Songwriters Tippy Agogo and Bill Bourne team up with virtuoso guitarist Madagascar Slim and veteran drummer Michelle Josef on a new recording
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Amoeba Collective is a certified organic project featuring ten original songs that are a brilliant and compelling blend of Blues, Rock, World Beat Hip Hop, Electro-Acoustic with a dash of Country. Sharing the songwriting and lead vocals equally, Tippy and Bill constructed a variety of songs that serve as vehicles for a multi-genre improv romp that exudes a sense of celebration and conveys a global sensibility.
Madagascar Slim contributes his inimitable Hendrix/Malagasy guitar to the colourful melee and drummer Michelle Josef ties it all together with rock solid grooves. Tom Mennier's wonderful piano and Donato Scipioni's fat bass fill out the fusion feast!
"Audiences have responded in various ways, some were comatose in their seats... others dancing like banshees." - The Local, Sunshine Coast Jazz & Entertainment Society
November 15
The Vat - Red Deer, AB
November 16
The Ironwood - Calgary, AB
November 17
Avenue Theatre - Edmonton, AB
About Bill Bourne
Bill was raised in a musical family in rural Alberta. When he was two years old, he was known to sleep behind the piano at country dances. His parents played dance music in community halls in beautiful farming country. The love of nature and of music and of people gathering for celebration has been with him for his whole life.
A multiple Canadian Juno Award winner, Bill has received international acclaim for his recordings and live performances. A mainstay on the international roots scene, life on the road is reflected in Bill's music - powerful rhythms and soulful songs, steeped in World Beat, Blues, Cajun, Celtic, Folk, Flamenco, Funk, Poetry and more.
Tippy Agogo Bio
As far as is known, Tippy Agogo has made four official albums between 1988 - 2008; ecclectic with global, experimental, folk, rock, dance and pop influences - each album, like the shows, have no two songs the same, resembling the live act. On his website, tippyagogo.com, these albums are listed, plus his work with such diverse artists as: SNFU, Sarah McLachlan, Cassandra Complex, Twilight Circus Dub, Legendary Pink Dots and so forth. He is credited as helping start some careers of famous Canadian artists, such as the Smalls, and based most of his work out of Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal, plus some notable European cities - Antwerp, Hamburg and Bergen.
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