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Gilles Peterson is a broadcaster, DJ and record collector who’s played a pivotal role in supporting forward-thinking underground music in the UK and beyond over the past three decades. He hosts a weekly primetime Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music that’s one of the broadcaster’s most popular music shows, helms independent record label Brownswood Recordings, and is the founder of online radio station Worldwide FM. Throughout his career, Peterson has promoted the new frontiers of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music. (Peterson, 2014)

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I first heard BBNG on the Kendrick Lamar album "To Pimp A Butterfly", I thought it was cool that someone was bringing jazz to young people in a new way. Their album IV was on regular rotation, more and more recently. The latest release "Talk Memory" is amazing. The band are really exploring their jazz roots while maintaining the groove. The added production elements really lift it too. The guitar solo at the end of "Beside April" is a face-melter.

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I first discovered Yussef Kamaal in a pre-covid Melbourne underground Jazz-Doof. I was watching Giles Peterson fill an auditorium with energy via acid jazz, there was a small record store selling vinyl next to the bar. The salesman insisted I had to listen to their album 'Black Focus'. He was right, that album changed how I viewed music, the groove, the rhythmic complexity, the subtle chords full of texture and colour. It is one of the reasons I am now at SAE and of of the reasons I'm putting hours per day improving my guitar playing. I will not be another 'guy with a guitar', my musicianship must surpass the ordinary.

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Radiohead are one of my main musical idols. I've only recently become a super fan, going back through the discography and finding amazing gems I didn't know existed. From a musical technically point of view, I like to see where they came from and where they are now. The different albums reflect their growth as individual musicians and as a band. I truly look up to them as forward-thinking musicians and artists and regularly dissect their work for insight into their brilliance.

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Verocai was influenced by many classical composers including  Bach, Villa-Lobos, Chopin and Debussy. (Red Bull Music, 2015)

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Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 1 by Evgeniy Rudakov

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"I listen to Zappa, '69, '70, '71 maybe. I listen Frank Zappa, he play wah-wah guitar and give me influence".
Arthur Verocai (Red Bull Music, 2015)

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Arthur Verocai was influenced by western bands including The Beetles, Frank Zappa and Stan Kenton(Red Bull Music, 2015).

Zappa is a personal favourite of mine, in particular, I love the older jazzy stuff like 'Blessed Relief".

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Arthur's first record was with a Bossa Nova singer Leny Andrade.

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Bluesette - Leny Andrade & Romero Lubambo Live at WBGO benefit

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Ghostface Killah & BadBadNotGood - Sour Soul

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It was through collaboration that BBNG discovered Analog recording. In a session with Frank Dukes in New York while working on their collaborative album with Ghostface Killah their love of old instruments and collecting keyboards began. (McDermott, 2016)

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"It's just fun to interpret contemporary music, and we all listen to contemporary music, you know, 'cause we're contemporary people. "
Matt Tavares(NPR, 2016)

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"Improvising as a band has always been a positive experience. We've been playing together for such a long time that expanding on the form of the songs and reading each other to create peaks and valleys int he energy level is second nature."(Paramasivam, 2019)

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The band relies heavily on interaction and improvisation in their shows. (GRAMMY Pro,2015)

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"If you learn your instrument in depth, you can kinda express yourself in a natural way."
Matthew Tavares (GRAMMY Pro,2015)

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BBNG credit their improvisational skills to their deep understanding of music.

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It was an honour for the band to work with a big influence of theirs on their latest release 'Talk Meaning'(Mullin, 2021).

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BBNG have worked with numerous other artists including, Thundercat, Kaytranada, Little Sims, Ghostface Killah, Charlotte Day Wilson,  Arthur Verocai, Kendrick Lamar and Tyler, The Creator. In their words, "Collaboration is one of the keys to moving forward"(GRAMMY Pro, 2015).

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BADBADNOTGOOD x Tyler, The Creator - Seven

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Thundercat (feat. BADBADNOTGOOD & Flying Lotus) - 'King of the Hill'

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The whole band attended 'Jazz School' and sees improvisation as a key component to creating their sound(GRAMMY Pro, 2015).

Yussef Kamaal also relied heavily on improvisation in the writing of "Black Focus"

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BadBadNotGood & Leland Whitty - Earl - Live at The Hoxton NXNE (June 14, 2012)

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When the band started out they took a free jazz approach to covering songs by hip hop artists like Gucci Mane and Kanye West

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Ghostface Killah - Daytona 500 (Feat. Raekwon & Cappadonna) (Official Music Video)

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Moving to Athens, Georgia at 18, Stipe was inspired by how much they impacted the course of contemporary music(Rolling Stone, 2021).

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B52s   Planet Claire FULL HQ Restored best version!!

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In particular John's song "Bennie And The Jets" showed Stipe how much was possible in song writing(Rolling Stone, 2021).

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Elton John - Bennie And The Jets (Official Music Video)

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Artists like The Monkeys, The Banana Splits and The Archies were some of Stipe's inspirations for his more "Fruity Pop Songs for Kids".
Michael Stipe(Rolling Stone, 2021).

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The Monkees - Daydream Believer (Official Music Video)

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Young recalls, in an interview with Rolling Stone, when he was writing early instrumental pieces his idol at the time was Hank B. Marvin, Cliff Richard's guitar player in The Shadows(Crowe, 1975).

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Cliff Richard & The Shadows - Nine Times Out Of Ten (Cliff! 16.02.1961)

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Young has known Mitchell since he was 18 and is inspired by her raw approach to song writing(Crowe, 1975).

