Over the last few days, we've been running a little featurette on Red & Black Music's 4 projects. 💛❤️💜💙

With February being Rio Carnival month, it's worth mentioning Brazilian music has always been close to our heart 💚and in recognition of this, 3 of our projects have Brazilian alter-egos!

Diáspora Brasil adds cool cuts from the tropics 🌴 to the Latino fire of Diáspora 🔥 specialising in the myriad of styles emerging from Brazil from Rio's Samba and laid back Bossa Nova to Bahia's Baião and Samba-Reggae, blending Brazilian influences with jazz, funk and Saudade.
Have a listen to our takes on "Mais Que Nada" and "Lambada" on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/redandblackmusic/sets/diaspora-brasil

Fiesta Latina adds Festa Brasileira to the mix - dubbed "The Instant Brazilian Beach Party" 🥥🏝 a Caipirinha of classic and popular Brazilian tunes... 🍹🎹

Rory Bossa Nova takes the jazz south of the border. Its sax, guitar and cajon-based lineup focus on jazz and we released "Em Balança" (www.rorymusic.co.uk/em-balanca) 🎷
We've recently put a couple of new tracks on SoundCloud, 2 beautiful songs "Nostalgia Da Bossa" & "E Nada Mais" originally written by Brazilian composer Durval Ferreira:
https://soundcloud.com/redandblackmusic/sets/bossa-nova

Oh, did we mention Diáspora Brasil has a new home? 🏠 You can check out our info, music and photos here:
www.diaspora.co.uk/brasil 🇧🇷

#brasil #bossanova #saudade #balanca #samba #sambareggae #mpb #jazz #funk #festa #tropical

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Music of Brazil

​Ladies and gentlemen​, Diáspora is delighted to announce that after almost 10 years since we launched www.diasporamusic.co.uk in March 2010, we're moving the band's website to a brand new home: www.diaspora.co.uk

Don't worry, the old link will still work. Like what we did with Phasma, we're setting up a nifty little 301 re-direct. ​Clever, huh? However, there will be a little bit of downtime this evening and tomorrow morning on our website while it's moved across. See you on the other side 😉🚀

We're very excited to welcome visitors to our new home. 🏠

​www.diaspora.co.uk

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Over the last few days, we've been running a little featurette on Red & Black Music's 4 projects. 💛❤️💜💙

Last but not least, over in the blue corner 💙Rory is our longest-running project. Established in 2008 at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music and offering quartet, trio, duo and solo options, the ensemble has expanded their repertoire to 300+ songs spanning a wide range of genres as well as performing original compositions.

London-based saxophonist and jazz ensemble. Rory Jazz is the piano, bass and kit jazz quartet format established in 2008. Rory Bossa Nova is the guitar and Cajon acoustic Bossa Nova format established in 2010.

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​Highlights over the years have included hosting jam sessions at O'Sheas Irish Bar, Manchester and SE11 Sessions at the Tea House Theatre @ Tea House Theatre, jazzing up Liverpool John Lennon Airport, entertaining the punters at Stratford Olympic Park and Epsom Downs Racecourse and releasing Em Balança (www.rorymusic.co.uk/em-balanca) for our dear friend Julian.

Check out our WEBSITE and FACEBOOK PAGE
www.rorymusic.co.uk
www.facebook.com/rorymus

#jazz #blues #swing #bossanova #dance #electronica #quartet #trio #duo #solo #greatamericansongbook #jam #marmalade

Over these few days, we're running a little featurette on Red & Black Music's 4 projects. 💛❤️💜💙

The soul band. 💜 Think Whitney. Think Aretha.

Phasma is a universal word. It's all about music as a fundamentally human form of expression, and the power of music being able to reach out and touch people on a personal level. A person's soul can be their essence, that part of their being that can soar to the stratosphere.

Phasma's sound pulls from the grassroots of blues and gospel, the musical manifestations of that essence, galvanises itself in the mettle of jazz and funk and sings from its guts, echoing a cry of euphoria that is felt the world over.

