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Sure Fire Soul Ensemble: Aragon/El Niño

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by Joe Gatto
September 29, 2018

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, from San Diego, is one of the most talented new bands on the West Coast. The group mixes funk, soul, jazz, Latin & African influences to create unique, exciting music. Their 2018 single on Colemine Records, “Aragon b/w El Niño" is a little black crack 45 inch slab of jazzy funk grooves. “Aragon" is high-energy jazz-funk with potent percussion underpinning happy horns that fly high. The rhythm section, guitar & keys move ...

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Sure Fire Soul Ensemble: Out On The Coast

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by Joe Gatto
January 17, 2017

Sure Fire Soul Ensemble, from jny: San Diego, is one of the most talented new bands on the West Coast. Mixing funk, soul, jazz, and Latin & African influences to create unique, exciting music... their “cinematic soul" is like a cross between the music from Jim Jarmusch movies & Blacksploitation films of the 1970s. And, you can dance to it! If you like Snarky Puppy, The Beastie Boys' instrumentals, Quantic, The New Mastersounds, Karl Denson & ...