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Celestial Strut

by Bosq

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Nearly two years after his debut album, Bosq Y Orquestra De Madera, burst onto the scene with its varied rhythms and moods, Bosq is unleashing another batch of music for the dancefloor.

Not content to produce one style of music, Bosq takes you through disco ("Bad For Me". "Celestial Strut"); Latin rhythms ("Ella", "Cumbia En Bahia"); and Afrobeat ("Bounce And Pull Up", "Take Over", "Pay The Price") with ease. Thinking of each album like a DJ set, he's always determined to inject many flavors but still keep a cohesive sound.

Helping to craft the album, collaborators such as Nicole Willis, Jesus Pagan Y Conjunto Barrio, and Kaleta chipped in with lyric writing, vocal duties, and riveting soundscapes. Recalls Bosq, "Jesus and the Conjunto Barrio helped me to re-record all my parts into live ones which gives it a greater authenticity and better musicianship. I then took those parts to rework and modernize them." Bosq even co-wrote lyrics, a first for him, with his girlfriend on "Found Your Love." To add even more flair to the album, Caserta, someone Bosq greatly admires for being able to bring so much sonic depth, mixed several tracks on Celestial Strut.

Having already received extensive coverage through outlets like Wax Poetics, OkayAfrica, Remezcla, and Sound Color Vibration as well as DJing around the country at nightclubs and even Boston's Museum Of Fine Arts, he's traveled extensively to locales such as South America and Puerto Rico since his last album to find new inspiration and perspective. "Everything influences you consciously or subconsciously. So this album definitely has a sense of my travels and spending time in other cultures, whether on the road or with my girl and her family. All that Latin culture immersion has opened up my cold Northeast heart a lot!" he openly expresses. Expanding outside of the Boston metro area has opened his eyes to a greater appreciation for his music when he plays his tracks in his DJ sets.

Celestial Strut is a confident record based on musical and life experience that finds Bosq less constrained and focusing more on musical textures than genre conformity. Although he contends that there is so much more musically that he wants to learn, his love for creation and the learning process continues to push him to produce some of the most exciting dance and internationally-flavored wax dishes this decade.

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released October 16, 2015

Bosq - piano, rhodes, organs, synths, bass, percussion, drums & programming, arrangements

Featuring: Kaleta - vox, guitar, addtl percussion, horn arrangements (4,8,9) Nicole Willis - vox (5), Evan Laflamme - sax (1,2,3), Yuki Kanesaka - keys, synth (11) & bass, piano solo (5), Jacobo Velez - clarinet, guitar, sax, percussion (1), Jesus Pagan - co-producer, lead & backing vox (3), Eric German - all percussion (3), Luis Morales - bass (3), Jose Sanchez - piano (3), Ray Gonzalez - trumpet (3), Ramon Vio Rivera - engineer (3), Constanza Leal - vox (6), Jimmy Riley - vox (7), Serge Gamesbourg - bass (7), Mark Usher - Guitar (7,10), Angeline Morrison - vox (10), Zem Audu - sax (4,8,9) Matthieu Gnonlonfoun - trumpet (4,8,9) Sade Emmanuel - back up vox (4,8,9), Gbenga Wise - back up vox (4,8,9), Steve Haney - percussion (4), Andrew Cowie - Sax (8), Tom Noble - guitar (5). Bad For Me, Change, Bounce & Pull Up, and Take Over mixed by Caserta.

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Bosq Antioquia, Colombia

Bosq has been tirelessly exploring the intersections of Afro-Latin music with Disco, Funk, Reggae, House and Hip Hop for years. With three full albums released on Ubiquity Records, bosq y orquesta de madera & celestial strut, an EP on Soul Clap Records Tumbalá and an LP recorded with the Candela All-Stars in Puerto Rico San Jose 51 the fruits of those labors are beginning to show in abundance. ... more

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