KYLA BROX album launch
+ Deep Blue Sea
+ Mojo Preachers
KYLA BROX‘s voice remains a stunning example of the soul singer’s art: turning up the heat by degrees, lulling and charming before unleashing emotional catharsis, and blurring the distinction between pleasure and pain like the soul greats of old. Whether fronting the mighty Kyla Brox Band, or harnessing undiluted soul power in a duo with musical and life partner Danny Blomeley, Kyla Brox is without doubt the most authentic UK blues and soul singer of her generation.
Born in Lancashire in 1980, she was exposed to the passion of Afro-American music at first-hand from her blues singing father, Victor. She traces her interest in singing from age three, partly from a desire to be closer to her charismatic but distant dad. She was the late product of the marriage between Victor (Caiaphas in the original cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar) and Annette (the ‘maid by the fire’ in the same), and, unlike her elder sisters, gifted but non-professional singers, she didn’t spend her formative years in the back of a touring van under a cloud of cannabis smoke.
The line of development can be traced through Kyla’s six albums. From the 2003 debut Window, where the tone is summery and romantic, to the acoustic Grey Sky Blue (2009), where hopes and longings are freighted with deeper emotions, via the blues/soul calling card Beware (2003), the band triumph Coming Home (2004) and the more introspective Gone (2007). The songs have developed too: the team of Brox/Blomeley have grown into a potent songwriting force, writing in the blues/soul idiom with an individual, nicely personal touch.
DEEP BLUE SEA
“It’s blues Jim, but not as we know it. The quality of the playing alone would put this gig up there with the best but this is also great fun; the band obviously enjoy themselves and audiences will always pick up on that. Great performances and big smiles all around the room – that’s a good combination for a great night.” Allan McKay, Music Riot
Website: https://www.deepblueseamusic.co.uk/
MOJO PREACHERS
Emotive and authentic progressive blues with a heartfelt stage presence to match.
The Mojo Preachers are a well-seasoned, experienced and far from conventional talented band of creatives who specialise in conjuring a melodiously intricate and original sound, that while rooted in the blues has its mixing spoons in many pots, some of which are; fusion blues, psychedelic swamp, funk, and rock. Prepare to be moved, funked, rocked and irresistibly haunted!
Website: www.mojopreachers.com