Rob Scott::Afrophonic

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Born in Fulham, London, songwriter, musician and producer Rob Scott's music incorporates broken beats, jazz funk and afro cuban rhythms, all accompanied by lush string and horn arrangements and soulful vocals. His first single 'Fallin' will be out this summer on Sunshine records with remixes by Champion Soul and Domu. Also available this summer will be two tracks ' Passion' and 'Havana Affair' . Both of these tracks were written by and feature Rob on vocals, Fender Rhodes and acoustic guitar and can be heard on the forthcoming Champion Soul album, ' Excursions' available on the Lifeline record label (Japan). Also in the pipeline are two superb broken beat tracks ' Freedom Fear ' and ' Anything You Like' which feature musicians Jonathan Maron ( Groove Collective ) on bass, Satch Hoyt on flute and Fabio morgera on flugel horn and M. Edwards on backing vocals.

Rob Scott's music career spans well over fifteen years beginning in the mid 80's. After escaping suburbia and squatting in Brixton for three years, Rob would frequent the london underground nightclub scene of clubs like The Raw, Whitetrash, Gossips, subterranea and the Pig, along with the live jazz music scene of clubs like 606, Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz cafe when it was still only just a hole in the wall in Islington. Along with six other friends they formed the 999 crew and began organising and promoting various club nights and parties at Crazy Larry's, Underworld in Camden and 41 Beak street which is where Rob began spinning records, basically because in those days "we couldn't afford to pay a DJ for something we could do ourselves ! ". At about the same time Rob started writing songs with Elizabeth Troy, a 15 year old chanteuse with an incredible voice whom he had met whilst he was working at a shoe shop in Carnaby Street. Liz would later find huge top ten chart success with tracks 'Crazy Love' and 'Sincere' with 2 step mogul, M J Cole. Rob and Liz would spend hours holed up in his flat in Battersea writing songs together at the piano, but it wasn't until Rob joined the now defunct acid jazz collective, Action People playing fender rhodes that their endevours would really take form. When the band needed to fill the void left by previous vocalist Rio Hendricks, Rob suggested Liz Troy, who's mature vocals sat perfectly against the bands funky landscape sound. Action People signed to the independent Revco record label and would eventually release an acid jazz album in 1993 called 'JAZ, JAZZ!, JAZZ?'. During this period Rob was working at PRS and met loads of people in the record biz and ended up doing television, video, dancing and vocal chores for artists like Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates), Gwen McCrae and D'Influence. Relocating to New York in the mid 90's, Rob started playing live gigs with his guitar on the downtown singer/songwriter circuit, with residencies at venues like CBGB's gallery, the Living Room and Downtime. Independently releasing a debut cd 'Cyclone' under the moniker of Durry (his middle name), he recruited the talents of Teena Marie / Prince protégé Jill Jones, Adriana Kaegie from Kid creole and the coconuts and guitar virtuoso Chris Whitley. After being introduced to deep house and broken beat by friend and dj Vanessa Beck, Rob's musical direction took a sharp 90% turn. Inspired by the new - found genre, Rob returned to dj-ing at clubs like Moomba, Halo and Joe's Pub and began to concentrate on writing music from a more rhythmic standpoint. Producer and friend Andrew Brown had heard some of the material that Rob was working on and he himself was in the process of putting together tracks for the forthcoming Champion Soul album, and so asked Rob to submit some material for their project. On completing that, Rob has signed to austrian label Sunshine Enterprises for his next project.

