Live shows in the UK/Europe includes... MdCL (MPC3000/rhodes/keys) with guests including the likes of Bembe Segue, Tawiah, Sharlene Hector, Richard Spaven (drums - Ty/PPP), Thomas Dyani (perc), Jason Yarde (horns) and more.
Other musicians around the world involved in the live shows include Lil John Roberts (drums), Sammy Figueroa (perc), Lanu (guitar), Cherie Mathieson (vocals), Tomokazu Sugimoto (bass), Saori Sendo (percussion), Miguel Fuentes (percussion) and Nobuaki Fuji (drums)
Check The Politik - the new unit featuring Mark and Bembe Segue together... debut longplaya out now!
Influences
Herbie Hancock, Ahmad Jamal, J Dilla (RIP), George Duke, IG Culture, Wayne Shorter (especially Native Dancer), Miles Davis, the UMMAH, Dwele (the demos), Supa Dave West, Bembe Segue, Mizell Brothers, Creed Taylor, Quincy Jones, Dego (4Hero), Lonnie Liston Smith, D'Angelo, Patrice Rushen, Teddy Riley (the early days), Bugz in the Attic, Messian, Doug and Jean Carn, Parliament/Funkadelic, Donny Hathaway, James Brown (RIP), Kaidi Tatham, Don Blackman, Charles Lloyd, Pharoahe Monch, Pino Palladino, Hi-tek, The Neptunes, Danilo Perez, Stevie Wonder, Jack Dejohnette, Kenny Kirkland, Joe Henderson, Kareem Riggins, Bahamadia, Cut Chemist, Slum Village, RAMP, Leon Ware, Minnie Riperton, Prince, Harvey Mason, Lenny White, Tribe Called Quest, Chaka Khan, Restless Soul, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Roy Ayers, Bill Summers, Prince, Timbaland, John Coltrane, Michael Henderson (playing bass with Miles), Philip Woo, Cesar Mariano, Lauryn Hill, Elis Regina, Edu Lobo, McCoy Tyner, Leon Ware, Banda Black Rio, Earth Wind & Fire, Chocolate Milk, Common, Harry Whitaker, Bernard Wright, Flora & Airto, Elvin Jones, Nuyorican Soul/Kenny Dope/MAW, Fela Kuti, Tania Maria, Q-Tip as Kamaal the Abstract, Marvin Gaye, Edu Lobo, Jobim, Pleasure, Philadelphia International, Dr Dre, Chucho Valdez, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Larry Young, Brazilian, Afro Cuban... and nuff more - to be continued
Sounds Like
check these albums:
Soul, P-funk, Jazz, Hip Hop, House, Broken Beat, Latin all in the blender....
FREE DOWNLOAD!! - The MdCL album Six Degrees. Written, recorded, produced in New Zealand Dec 1998 - Feb 1999 after a year long trip around the world visiting the musical hotspots of Cuba, NYC, London and Tokyo. Released in NZ May 1999 and worldwide on CD and 2LP May 2000. Just a shame it's so damn hard to find now... Enjoy! :) Read the story behind the album...
FREE DOWNLOAD!! - The only official remixes from the Six Degrees album were handled by Phil Asher (Restless Soul) and DJ Spinna. Spinna's mix was licensed to the Cafe Del Mar series and sold over 700,000 copies worldwide.
REMIXERS:Download the vocal and flute parts for Day by Day from Six Degrees and post your remixes online!
mail-order CD and vinyl: (paypal and credit cards)
Freesoul Sessions Vol 1 CD [Antipodean] £6.99
Volume 1 is here! 11 tracks of broken jazz/soul improvised live at the Jazz Cafe London and Notting Hill Arts Club, MdCL with Bembe Segue, Vanessa Freeman, Jason Yarde, Richard Spaven, Kaidi Tatham and more (paypal and credit cards)
Tide's Arising CD [ABB Soul/Antipodean] £9.99
Tide's Arising 2LP [ABB Soul/Antipodean] £11.99
VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN JAPAN - JOURNEY 2 THE LIGHT with Bembe Segue, Jason Yarde and Richard Spaven performing You Don't Know What Love is and Voices Whisper....
VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN FRANCE with Bembe Segue, Tawiah, Jason Yarde and Richard Spaven performing Relaxalude and Syndrome....
VIDEO: MdCL + BEMBE LIVE IN FRANCE improvised live n direct, Freesoul Sessions...
VIDEO: MdCL LIVE IN JAPAN with Sharlene Hector, Bembe Segue, Cherie Mathieson and Richard Spaven performing covers of Charles Earland's Leaving this Planet and Duke Ellington's Caravan.
VIDEO: Daylight feat Tawiah @ Southport Weekender May 2007...
VIDEO: Freesoul Sessions Live @ Jazz Cafe - March 2007... straight improvised mayhem...
'...the man behind a million great tunes' - Gilles Peterson/Radio 1 Worldwide [UK]
'Call it nu-jazz, call it nu-house, call it future-jazz, in fact call it what you want, I'm sticking with the words awesome and genius' - Wax Magazine [UK]
'...a Herbie Hancock for the new millennium' - Montreal Jazz Festival [CANADA]
I'm a producer, beat maker and keys player, one half from NZ and the other half from Japan living in West London. Music's been my thing the whole way since starting on the piano when I was 4 - growing up through classical, then jazz and the beats. Now it's all come full circle and the music keeps on getting twisted up more and more - broken beat, spacefunk, 21st century soul, cosmic hip hop, whatever you want to call it :) I've been fortunate to collab in different forms with a lot of great producers and artists - Restless Soul, DJ Spinna, Dego (4Hero), Jody Watley, Lauryn Hill, Bugz in the Attic, Kenny Dope/MAW, Wajeed/PPP, Pino Palladino, Bembe Segue, Omar, Jazzysport, Joe Clausell and plenty more... people who all have great beat and music sensibilities and we can knock heads and come up with something unique together.
JOURNEY 2 THE LIGHT is out now on Freedom School Records out of Japan... hope you get to check it, hope you dig it. Check THE POLITIK with Bembe Segue, FREESOUL SESSIONS - a fully improvised beat head experience and UNIVERSAL SUN with Chris Cox... plenty more in the pipeline!
Hey man wish I could lisetn to you tonigh! But gotta get up at 5 in the morning. Please play on a weekend in L. A ;) I've missed out on you twize in Norway now, don't wanna miss out here too!
hey there! it's been a while since we connected... how are you? what's going on in your world???? peace.love.light.friends. brig. Urb Alt Festival 08--Brooklyn Academy of Music...photo by Ed Marshall Photography
