PRIME CRIME is an international group founded by singer/keyboarder
Remy D. Elliot, saxman Alex Foster, bassist Sergio Brandao (from
Brazil) and drummer Rick Sebastian.
Their music is wild eclectic mix of styles - a caribean gumbo made
out of salsa, funk, jazz and pop elements. It is sometimes reminscend
of Stevie Winwood, but has a very individual taste.
Some sound examples as WAV-files:
HEARTS IN A LINE (256 KB WAVE ,
ca. 23 Sec., vocals and horns from chorus)
CAJUNS IN CUBA (240 KB WAVE , ca. 22
Sec. , wild Salsa-Funk-tune, showing off the rhythm section with a
hot US-horn section, superstar Paquito D'Rivera is part of the
section and plays the solo)
CUTTIN' YOU LOOSE (240 KB WAVE from
the chorus of the tune with full horn section, the background singers
and Stvie Donn, Phil Perry and Remy D. singing)
Remy D. calls it "funk without junk" or "Eddi Palmieri, James Brown,
Phil Collins, Gato Barbieri and the Yellowjackets meeting for
carnival in New Orleans." (Remy is cuban born and grew up in New
Orleans)
The group:
Guests:
Recorded and mixed in New Orleans, NYC, London - Vocal tunes mixed
at Hansahaus-Studio, Bonn , by Klaus Genuit.
Mastering: Radu Marinescu on Sonic Solutions