TC & The Groove Family: First Home

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Soaring horns, jangly highlife guitars, Latin-Caribbean polyrhythms and rousing, socially/politically-charged lyrics collide in pulsing afrobeat and UK jazz conversation on First Home, the debut album by Leeds-raised 10-piece, TC & The Groove Family, forthcoming this June 2022 on the Gilles Peterson-approved, Bristol based label, Worm Discs.

Produced by Nubiyan Twist’s Tom Excell (Onipa, Ego Ella May, Nerija) and following in the footsteps of fellow Leeds-grown talents, Submotion Orchestra and Necktr, TC & The Groove Family’s First Home melds a divergent and international pool of influences 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.

Comprising members who learnt their chops performing across Leeds’s thriving live-music circuit, the band 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.

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.
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released June 10, 2022

All tracks written and performed by TC & The Groove Family.
Track 1 featuring string arrangements by Jed Holland.
All tracks recorded and engineered by Tom Excell at Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield.
All tracks produced and mixed by Tom Excell.
All tracks mastered by Ben Shepherd at Optimum Mastering.
Artwork & Design by Patch D Keyes

TC & The Groove Family are:

Tim Cook – Drums
Paolo Mezzoni – Percussion
Mikey Scott – Guitar
Nath Sayers – Guitar
Beth O’Lenahan – Bass
Grifton Forbes-Amos – Trumpet
Hannah Mae-Birtwell – Tenor & Baritone Saxophone
Max Purcell-Burrows – Trombone
Pariss Elektra – Vocals
NikNak – Turntables

Weight	230 g
Genre	Electronic,Funk / Soul
Style	Afrobeat,Latin
Condition	Mint (M)
Format	Vinyl