Sign up to the FACEBOOK PAGE and check out our videos of us performing with Burgandy Williams at PizzaExpress Live
https://www.facebook.com/phasmamus/

Check out our WEBSITE
www.phasma.co.uk
Have a listen to our recordings www.phasma.co.uk/listen.html mixed and produced by the one and only John Davies
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#soul #soulmusic #souldivas #funk #RnB #jazz #acidjazz
#rhythm #rhythmandblues #blues #roots #gospel
#soultotheuniverse #musicfromtheheart #humanexpression #powerofmusic #apparition #affirmation #groovetestament #positivemessage

Like A Bird is a song about a someone who is reincarnated as a bird. He playfully invite his soul mate to follow him into a lush canopy and experience the joys, blessings and liberties of avian life up in treetops looking down on creation. He suggests that they migrate, without need to hibernate and to mate within their nest atop the trees. He's not just a bird that’s there to be preyed upon. His liturgy is a celebration of Mother Nature’s offerings. He is compatible with his match, who knows how to ruffle his feathers in all different weathers, but he pleads with her to relinquish him from her natural selection so that they can live together liberated and free.

Meanwhile, our bassist, Will, is off to Cuba in 2 weeks for another top-up on Cuban life, culture and dancing. We hope he will bring us some sunshine back to this isolated island (from the re-integrated island) ☀️

Over these few days, we're running a little featurette on Red & Black Music's 4 projects. 💛❤️💜💙

Next up ❤️ Diáspora's baby band 👶 Fiesta Latina has been bringing freshly squeezed Latin vibes to bars, restaurants and house parties all around the UK since 2013!

An instant coffee alternative... ☕️

Fiesta Latina is the smaller sister act and “instant coffee” alternative to the filtered coffee beans of its big brother Diáspora, each of the musicians taking the lead with their respective elements – the rhythms of the percussion, the harmonies of the piano, the melodies of the trumpet and the lyrics of the vocals – creating an explosive spark of musical interplay, with an emphasis on live dynamic interaction.

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Highlights include our Havana Club & Pub tour, supporting Diáspora at The Jazz Cafe Camden, recording at Purple Room Studios, starting up the Fiesta Latina North with Vela Vox and Luigi in Manchester and entertaining the armed forces at Baker Barracks and Britannia Royal Naval College

The Latin house party experience... 🛋🏠🎉

Providing a quick and easy salsa solution 💃 the band has been a favourite with house parties, product launches and promotional and media work as well as weddings and intimate occasions.

¡Chevere!
Daniela / Rory / Harry
🇨🇱🇬🇧🇨🇴
xxx

Sign up to the FACEBOOK PAGE www.facebook.com/fiestalatinamusic

Check out our WEBSITE
www.fiesta-latina.co.uk

#fiesta #fiestalatina #instant #instantcoffee #latincoffee #houseparty #salsa #sabroso #cuba #latin #jazz

Diáspora Brasil is the alter-ego of Diáspora, a separate setup specialising in the myriad of styles emerging from Brazil; from Samba and Bossa Nova to MPB and Sertanejo, from Partido Alto to funk.
Diáspora Brasil adds cool cuts from the tropics to the Latino fire of Diáspora. ?
Specialising in the myriad of styles emerging from Brazil from Rio's Samba and laid back Bossa Nova to Bahia's Baião and Samba-Reggae, blending Brazilian influences with jazz, funk and saudade.
Check out our takes on "Mais Que Nada" and "Lambada" @ SoundCloud...#redandblackmusic
#samba #bossanova #brazilian #saudade #balança #worldrhythms #funk #mpb
https://soundcloud.com/redandblackmusic/sets/diaspora-brasil
www.facebook.com/diasporamusic
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Over the next few days, I'll be running a little featurette on Red & Black Music's 4 projects. 💛❤️💜💙

First up 💛 the big band Latin explosion that is Diáspora has been going for almost 11 years!! 😱

Started at the RNCM - Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, the 12-piece lineup (4 vocalists, 3 percussionists, 3 brass, piano and bass) lends itself to an expansive big band sound without losing the dynamism and spark of a small group and combines sensuous vocals, sophisticated horn lines and explosive percussion solos.

Now based in London, Diáspora has sold out The Jazz Cafe on 2 occasions as well as performing around the country gaining critical acclaim from some of the UK's top salsa promoters and dancers.

