BOZAMBIQUE
BoZambique is a 5 piece band from Bozeman, Montana that plays percussive centric melodies driven by world-infused rhythm and blues. Their music is inspired by Afro Pop, Highlife, Cuban & Brazilian song and dance.
BoZambique covers songs that came out of Ghana and West Africa between the late 60’s and early 80’s. The music there from this time period was originally inspired by the Delta Blues, R&B and american rock and roll of the 60’s and 70’s that migrated through the UK and, in turn, was adopted by West African musicians mixing the electric sounds of the guitar, organ and brass with the organic African rhythms played on traditional drums. Since many of these rhythms originally emanated out of Africa and traveled with slavery through the Caribbean, Cuba and Brazil, BoZambique adapts the feel of their our own North American rhythm and blues with the dynamic feel and grooves of mozambique, rhumba, son, mambo, samba and bossa nova into originals as well as other latin jazz standards. With a variety of time signatures and tempos played on cajon, wood block, bells, congas, tambora, shakaree, you will hear smooth melodic lines played on sax and flute backed by rhythm and leads on electric guitar supported down low, surprisingly deep and warm, by a ukulele bass. These are the sounds of BoZambique.
Loren Block: Uke Bass
Aaron Banfield: Guitar
Matt Sloan: Saxophone
Jelani Mahiri: Percussion
Doug Wales: Congas
