Sugarlicks Label
Sugarlicks acts as a hothouse of creative musical minds, inspiring artists and recording them at the valve-sound sugarlicks studio, to create the assured and progressive new sound of Pacific Soul. The studio and label are located in the Southern Hemisphere's most culturally diverse city, Auckland New Zealand.
We are the direct lifeline to your hit of Kiwi soul ... our distinctive sound is created by the use of analog valve sound equipment, for that warm lush soul sound. As a collective sugarlicks includes producers, musicians, vocalists, writers and video & graphic partners. We are family and in this family its all about the music. Pacific Soul live & direct.
Sugarlicks will take this soul free flowing across the globe so the World can see what music sounds like when made in paradise.
The skin of a drum, the softly spoken word, the expression of a belief, the translation of urbanism onto the pads of an mpc .... because talk won't cook rice ...
Fireside chat with Isaac Aesili & Brother J
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This is a radio show recorded for Redbull in Germany on our EU tour in 2007. Still makes good listening .... |
People In Your Neighbourhood
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Hi all Members of the Sugarlicks family have been working hard over the last few months with the British Council New Zealand, on one of their main events for 2009, called "People In Your Neighbourhood". You can read more about the project here. The project is part of the British Council's global initiative to help create diverse and inclusive cities, and follows on from previous work in 2008 in this area. PIYN involves aspiring ethnic urban performers working together on the project. You may have seen the posters in 6 different languages posted around Auckland city over the past week. We are honoured to have members of the esteemed UK string collective Urban Soul Orchestra as part of the project, which includes a recorded album and live shows in Auckland and at Womad Taranaki. USO (Urban Soul Orchestra) - if anyone remembers Soul2Soul, or more modern outfits like Nightmares on Wax, Incognito, and Nitin Sawney - you will recognise the unmistakable sound of USO's string lushness. The album itself has been recorded as a creative commons project, and as such, you can download the full album here. For the show, we have 25 places left on the doorlist for the Auckland event, so please reply promptly if you would like one of these.
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