BEN WESTBEECH

May 10th, 2007 Posted by Dougal

DOWNTOWN SAMBA-JAZZ AND INNER-CITY SOUL FROM TITA LIMA MEETS BEN WESTBEECH (HOSTED BY GILLES PETERSON):

An astral Bristolian wunderkind – for whom ‘music’ equals grubby funk, muscular jazz, lambent hip-hop and inner-city soul – multi-instrumentalist and elysian groove seducer Ben Westbeech has just dispatched his debut album, Welcome To The Best Years Of Your Life, via Gilles Peterson’s brand new Brownswood Recordings imprint. (Indeed, Westbeech’s debut single, ‘So Good Today’, was the label’s inaugural release).

Westbeech’s vivid lyrical palette is readily gaining global props from the likes of Gilles, Fabio & Grooverider and Pete Tong: his uplifting soul treatises (‘Get Closer’ and ‘Dance With Me’), offset brooding jungle jams (‘Taken Away From’ and ‘Pusherman’), to propagate a brilliant, hedonistic portrait of young urban Britain.

http://www.myspace.com/benwestbeech

BEN WESTBEECH MEETS TITA LIMA HOSTED BY GILLES PETERSON

Thursday 26 July
Guanabara, London, 5.00pm BOOK NOW

Friday 27 July
The New Picket, Liverpool, 7.00pm BOOK NOW

Saturday 28 July
The Classic Grand, Glasgow, 10.00pm BOOK NOW

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