Mr. SumSum

Hello friends, We'll be doing our last Hamilton show of the year (and probably won't be back until next summer) tonight at Pepper Jack's. And we'll be in good company: the marvelously talented Ember Swift has incredible chops and sings from the heart, a heart filled with dreams of social justice, citizen power and community-building. Just the way we like it. Come on down. Peace and blessings /Johan PS. Our new album "Deep Sleep" has arrived! It in our hands and will be in stores as of October 30. The CD release party on Halloween night October 31 in Toronto will be a crazy costume party and should be a night to remember. More about that soon. To hear something from the new album, which is a collaboration with Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet, check out the samples at www.myspace.com/mrsomethingsomething

i wish more like toronto to edmonton and back. aah, sweet transcanada highway...

Thanks a lot to all of you who have kept supporting us over the past three years. Hope to see you on a dancefloor somewhere soon. Peace and blessings /Johan For immediate release Toronto, Ontario, Canada February 7, 2007 Contact: Pierce Gladhan / World Records worldrecords@gmail.com / 416-535-3865 [blurb] Mr. Something Something's sophomore album The Edge has been nominated for a JUNO for World Music Album of the Year, alongside releases from African Guitar Summit, Bia, Lubo Alexandrov, and Monica Freire. 2006 was another great year for Toronto afrobeat collective Mr. Something Something. The band was picked up by Festival Distribution in Canada and Bomba Records in Japan. The group also had the pleasure of welcoming JUNO Award winner Richard Underhill and his fellow Shuffle Demon Perry White into the Something Something family, and veteran world music organizer Derek Andrews took the group under his wing. CBC Radio One recorded the band live on two occasions, and CBC Radio host Matt Galloway picked The Edge as the most underrated recording of 2006, adding that the charismatic crew is "even better live than on disc".[/blurb] The Edge received a lot of airplay on CBC Radio and college radio stations across the country, and the critics were enthusiastic about the release. EYE Weekly's Ryan Watson calls it "an infectious blend of percolating polyrhythms, layered horn punches and hot-stepping basslines." In the Vernon Morning Star Dean Gordon-Smith writes that the music is "suggestive of hot climates, late-night clubland communion and head-swiveling propulsion." EXCLAIM!"s David Dacks states that The Edge has "broadened the scope of Afro-grooves", and in the same magazine Shain Shapiro writes that Mr. Something Something's high-energy live shows have "proved that they rank with any Afrobeat in the world today." Aside from wildly energized and unpredictable live shows, the band is becoming increasingly well-known for its green politics and environmental activism. The band is planning an "eco-tour" of Canada in the summer of 2007, playing in such unconventional venues as organic farms, eco-villages and sustainable co-housing projects to highlight communities that are taking steps toward sustainability and smaller ecological footprints. "It is our intent to educate ourselves to a better and more sustainable lifestyle, ecologically, economically, spiritually and socially", says frontman Johan Hultqvist. "Hopefully this will inspire others to do the same." Over the last two years the charismatic crew has toured relentlessly in Canada, playing more than 200 shows to enthusiastic crowds at clubs and festivals from coast to coast. Along the way they shared the stage with top Canadian artists such as Sarah Harmer, Martha Wainwright, The Trews, Joel Plaskett, Justin Rutledge, and many more. The band is currently in the studio working on their forthcoming third album, a collaboration with the explosive, Nigerian spoken word artist Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet, due out in the late spring of 2007. Mr. Something Something will be recording two concerts with Ikwunga The Afrobeat Poet in front of a live audience at The Trane Studios in Toronto on March 9 and 10. The Edge and Mr. Something Something's selftitled debut album are distributed by Festival and available in all major and well-sorted record stores across Canada, and internationally through CDBaby and dozens of other online outlets. __________________________________________________________________ www.mrsomethingsomething.com www.myspace.com/mrsomethingsomething__________________