Formed in 2016, 'Samurai Kip' is a jazz/funk/soul inspired band from Liverpool, unique and fresh, but somehow familiar. The band originated with the subtle garage jams of singer Aidan Mcguire on string-board and voice box and drummer Michael Lindberg, joined later by Michael’s older brother, Jamie Lindberg on bass guitar. With a few live performances at The Lunatic Fringe and the Smithdown Road festival under their belts, in 2016 they looked to take the next step with the release of their first single, 'Lunatic's Web', a song with elements of the 'Coral', an acoustic track with languid melodies and dreamy scouse vocal harmonies. Following the release of 'Lunatic's Web', they then added jazz sensibility to their line up with trombonist, Charly Reed. Although playing shows with some of their true North West jazz contemporaries such as 'Tetes De Pois' and 'The Blurred Sun Band', their music captures the favour of more than just the jazz enthusiasts as they found themselves playing to sell-out crowds across the Liverpool music scene, flirting with the likes of 'SPQR', 'Eyesore & The Jinx' and the Eggy Records crowd. Their gigs quickly led to respect from further afield, helping 'Samurai Kip' bring bands from all over the country to Liverpool's much beloved Sound Food and Drink venue, running their own sell-out shows and collaborating with the likes of Wavertree Worldwide.
As well as their live shows, in 2018 their wide appeal had not gone unnoticed online either with their 2nd and 3rd singles 'Ode to Moonlight' and 'Mr Void' racking up close to 40,000 Spotify streams. Their style could best be described as the point where Jazz and Rock meet, as there are folk inspired lyrics plus real rock elements, but an adherence to jazz style improvisations and obedience to funk and groove really set them apart from other bands.
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| Bassist Jamie Lindberg |
At Outpost, 77 Renshaw Street in December 2019, they performed a tight set and really engaged with a small yet knowledgeable audience. With a sound dripping in Mersey splendour, their songs are seemingly all about the moon and its ever nightly presence and the trombone sound gave the performance an extra ingredient of finesse, which the group already rightfully own. Aiden again certainly had a presence, placid and stoic yet riveting all the same.
They were beginning 2020 with a stream of new material with a new single ‘Daybreak’ set to be released on the 28th of February, a fitting beginning to the four-month journey that the band were about to take their followers on. This track was due to be followed in due course by three more releases: 'Smoke', 'I Reflect' and 'Over My Head'. However these releases were postponed by the Covid-19 lockdown, so in April 2020 Jamie instead launched the interactive Quarantine Collaborative to make new music via Soundcloud. He explained to Liverpool music blog 'Getintothis', "The project was an idea I had when I was quarantined at my parents' house following an operation. I wasn't around anyone, and only had a limited amount of music gear and recording equipment, but I still really wanted to make music. So I just thought 'why not create something that everyone can get involved in, and make something positive out of these negative times?' The idea is that I'd get someone to send me a drum track that I'd then cut up and add chords to, to make up a 'base track', and that's then re-uploaded to Soundcloud for people to download and add their parts to, then they email their parts back to me, without knowing what anyone else has done, and I arrange them all and create a song out of it." December 2020 saw the release of another single 'I Reflect'.
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