Bobby Oroza
Big Crown Records explains it best:
When looking for a description of the music Bobby Oroza makes, you may lean into some familiar territory: vintage-sounding, dreamy, sensual, a deep cut on some wonderfully odd indie-love-film soundtrack. And, yes, all of those attributes are accurate—but still, they fall desperately short of describing what Bobby and company have provided us in a short amount of time.
Bobby Oroza is a soul artist hailing from Helsinki, Finland. Teaming up with the Timmion Records house band Cold Diamond & Mink, he has a tight quartet of musicians to support his vision. His cult classic debut album This Love introduced the world to his strange and unique shade of Soul.
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His music is often described as Chicano soul from Finland.
Cold Diamond & Mink
Cold Diamond & Mink is a production team and studio band at Timmion Records, Helsinki Finland. Seppo Salmi, Sami Kantelinen, and Jukka Sarapää are founders of the group. The band has played, written and produced tracks for artists such as Bobby Oroza, Pratt & Moody, Carlton Jumel Smith, etc. and created several instrumental records.
Brainstory
To be familiar with Brainstory is to know their Rialto, CA, roots, the positivity that laces each of their songs, and then the maverick-musicianship-meets-real-friendship that expertly holds it all together.
If you’re new to Brainstory, you’d be forgiven if you didn’t quite believe the music they make—from sweet soul slowies to psyche rock-tinted bangers to ballads with a nod to a smooth jazzy R&B of the 70s—is the product of only three people.
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Brainstory is the brothers Kevin and Tony Martin (on guitar/vocals and bass, respectfully) and Eric Hagstrom (drums)—but all three of these raw, sensitive, California dudes are family.
Springing from the obscurity of the Inland Empire, Brainstory forges ahead using the soul and fire of Jazz with psychedelic sensibilities that make them apart from the rest.
