GOOD NEWS LETTER #11 NEW ALBUM RELEASE!!!!
GOOD NEWS LETTER #11
GIVE A LITTLE
New Album Out Now!
Yes! My new album Give a Little is out and available on all streaming platforms for your listening pleasure. This latest offering is years in the making. These songs have taken root along the many roads I have traversed: from London to Miami; Jamaica to California; with the final production, mixing and mastering all happening at my Home Bass Studio here in Los Angeles. Along the way I have been honored to work with some of the best musicians around, including legendary Jamaican riddim section masters Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. More than amazing musicians, we have become friends and family.
It has been a long journey and now I can exhale and release this music for your listening pleasure. I cannot say it has been easy! I do not think any artistic endeavor ever is. At the creation stage there is joy, excitement and ecstasy. In the middle phase there is editing and refinement; constructive analysis of what can improve on in the work that has begun. As we all know with any project - the finishing is the hardest part.
All of these songs were self produced, with a notable exception. I have performed most of these songs over the last decade and a half with various band members across the globe. All of you beautiful musicians and friends of mine are forever in my heart and soul. I am forever grateful for these memories and sounds we have shared together. These songs were brought to life live on stage before they were crystallized as final recordings and all of you are intertwined in the vibrations contained within the music.
To you the listener, I pray this music gives you a little something. In return, I humbly ask you to pass it around.
ALBUM CREDITS:
1.Give A Little
Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitars / bass / saxophones / percussion / Fender Rhodes /
DJ Johnson: drums
Ayo Awosika: backing vocals
2. Sweeter Groove (produced by Gidon Shikler / co-produced by Maestro and Duvid Swirsky)
Recorded at Anchor Studios - Kingston, Jamaica and Home Bass Studio - Culver City, CA Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitars / percussion
Robbie Shakespeare: bass
Sly Dunbar: drums
Robbie Lyn: keys
Duvid Swirsky: backing vocals / guitars
Jason Gamer: trumpets / backing vocals
Zack Lodmer: clarinet / backing vocals
3. Dixie Highway
Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitar / saxophones / percussion / Fender Rhodes
DJ Johnson: drums
Hugo Vera Solari: bass
Cuni Besic: electric guitar / horn arrangements
Ayo Awosika: backing vocals
4. Sink or Swim
Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitar / drums / percussion / melodica / Fender Rhodes
Hugo Vera Solari: bass
5. In These Times
Gidon Shikler: vocals / drums / bass / guitars / keys / percussion
6. The River
Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitars / drums / percussion / keys / saxophones / melodica
Hugo Vera Solari: bass
7. Soon Come
Gidon Shikler: vocals / drums / guitars / saxophones / percussion / Fender Rhodes
Hugo Vera Solari: bass
Cuni Besic: lead electric guitar
8. Giving You the Boot
Gidon Shikler: vocals / guitar / percussion / melodica / Fender Rhodes / drum programming
DJ Johnson: drums
Hugo Vera Solari: bass
Cuni Besic: lead guitar