Wamba | en

Chumbawamba were an English musical group formed in 1982 in the Leeds squatting community. They have, over a career spanning nearly three decades, played punk rock, pop-influenced music, world music, and folk music. Their vocal anarchist politics exhibit an irreverent attitude toward authority; the band have been forthright in their syndicalist, pacifist, communist, mutlicultural, and feminist social stances. The band are best known for their song “Tubthumping.” Other singles have included “Amnesia,” “Enough Is Enough” (with MC Fusion), “Timebomb,” “Top of the World (Ole, Ole, Ole),” and most recently, “Add Me.” On 7th July 2012 Chumbawamba announced their impending breakup...

www.wambaband.com www.facebook.com/wambaband www.twitter.com/wambaband www.youtube.com/wambaband www.wambaband.reverbnation.com www.souncloud.com/wambaband .

This acoustic improvised music trio first performed in Stratford-upon-Avon, November 2008, and undertook a Jazz Services UK tour in 2010. Dave Kane (bass) has worked with some major figures on the British creative music scene, including Elton Dean, Evan Parker, and Paul Dunmall. He's released a critically-acclaimed album called Eye of the Duck on the Edition Records label, and has a duo with the trumpeter Alex Bonney which performed with Ken Vandermark in 2008. Joshua Blackmore (drums) is in the BBC Jazz Award-winning Curios trio with Tom Cawley and Sam Burgess. Joshua is also in a trio of his own...

Corey Mwamba creates music using vibraphone, dulcimer, electronics and small instruments. His music contains elements of jazz, folk from different countries, and electronica. Corey was born in Derby and has lived there most of his life, with stops in London, Mufulira in Zambia, Southampton and Birmingham. He has a Chemistry degree and is virtually self-taught in music, having made the decision to take up vibraphone in his late teens after seeing a picture of Orphy Robinson in a book and taking five lessons with the orchestral percussionist Lewis Dyson. Mwamba's first playing experiences in music were with totally improvised music...