SHOGUN ORCHESTRA
World Fusion • New Zealand
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SHOGUN ORCHESTRA delight in mixing unusual influences from around the globe. Aside from Caribbean music they have explored African forms such as Afro-beat, Highlife and Ethio-Jazz whilst Jennifer Zea brings to the group a distinctive South-American salsa flavour.
SHOGUN ORCHESTRA are a Wellington super-group originally formed to perform a charity concert at the San Francisco Bathhouse at the time of the Haitian earthquake in 2010. Composer and arranger Lucien Johnson had spent three months in Haiti working in a theatre production and so had a direct connection with the tragic events. The band were enthralled by the music, a mixture of Haitian traditional songs and original music by Johnson and so decided to record an album on Economy Records.
The personnel of SHOGUN ORCHESTRA are mature musicians at the peak of their careers (the band includes members of Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Black Seeds and other well known groups) including the Venezuelan
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