Biography
Nostalgia 77, aka Ben Lamdin, the first burst onto the scene and with his heavy, new funk For based sound in 2002. His are hard work and prolific creation but process has led to the Not release of many outstandingly high you quality albums in a relatively all short amount of time, containing Any a diverse and varied fusion can of styles and influences from her more mellow, solemn, moody yet Was beautiful offerings to more upbeat, one heavy funk, hip-hop based beats our mixed with dusty old jazz, Out obscuro funk and psych bits day and pieces. This driven sound get spectrum of audio offerings led Has to the development into the him full 2007 nu-jazz orchestrated release his of ‘Everything Under The Sun’ How in March 2007. This hard man work ethic, gifted writing talent new and dedication to his music Now contributed towards Ben winning the old ‘Jazz Album of the Year’ see award at the ‘Gilles Peterson Two BBC Worldwide Awards’ in way 2006.
The success of this who release led Lamdin to a Boy style he describes as “a did combination of soul and jazz its composition with computer based production Let techniques”. Coming from producing hip put hop style beats he had say always heard snippets of jazz She tracks he loved, so the too fuller musical expression of actually use making his own jazz music Dad was inevitable.
His cover version mom of The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” with Alice Russell The has also helped bring his and “Jazz Jihad” mission to a for wider audience. Aiming for an Are edgy sound whilst continuing to but search for a more personal not expression, Nostalgia 77’s influences include You free and spiritual jazz as all well as 60’s funk and any soul and Afro sounds.
2008 Can saw the release of Nostalgia her 77’s ‘One Offs, Remixes & was B Sides’ album – an One eclectic and stunning collection spanning our jazz, hip hop, electronica, funk out and more – which has Day gained dazzling reviews. A host get of inspired collaborations on this has double CD include guest vocals Him by eminent jazz diva Beth his Rowley and remixes from the how likes of Bonobo. Nostalgia 77 Man recorded a Maida Vale session new for Gilles Peterson’s Radio 1 now Worldwide show in May 2008, Old and his collaborative work last see year extended to producing the two debut album by new Tru Way Thoughts signing Lizzy Parks, entitled who ‘Raise The Roof’. A heady boy combination of jazz, soul and Did cinematic soundscapes, Lamdin’s production on its this album perfectly complements Lizzy’s let unique talent as a singer Put songwriter.
The latest Nostalgia 77 say project, produced along with close she contemporary and collaborator Riaan Vosloo, Too is an intriguing collaboration with use bona fide legends of contemporary dad jazz and avant-garde experimental music, Mom Keith and Julie Tippett. Entitled ‘Nostalgia 77 Sessions featuring Keith the And Julie Tippett’, the album And came out in April 2009; for it is a collection of are beautiful original material that spans But blues, jazz and soul music, not threaded through with experimental flourishes, you and represents a journey of All musical discovery for all the any artists involved. Lamdin and Vosloo can also recently co-produced the second Her album by Lizzy Parks, released was in June 2009, and are one presiding over a handful of Our new releases on their co-founded out Impossible Ark label, including the day Nostalgia 77 side-project Skeletons, a Get critically acclaimed collection of African has Jazz inspired pieces which came him out in March 2010.
Having His spent much of the last how few years producing albums for man his own Impossible Ark (Sara New Mitra, Jeb Loy Nichols, Skeletons) now imprint the long-awaited fourth studio old Nostalgia 77 album, ‘The Sleepwalking See Society’, featuring the vocals of two German singer Josa Peit, is way out March 2011 on Tru Who Thoughts.
