Two Roots Atua Blues

• 1 Amazing Grace 05:53
• 2 River Blues 04:11
• 3 Hard Lovin' Woman 03:09
• 4 I Get The Blues 03:56
• 5 My Sweet Lord 03:43
• 6 No Competition 02:37
• 7 Suck It Up 03:24
• 8 Rose 03:35
• 9 Who's Gonna Change My Soul 04:23
• 10 Fisherman 03:18
• 11 What Have We Done 04:03
• Total Runtime 42:12

Info zu Two Roots

Atua Blues ist das Zusammentreffen zweier seltener Talente, zweier unterschiedlicher, sich jedoch hervorragend ergänzender Kulturen und eines tief verwurzelten Wunsches, all dies zu einer Art gemeinschaftlichem Topf zu verschmelzen, in dem Blues (als Rückgrat), Soul (für die Interpretation) und Country (für den „exotischen“ Touch) zusammenkommen, um ein Album hervorzubringen, das einfach außergewöhnlich ist. Atua Blues bringt somit Grant Haua, den brillanten Maori-Bluesmusiker, den man nicht vorstellen muss, und David Noël, den charismatischen Sänger der Supersoul Brothers, der Band aus Pua, von der alle sprechen, zusammen. Getragen von herausragenden Titeln wie „River Blues”, „No Competition”, „I Get The Blues“, „What Have We Done“ und der bewegenden Interpretation von „Amazing Grace“ wird dieses „Two Roots“ seinem Namen wunderbar gerecht und markiert eine Begegnung auf höchstem Niveau zwischen zwei Kulturen, die durch eine gemeinsame Leidenschaft verbunden sind – ein Gefühl, das durch die überraschende Coverversion von „My Sweet Lord“, gesungen auf Englisch, Maori und Okzitanisch, perfekt zum Ausdruck kommt.

"Schade dass der Sommer vorbei ist. Dieses Album wäre der ideale Begleiter zu einem guten Glas Wein auf der Terrasse in der untergehenden Abendsonne! Funktioniert aber auch ganzjährig ohne Probleme." (myrevelations.de)

Grant Haua, Gesang, Gitarre
David Noël, Gesang
Tim Julian, Keyboards, Bass, Percussion
James Bos, Schlagzeug
Tara Julian, Hintergrundgesang
Julian Stantau, Orgel

Grant Haua
is a “salt of the earth” kind of guy. When we put together a bio for him he said “Nah man. I am a just a guy with a guitar. You need to tell the story straight”. So who better than to tell his story than the man himself - the following is Grants bio, straight from the horse’s mouth. - DF Records

I picked up guitar when I was 13, my younger brother had got one for Christmas the year before and I noticed he was already starting to get admiring glances when he played from the girls at our school, I said to myself "dam I need to learn the guitar too", unfortunately for me my brother was a better looker and player than me, so it didn't quite work out, but I've been playing guitar ever since.

I like to think I've paid my dues, its hard to tell growing up and gigging in a small but beautiful country like Aotearoa New Zealand, being based in a country with a population of 4 million, one often wonders about overseas acts to see where you stand, since the end of Covid I've toured around Europe twice and Australia twice as well, with a lot of shows in between back home, touring really is the best way to polish your act.

I've been the primary singer/songwriter/guitarist on 8 studio albums and 2 live over the years, my first solo album "Knucklehead" released in 2010 had good reviews resulting in an article on the album, it opened a few doors for me on the local circuit- one thing led to another and I ended up meeting percussionist Michael Barker [Neil Finn, John Butler Trio] - we hit it off straight away and formed "Swamp Thing", and for the following 8 years we wrote and toured regularly.

Mike was already a veteran in the industry at that time, the benefit of him being in bands that have done big U.S. TV shows like Letterman and Leno soon became apparent, straight off the bat we were doing festivals that were tough to get on, and after a few years we were headlining festivals both here and in Australia, slowly we progressed to bigger stages like Womad (NZ), Womadelaide (Aus), Woodford Folk Festival (Aus). It was on these stages we really excelled, often selling more cds than the more well known headline acts. After our Womad 2017 performance in New Plymouth we occupied both the 1 and 2 spots for album sales in the NZ charts.

In Jan 2019 after 4 albums and many tours through Australia and New Zealand I made the difficult decision to depart Swamp Thing, to focus on the music I really enjoy, soul music, and things are going pretty good, my 2nd solo album "AWA BLUES" was a Top 25 album of the year in Rolling Stone magazine France in 2021 and it really it opened up touring in Europe for me, getting a gig on the iconic German Music TV show Rockpalast is a highlight and more recently Taratata in Paris. I'm currently with the small but almost family French label DixieFrog and I couldn't be happier,, having released 4 albums thus far under their banner,,, and I'm still trying to learn the guitar.

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