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Joni Mitchell - Woodstock (Live In-Studio 1970)

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Young's first time singing in front of an audience was covering Beetles songs “It Won’t Be Long” and “Money (That’s What I Want).”(Crowe, 1975)

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"There's a song called Bloom on King of Limbs which is totally inspired by Dilla"
Collin Greenwood-Bass Guitar-Radiohead(Lobenfeld, 2019)

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"Beautiful, expansive music like Alice Coltrane, we used to come on stage to Alice's music, connections between that and J Dilla, stuff where theres repetition, chords don't change that much but sounds and texture change within it, thats all stuff that's inspired us."
Collin Greenwood-Bass Guitar-Radiohead(Lobenfeld, 2019)

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John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme" Deep Dives

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Directed by Diego Huacuja T.
Produced by BASA
Basa Producer: Melissa López Ley
Storyboard & Artwork: Diego Huacuja T.
Lead Animation and compositing: Eduardo Moya
Animation: Eduardo Moya and Alberto Bala
Produced by Obsidian
Executive Producer: Doug Klinger
Head of Production: Anna Heinrich
Post Production Coordinator: Maddie Ogden
Director's Reps: Doug Klinger & Undine Markus at Reprobates
 
Writer: Ashley Kahn
Narrator: Greg Tate
Executive Producers: Ken Druker, Oliver Schrage 
Commissioner/Producer: Steven J Gottlieb
Special Thanks: Ravi Coltrane, Michael Frisch

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Flying Lotus - More (feat. Anderson .Paak) [Official Video]

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A Love Supreme - Alice Coltrane (full length album version)

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"Before I discovered R.E.M. in the mid-eighties, I was listening to bands like Japan. Music to kill time with. Then I discovered R.E.M. and it turned my life upside down. Michael Stipe was singing about his flaws and weaknesses, and that it is okay to be weird. I was weird. And through his songs Stipe spoke to me, “It’s okay, you don’t have to justify yourself to anyone.” Shortly after that, I signed up for art school and started to take making music seriously."
Thom Yorke(Yorke, 2019).

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R.E.M and in the particular the genius of Michael Stipe was the reason Yorke went to art school and started taking music seriously.

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R.E.M. - Electrolite (Official Music Video)

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“I immediately fell in love with his music,” said Yorke. “He has that soft vibrato that nobody else has. More than that, it was his attitude toward the way he laid songs down. It’s always about laying down whatever is in your head at the time and staying completely true to that, no matter what it is.”
Thom Yorke (Wonsaponatime, 2012)

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Thom (Radiohead's lead singer) is constantly going back to Neil Young's albums to remind himself that songs can be simple and beautiful. Young's singing and song writing style is constantly influencing Thom.(Wonsaponatime, 2012)

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Yussef's father, while living in New York, was exposed to artists like Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sun Ra. He brought this music home to the UK and Yussef. Yussef Dayes also recognises Idris Muhammad and The Mahavishnu Orchestra as significant influence. (Red Bull Music, 2017)

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"We've grown up on grime, garage, broken beat, drum 'n' bass and house – there's too many other new elements in there to just say it's jazz. I just call it music from London, because that's what it is, undoubtedly."
Henry Wu(Hall, 2018)

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Yussef Kamaal, whether they knew it or not, pioneered this new London Jazz sound. Yussef Kamaal made the link between Broken Beat, the club scene and all the different elements of Jazz and in doing so opened the door to this new sound for people around the world (Embley, 2019).

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Yussef Kamaal are a duo comprised of Yussef Dayes (drums) and Henry (Kamaal Williams) Wu, both from South London, came together after a Live 'Boiler Room' session. The album "Black Focus" was the product of many live shows where the set list would read only of two chords. (Yussef Kamaal, 2016)

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BADBADNOTGOOD(BBNG) forged their way into playlists of streaming apps by fusing hip-hop beats and vocals with the harmonic complexities of Jazz(Bruce, 2021). Early works collaborating with MF Doom, Ghostface Killah and Tyler, the Creator fused these sounds to critical acclaim.

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Director Camille Summers-Valli
Exec Producer Emory Ruegg
Producer Maddy Perkins
DOP Maximilian Pittner
Stylist Tati Cotliar
With Chopova Lowena
Music Video Rep Andre Reid-McKinley
Production Company Somesuch x Division

MONUMENTAL FX
Post-Producer: Germain Robin
Editor: Antonin Bronès
Assistant Editor: Simon Tristant

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VFX Supervisor: Colin Journée
VFX Coordinator: Mathieu Jussreandot
2D artists: Isabelle Tchoungang, Adrien Avenel, Romain Bedouet

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Colourist Nicke Cantarelli
Colourist-producer Therése Misgena

METRO PRODUCTIONS

Producer Masho Tevdorashvilli
1st AD Sopo Parjiani
Production Company: Metro Production
Executive Producer: Sandro Gabilaia
Head of Production: Maia Gurabanidze
Producer: Masho Tevdorashvili
1st AD: Sopo Parjiani
Production Manager: Tato Pantsulaia
Casting Director: Tina Khizanishvili

Special thanks to Division
Chopova Lowena

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Radiohead are one of the most respected acts in the history of British rock music, having garnered commercial success and numerous critical accolades over the span of a thirty-year career(Clément, 2019).

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Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi (From the Basement)

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"That's[Jazz Fusion] had a big influence on my playing, it's got the technicalities of it but it but also involves the groove, the vibe and energy, and you can hear that in the records. When I approach a drum set I take a leaf out of their book and keep it moving."
Yussef Dayes(Red Bull Music, 2017)