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Kava Kava
Kava Kava are a turbo charged rocked out and funked up live dance rock act with soulful vocals, guitars, electronica, brass, strings and beats. Played live In the USA, Europe and China and featured in a load of film and TV.
Kava Kava are a turbo charged rocked out and funked up live dance rock act from Huddersfield with distinctive soulful vocals, guitars, electronica, brass, strings and beats. Recently featured in a load of film and TV eg first episode of Golden Globe winning TV series 'Weeds, 'LA Riding Club', hot and debauched new indie Hollywood film 'Boys & Girls Guide To Getting Down'. Receiving airplay all over, including plays on KCRW in Los Angeles (Nic Harcourt/Morning Becomes Eclectic). "should be on every funk and disco playlist, period!... Love it!" (DJ Magazine)
KAVA KAVA are based in Huddersfield - that's in Yorkshire, UK originally starting out as a 4 piece live psychedelic funk outfit with heavy George Clinton influences. They started out on the underground festival/party scene, had a few independent record deals out there. The NME has described them as "gorgeous new psychedelic funk" and they had a No 1 in their CLUB GUIDE CHART. They expanded into a six/seven piece and have been punting self produced album MAUI out on the CHOCOLATE FIREGUARD label.
Spins include Nic Harcourt's show 'MORNING BECOMES ECLECTIC' on KCRW and Sat Bisla's PASSPORT APPROVED radio show .... our music is featured in new cult US Showtime TV series WEEDS featuring Mary Louise Parker as a pot dealer. Mary Louise has won a Golden Globe for her excellent performance. 'Don't Stop The Music' was featured heavily in the very first episode. Other TV/film slots include LA RIDING CLUB, JOHN FROM CINCINNATI ('Tic' is in that one), Hollywood movie BOYS AND GIRLS GUIDE TO GETTING DOWN (Sicfuck, Bank Job, Terrorists etc) and FX series DIRT featuring Courtney Cox (NFA, Tic) ....
Kava Kava have been profiled as one of THE bands from the Yorkshire area of the UK to look out for via the New Yorkshire project (Yorkshire? think Corrine Bailey Rae/Kaiser Chiefs/Arctic Monkeys etc), track 'Bank Job' being featured on the Music Week magazine (MIDEM edition) cover mount CD with a glowing write up on the band and initiative. www.newyorkshire.net. The band also performed three gigs at SXSW Festival, Austin, Texas (March 2007), the dance village at Glastonbury Festival 2007 and toured China including a slot at the Beijing Midi Festival
Played clubs and festivals in the US, China and right across Europe too .... from France, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Switzerland and the Czech Republic, to Austria, Germany, Poland and Italy. In the UK played Glastonbury Festival a few times. Along the way they have played with all kinds of bands from Asian Dub Foundation, Gil Scott Heron, Embrace, The Damned, Zion Train, Surreal Madrid, Fingathing, Freestylers, The Bays, Vadim's Oneself etc etc......
Billboard Magazine feature (US) September 2006:
"Despite a hard rock appearance, Kava Kava creates party-worthy music by combining rock, funk, dance and soul. After forming around the turn of the millennium, the U.K. foursome began by piecing together space rock and disco. A full-length, "Maui," was ultimately released on bandleader Pat Fulgoni's own label, Chocolate Fireguard. The label has released four artists and a handful of compilations. "It's all very time-consuming, and I'll know it's gone too far when I start answering the phone onstage," Fulgoni says. The label work hasn't yet worn him down, and the group has maintained a heavy touring schedule in Europe, including such U.K. music festivals as Glastonbury in 2003. While the act is looking for licensing and distribution opportunities in the United States, Kava Kava has already been heard on Showtime series "Weeds" and has been spun by Nic Harcourt on noncommercial KCRW Los Angeles"
Live review September 2006
(Beached Festival 2006, Scarborough)
BBC website/Alex Jackson
"Kava Kava is another mixed bag not afraid to experiment in what they do. They are a concoction of electric soul, funk, blues and rock. On this evidence you can tell why they've been round Europe, played Glastonbury and been praised by DJ magazines worldwide. The Huddersfield group are the most eclectic band of the weekend for me, which is why I liked them so much. The fact one minute they would dabble in bleeps, big beats and even horns and the next brass and strings were apparent, left the audience guessing all day long. Each song has about a zillion different phases in and these rare oddities do sound like nothing I've heard before"
- kavakava [ at ] chocolatefireguard.co.uk
Victoria Holdsworth chats with Kava Kava main guy Pat Fulgoni.
