records collaborates with the "Africa expert" Wolfgang König of South Pool for an album, this time a compilation called "Women With A Voice" . The album is displaying the broad spectrum of styles and generations of female South African singers : from Mbaqanga to Jazz , from Maskanda to modern Afro Pop, from highly promising newcomers on the scene to legendary divas - a tribute to the South African music scene in its creatively outstanding multicomplexity. The album range from South Africas new vocal star Simphiwe Dana to well - known divas as Sibongile Khumalo, Busi Mhlongo, Letta Mbulu or Gloria Bosman and of course also includes Mama Afrika Miriam Makeba. First media feedback is remarkable, Germanys "Jazzthing" praises the well edited liner notes of the booklet and trendsetting worldmusic radio station "Multikulti" in Berlin will present the album as "CD of the week" at the beginning of 2007 .
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Simphiwe Dana received "Rising star" Award at AVO Session Basel |
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South African singer Simphiwe Dana, one of the very few great new artists of the year 2006 , received an award as "Rising star 2006" at the last show of her fall tour at the AVO Session Basel. Performing at a double bill with Miriam Makeba, she presented a stunning mixture of jazz, gospel, soul and jive, the concept which already brought her debut album "Zandisile" into the Jazz - & World music charts of Europe. Congratulations !
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New Carmen Cuesta-Loeb album will be released this fall |
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The longawaited new release of Carmen Cuesta-Loeb, her first album since 2003, will be released in October already. It is entitled "You Still Don't Know Me" and the likable singer will be accompanied among others by Michael Brecker, Till Brönner, Will Lee, Matt King, Wolfgang Haffner and her husband Chuck Loeb, who also co-produced the album.
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Tingvall Trio confirmed for Reeperbahn Festival |
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The Swedish - Cuban - German Tingvall Trio, one of the hottest newcomer bands of the jazzscene was just confirmed to perform at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg on September 21st. After receiving raving reviews for their debut album "Skagerrak" in media across Europe an appearance at the three-day-trend festival together with artists like Deichkind, Nild Landgren, Tocotronic, Blumfeld, Karl Bartos or Blumentopf is a must.
The day before TT is already appearing at Popkomm Berlin, followed by festival gigs in Aalen,Hamburg and a radio live broadcast at Radio Bremen.
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German Jazz Charts and German World Music Charts for Simphiwe Dana |
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After a series of well received concerts in Switzerland, Austria, Italy , Spain and Germany Simphiwe Dana established in the European World Music Charts in the fourth month. On top she is still moving up in the German Jazz Charts at No.15 and the German World Music Charts at No.10 in August.
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Simphiwe Dana enters European World Music Charts |
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Perfect timing. One week after the release of her debut album "Zandisile" South Africa's rising star Simphiwe Dana entered the European World Music Charts at No.4 . Mid of June she starts her first European tour , performing in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Switzerland and among other dates in Germany at the football worldcup fan festivals in Hannover and Berlin before highlighting the One World - TV - event at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on July 2nd. Her unique mixture of Jazz, Pop, Hip Hop and African Roots elements is for sure one of "the" musical surprises of the year.
Already confirmed are more prestigious concerts at the festivals in Aalen, Leverkusen and Basel next fall.
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We have moved our office |
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The new address is:
SKIP RECORDS
Henriettenweg1
20259 Hamburg
Phone, fax and e-mail are the same as before
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Luka Bloom tours Germany big way in 2006 |
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The Irish artist Luka Bloom, who entered again the frontrow of the singer/songwriter genre with his most recent album "Innocence" last fall, will perform Germany in September 2006 as extensive as never before. The tour starts on September 9th at Räucherei Kiel and will end in Berlin at the Postbahnhof on September 28th. (See details on tour dates page).
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