Last year we released Latin fusion album "Supersalsanova" and this year we're excited to be working on our Cuban dance album (title TBA). 🎧

We're so immensely proud of what the band has achieved. Bring on the next decade!! 🎤🎹🎸🥁🎺🎷💃

Check out our updated website www.diasporamusic.co.uk, sign up to the FACEBOOK PAGE www.facebook.com/diasporamusic and prepare to be united in the Latin beat. Boom Boom!! 💥💥

#diaspora #unitedinthelatinbeat #salsa #latin #latinjazz #timba #salsacubana

www.diasporamusic.co.uk
www.facebook.com/diasporamusic 🎵

A small child’s imagination is easily captivated, and for Tom it was the sonorous colours of the brass on the many CDs that his parents used to play that got him excited every time. With an ancestry of brass-banders it was in the blood, and seeing bands playing around Frampton Cotterell was what made him say, “when I grow up, I want to play the trumpet."

And here he is laying down some screaming lines on Diáspora's upcoming album. Escalera Al Infierno ("Stairway To Inferno") the song referenced in the above is a somewhat extreme song. It goes from talking about magma pumping out of the Earth's core, rising through the mantle and breaking through to the crust in Verse 1 🌋 to majestic snow-covered mountains with ice, crystals, air and water in Verse 2 🏔

​Well, this is a song discussing the geology of our planet. A song of ice and fire indeed. 🔥❄️

​Diáspora's Blog is incorporated in here!
www.redandblackmusic.co.uk
> Blog
​> Diaspora

​20s night 🎩🤠🎷#fatsamsgrandslam #speakeasy 👯‍♀️🍸🎶 @ Kensington, London 🎹

Phasma's Blog is incorporated in here!
www.redandblackmusic.co.uk
> Blog
​> Phasma

Blogs for our Latin projects will be recreated here in due course...

“Rory created a wonderful ambience at our dinner party with his saxophone playing. Chilled and relaxed whilst still striking a lively, upbeat note, the choice of repertoire was perfect for our occasion.”
Yulia, London (Mayfair), September, 2018

​"Perfect jazz saxophonist.. Truly royal."
William, London (Mitcham), December, 2019

​"The saxophonist captivated everyone's attention and heart! An afternoon and evening to be remembered!
Thank you so much!"
Daun, London (Mitcham), December, 2019

"On behalf of myself and all the guests we thoroughly enjoyed the music and the performance you gave, the music ushered in the most beautiful presence and experience of the creator, to say the least a class 1 act. I will certainly use your services and recommend you for any future engagements and events. I'll let you know when my next event is, you are hired for life."
Cynthia, London (Mitcham), December, 2019

​Diáspora photo shoot @rea_qunta @tonyrubet @roryduffy27 @trumpet_tom @joe.fenning @cineviewstudios @redandblackmusic 🎤🎷🎤🎺🎤🎺#diaspora #unitedinthelatinbeat #2ndalbum #oshun #oshun🌻 #shango #shango👑 #shangó #obatala #obatalá 📿#rumba #rumbacubana #salsa #etsymarketplace #qamaorishas 👗📷📸#comeondown #originalrebels 🤩🤩🤩 @ Cineview Studios - Film Studio Hire London

​Los cuatro elementos @danigallini @rea_qunta @roryduffy27 @tonyrubet #yemaya #yemaya🌊 #oshun #oshun🌻 #obatala #obatalá 🌪#shango #shango👑 #agua #tierra #aire #fuego🔥 #filosofia #loscuatroelementos #loscuatroelementos_ #thefourelements #fourelements #foursquare #royalfour #theroyalfour #santería #santeria #santeriacubana #orishas #losorishas 🧖‍♀️🧖‍♀️🧖‍♂️🧖‍♂️ @cineviewstudios @alma_angelini #etsymarketplace #qamarorishas #originalrebels #theoriginalrebels 💃🏻💃🏻🕺🕺

​Fables of Faubus in Farringdon with @lillielina_penya & a Will 🎹🎸🎷

​"We were very happy with the performance and felt it added a lovely ambience to the champagne reception. Everything went very smoothly. Many thanks again for providing the jazz trio."
Susie, Cobham, Surrey, October, 2019