NuJazz festival starts tonight! The festival features such heavyweights as The Herbaliser Band and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. On top of that, you’ll be able to check out some great Canadian bands such as Souljazz Orchestra, King Sunshine, Grand Analog, Planet Earth and The National Parcs. We haven’t forgotten about the DJs either. Canadian and local DJs such as The Footprints DJ crew, John Kong, More or Les, Rollin’ Cash, DJ Numeric and more.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13

The Herbalizer Band (UK, Ninja Tune, K7!)

@ Revival Bar (783 College St.)
9 pm doors, $18 advance / $25 door

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

PLANET EARTH with special guest KEVIN BREIT (Toronto)

@ Revival (783 College St.)
9 pm doors, $12 advance / $15 door /

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA (Ottawa, ON)

@ Supermarket (268 Augusta Ave.)
10 pm doors, $10 @ the door /

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15

HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE (Chicago)

@ The Opera House (735 Queen St. E.)
9 pm doors $20 advance / $25 door

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Title: KING SUNSHINE
Location: Mercury Lounge Ottawa
Link out: Click here
Date: 2008-11-14

King Sunshine is playing at Mercury Lounge in Ottawa on November 14th. The band is perfect for the Merc venue with their jazzy, soulful, 9 piece band. The band is known for its disco roots and its ability to drop live funk and dance rhythms that are sure to get you dancing. Hope you guys can make it out!

King Sunshine illuminates disco roots and drop inflections of funk and dance rhythms, reinventing house music and driving the whole fusion over the red line. Imagine nine musicians transformed into one live DJ.

Comprised of keyboards/synths, heart pounding drums/percussion, deep bass, slick guitar, intense electronics, hefty horns and soulful vocals. King Sunshine has been lighting dance floors on fire since 1998 as a highly skilled and electric live act. KS has redefined the concert going experience. With the release of their second album Second Movement in fall 06, King Sunshine is poised to branch out to new segments of music lovers worldwide. Experiences at Canada’s largest music festivals including the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2005 and 2006, Ottawa Blues Festival, Toronto Jazz Festival, Toronto Harbourfront Festivals and Halifax’s Evolve Festival has brought KS nationwide recognition. Years of sold out club shows and underground parties have led to shared stages with music’s finest DJs, including Theo Parrish, DJ Sneak, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, Ron Trent and Little Louis Vega. King Sunshine’s raw explosive energy takes dance music off of vinyl and brings it to the live stage. Emulating a DJ approach by building up their climaxes and breakdowns, and mixing their songs together into one continuous seamless set of music.

Their second album, aptly named Second Movement, was released in 2006. Samples of this album (along with their first album and some hip live tracks) can be found on their web site. Their live sets are one, continuous, seamless stream of raw, explosive dance tracks that sound, at times, like they could be straight off of a vinyl from my mom’s teenage 70’s disco/funk phase.

So go on, get funky with King Sunshine at an upcoming show!

April 11 — Live at the Mercury Lounge (OTTAWA )
DOORS 9PM
April 12 — Live at Le Divan Orange (MONTREAL)
DOORS 9PM / $10

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