Events

Passing Clouds is happy to present a one-off Saturday night special….not to be missed!!

DOWNSTAIRS
Bongo Kanny Band
Live roots rock reggae
http://www.myspace.com/bongokanny

Plus D.J. Judge
Hip Hop / Electronica / Reggae
http://www.myspace.com/djjudge

UPSTAIRS
DJ Gabriel Ceasefire (Roots Manuva)
Hip hop / reggae / soul
www.myspace.com/cornishwaters

About Bongo Kanny:
Bongo Kanny a.k.a. Aaron Kedar is a singjay artist that is fast gaining recognition and prominence within the Roots Reggae scene. Combining social commentary with a refreshing personal analysis, Kanny is a gifted artist with a radical, militant edge to his music. He is possibly the first of a new breed of UK Rastafarian artist writing most of his own music and is capable of the type and pace of delivery that will leave his predecessors cold in their tracks.
His first release ' Green ' recorded by Ruff Cutt made a significant impact with Dancehall music fans and emerged later on the ' Ruff Cutt 2000 ' compilation CD. A former member of the Suncycle Crew A. Kedar is featured on their 2002 album. He has recorded numerous Dub plates and specials for various sound systems around London and is highly rated by other London and Jamaican DJ's artists. Aaron Kedar is set to blaze a new trail in the annals of Reggae music folklore all of his own. He was a guest at the Riverside Studios in London, where he performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The only other artist to have done this being Reggae legend John Holt. He was also a supporting artist with Foxy Brown/Babysham at The Stratford Rex where he exploded onto the stage and tore through a set that captivated and excited the audience. Truely a force to be reckoned with.

About Gabriel Ceasefire
Gabriel, the man behind Cornish Waters, started getting his musical kicks from an early age; by 10, the young south Londoner was experimenting with edits, using tape machines and assorted pots & pans, before boosting his set-up with guitars, turntables and eventually, a casio keyboard… Fast forward a few years and Gabriel is plucked from the London sound-engineering college he had been attending to go and work as in-house studio-engineer for the legendary folk/blues singer, John Martyn. This proved to be a slightly turbulent, but ultimately fruitful experience, as John & producer Norman Dayron encouraged him to experiment and broaden his range of inspirations, took him on tour throughout the UK as their live sound-engineer, and introduced him to the mind-bending production techniques of Lee Scratch Perry & the raw blues of Howlin’ Wolf.. After working on Martyn’s ‘The Church With One Bell’ album, Gabriel returned to London, where through an association with the Scratch Perverts’ Tony Vegas, he found himself hanging out at Angeltown Studios with a young Rodney Smith, aka Roots Manuva, which in turn led to Gabriel recording many of Roots Manuva’s demo tracks in a studio that Gabe had by that time set up in Bermondsey. Later the two were to work together on many of Rodney’s side projects for his self-funded label, Banana Klan, including several albums’ worth of material by gifted reggae singer Ricky Ranking. While running the Bermondsey studio, Gabriel started doing scoring and post-production work, including working with UK soul and drum & bass favourite, Diane Charlemagne (of 52nd Street and Goldie’s ‘Timeless’ album fame) on a major advertising campaign, and co-scoring the cult underground skateboarding documentary ‘Rollin’ Through The Decades’. During this time, Gabriel also established the ‘IQ Productions’ banner, and started promoting and DJ-ing at a hugely successful regular night at the West End’s Ruby Lounge which went on to run for 4 years. All these years spent cultivating his craft and composing and recording pretty much day-in, day-out has meant that Gabriel has accumulated a vast library of incredible music of huge breadth and variety, taking in all the influences he’s picked up along the way, from hip-hop to roots reggae, jazz, dub, blues, you name it. All with a real depth and warm organic quality missing from much of today’s music. To date, frustratingly little of this fine music has seen the light of day, but that’s about to change. Recent releases like the Roots Manuva starring ‘Look To Myself’ and ‘Walkin’ (feat. Duchess) (which was the lead track on the Gilles Peterson compilation ‘Brownswood Bubblers 2’) are but the tip of the iceberg.. You will be hearing plenty more about Cornish Waters in the years to come..