Pariss Elektra is once more on vocals duties for the new single Duende, a psychedelic and introspective rumination on love and peace from TC & The Groove Family, whose ferocious debut LP First Home, full of soaring horns, jangly highlife guitars and Latin-Caribbean polyrhythms, comes out next month.
Duende is the latest offering from TC & The Groove Family’s upcoming debut album First Home. Produced by Nubiyan Twist’s Tom Excell (Onipa, Ego Ella May, Nerija) the LP melds a divergent and international pool of influences (as heard in their fiercely energetic live sets), whilst also telling the story of a group of friends returning to the city where they once assembled, to chant down the powers that be and further widen the British jazz sound through a distinct 2022 Leeds filter. The group will perform at festivals, We Out Here, Shambala, Wilderness, Outlook UK, and Green Man this summer 2022.
Comprising members who learnt their chops performing across Leeds’s thriving live-music circuit, TC & The Groove originally formed as the brainchild of drummer/percussionist and Midlands-raised, Tim Cook. All but one of the group studied at the renowned Leeds College Of Music and through their communion on the dancefloors/streets of Leeds’ famous Subdub, Leeds West Indian
Carnival and at Cosmic Slop parties, TC & The Groove Family’s mixed-gender and multicultural unit bring together a stylistic range that encompasses Soulful house/UKG-inspired vocals, King Tubby, post-punk/indie and DJ Shadow. Inviting such a disparate group of musicians might have seemed random at first but what was to follow was an unmatched sense of comfort and familiarity.
It was so exciting to bring this group of people together, who all have their own gift and sound. First Home does not only represent the location of Leeds where we first met, but a state of being for us. We know each other inside out. That close connection we all have playing together, being together, that is our First Home. ~ says Tim.
Recorded over the course of a hot early summer’s week in Sheffield at Yellow Arch Studios, First Home blends dexterous Latin percussion, Central African psychedelia and UK soundsystem culture across eight exchanges of cross-genre exploration, augmented by Tom Excell’s finessed production and studio engineering.
TC & The Groove Family LIVE (UK Dates)
27th May – The Globe, Cardiff
28th May – 93 Feet East, London
29th May – Elderflower Fields Festival
1st June – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds TICKETS AVAILABLE
2nd June – Lost Horizons, Bristol
3rd June – Boiler Room, Guilford
4th June – The Brook, Southampton
30th June – El Dorado
1st July – Outlook
22nd July – Secret Garden Party
23rd July – Great Get Together
24th July – Bluedot
28th July – Kendal Calling
29th July – Deershed
30th July – Farmfest
4th August – Good Society
7th August – Wilderness
20th August – Greenman
25th August – We Out Here
26th August – Shambala
27th August – Camper Calling
28th August – Moovin
3rd September – Smugglers