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	photo by chris scott rob scott Born in Fulham, London, songwriter, musician and producer Rob Scott's music incorporates broken beats, jazz funk and afro cuban rhythms, all accompanied by lush string and horn arrangements and soulful vocals. His first single 'Fallin' will be out this summer on Sunshine records with remixes by Champion Soul and Domu. Also available this summer will be two tracks ' Passion' and 'Havana Affair' . Both of these tracks were written by and feature Rob on vocals, Fender Rhodes and acoustic guitar and can be heard on the forthcoming Champion Soul album, ' Excursions' available on the Lifeline record label (Japan). Also in the pipeline are two superb broken beat tracks ' Freedom Fear ' and ' Anything You Like' which feature musicians Jonathan Maron ( Groove Collective ) on bass, Satch Hoyt on flute and Fabio morgera on flugel horn and M. Edwards on backing vocals. [HOME] Rob Scott's music career spans well over fifteen years beginning in the mid 80's. After escaping suburbia and squatting in Brixton for three years, Rob would frequent the london underground nightclub scene of clubs like The Raw, Whitetrash, Gossips, subterranea and the Pig, along with the live jazz music scene of clubs like 606, Ronnie Scott's and the Jazz cafe when it was still only just a hole in the wall in Islington. Along with six other friends they formed the 999 crew and began organising and promoting various club nights and parties at Crazy Larry's, Underworld in Camden and 41 Beak street which is where Rob began spinning records, basically because in those days "we couldn't afford to pay a DJ for something we could do ourselves ! ". At about the same time Rob started writing songs with Elizabeth Troy, a 15 year old chanteuse with an incredible voice whom he had met whilst he was working at a shoe shop in Carnaby Street. Liz would later find huge top ten chart success with tracks 'Crazy Love' and 'Sincere' with 2 step mogul, M J Cole. Rob and Liz would spend hours holed up in his flat in Battersea writing songs together at the piano, but it wasn't until Rob joined the now defunct acid jazz collective, Action People playing fender rhodes that their endevours would really take form. When the band needed to fill the void left by previous vocalist Rio Hendricks, Rob suggested Liz Troy, who's mature vocals sat perfectly against the bands funky landscape sound. Action People signed to the independent Revco record label and would eventually release an acid jazz album in 1993 called 'JAZ, JAZZ!, JAZZ?'. During this period Rob was working at PRS and met loads of people in the record biz and ended up doing television, video, dancing and vocal chores for artists like Daryl Hall (Hall and Oates), Gwen McCrae and D'Influence. Relocating to New York in the mid 90's, Rob started playing live gigs with his guitar on the downtown singer/songwriter circuit, with residencies at venues like CBGB's gallery, the Living Room and Downtime. Independently releasing a debut cd 'Cyclone' under the moniker of Durry (his middle name), he recruited the talents of Teena Marie / Prince protégé Jill Jones, Adriana Kaegie from Kid creole and the coconuts and guitar virtuoso Chris Whitley. After being introduced to deep house and broken beat by friend and dj Vanessa Beck, Rob's musical direction took a sharp 90% turn. Inspired by the new - found genre, Rob returned to dj-ing at clubs like Moomba, Halo and Joe's Pub and began to concentrate on writing music from a more rhythmic standpoint. Producer and friend Andrew Brown had heard some of the material that Rob was working on and he himself was in the process of putting together tracks for the forthcoming Champion Soul album, and so asked Rob to submit some material for their project. On completing that, Rob has signed to austrian label Sunshine Enterprises for his next project. [HOME]
	afropsycopaths Afropsycopaths are the music production team of Andrew Edward Brown and Rob Scott with forthcoming vinyls from artists like the late, great new york vocalist K'million, black spoken word lyricist / poet Karen Gibson-Roc and songstress Kate Dwyer. [HOME] dj playlist top twenty 1. james mason - rhythm of life (sure) 2. teena marie - black rain (pre-release white label) / irons in the fire (motown) 3. ellen mcilwaine - we the people (polydor) 4. minnie riperton - adventures in paradise ( capitol) 5. roy ayers - you send me (polydor) 6. swing out sister - live at the jazz cafe ( polygram) 7. meshell ndegeocello - plantation lullabies ( maverick) 8. creation rebel - starship africa 9. rufus feat. chaka khan - ask rufus (mca) 10. merry clayton - emotion (mca) 11. hefner - residue ( inertia ) 12. omar - best by far ( oyster ) 13. neon phusion - the future aint the same as it used 2 b (laws of motion) 14. n.e.r.d - in search of ......(virgin) 15. donald byrd - places and spaces (blue note) 16. minnie riperton - come to my garden (grt) 17. linda lewis - lark (reprise) 18. don blackman - don blackman (arista) 19. dennis brown - how could i leave ( prestige) 20. joni mitchell - dry cleaner from des moines (reprise) [HOME]
	downloads + links sunshine records http://www.sunshine.at chris scott http://www.chrisscott.org mary edwards http://maryedwardsmusic.com swing out sister http://www.swingoutsister.com [HOME]
	contact robert scott afrophonic@mail2black.com [HOME]
	© 2003 rob scott