Get It Together is the long-awaited new album from Sola Rosa. The follow up to 2005’s hugely successful Moves On was recorded over the last 3½ yrs at Red Bull Studios & The Lab, with mixing duties performed at bandleader Andrew Spraggon’s home studio in Pt. Chevalier, Auckland.
Picking up where the performance-based Moves On album left off in 2005, there’s a sweating, smoking live band at the heart of the new record, made up of long-term members of the Rosa roster, Will Scott (drums), Matt Short (bass) & Ben White (guitar).
The songs on their fourth album have then been swathed in Spraggon studio sorcery, tooled-up for maximum dancefloor impact & bolstered by a roll-call of vocalists & musicians running headlong into Sola Rosa’s sonic stirrings at full force – with vocal cuts from Spikey Tee (best known for his work with Jah Wobble, Bomb The Bass, Mark Rae & on some of Sola Rosa’s finest moments); German globetrotter Bajka; UK MC Serocee; & emerging Wellingtonian songstress Iva Lamkum.
Underpinning these outstanding vocalists you’ll find an eclectic batch of collaborators that includes Victoria Kelly, Julien Dyne, Juse, Scratch 22, Haydn Godfrey, John Highsted, James Duncan & Miguel Fuentes.
Since 1999 Andrew Spraggon has been tantalising listeners with otherworldly aural experiences, honing his craft & taking Sola Rosa from a self-released one man project to fully-fledged live powerhouse along the way.
On Get It Together the band fuse diverse genres, with skewed soundtracks rubbing shoulders with elements of dub, hip hop, lounge & jazz along the way. Taking in a wide swathe of genres & walking an ever-erratic line between organic & electronic elements, the songs continue to pull off Spraggon’s patented trick of bewitching & beguiling ears in equal proportion & is further proof of the solid sonic sorcery that is Sola Rosa.
1. The Ace Of Space
2. Turn Around
3. Del Ray
4. Humanised
5. Love Alone
6. Get It Together
7. I’ve Tried Ways
8. Lady Love
9. All You Need
10. Bond Is Back
11. These Words, These Sounds, These Powers
