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Stefan Redtenbacher interview | ’40 Minutes of Funk’ LISTEN HERE! What fun to do this Stefan Redtenbacher interview on ’40 Minutes of Funk’ with Michael Bendure from Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Michael is a true Funk music lover and has clearly spent some time to get into the music of the Funkestra and my career.…
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Dear funkateers, you might have come here via one of the buttons on my latest newsletter or via social media. Either way, happy that you are here and are interested in some of my stories. Starting off with this great quote (attributed to many like Blaise Pascal, John Locke, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, Cicero,…
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The Golden Switchback ‘The Golden Switchback’ is the 1960s themed album that I always wanted to write. Inspired by classic film music recordings by Lalo Schifrin, Quincy Jones and John Barry, Ennio Moricone et al. The backstory If my go-to recording studio would be big enough I would have recorded the arrangements of my compositions…
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DRUMMERS! Play-along fun! Click here and download the minus drums track from the new Redtenbacher’s Funkestra’ Big Funk Band’ album. 1 Download the track & play-along 2 Video Yourself 3 Upload it onto instagram tagging both @funkestra & @mikedolbearcom There will be a prize for our favourite! Competition will run from Sep 29 until Oct…
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Album cover by Neil J Hart, photo by Rob Blackham A while ago we created a couple Masterlink Session videos with young Blues artist of the year 2020 and 2021 Connor Selby. We were all impressed by Connor’s musical majurity, love for Ray Charles, all things ‘classic Blues’, his fascination of the ‘death tempo’ (playing…
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Van Romaine plays ‘Slipped Biscuit’ Master drummer Van Romaine plays ‘Slipped Biscuit’. Van, whose credits include Steve Morse Band, Billy Joel, Enrique Iglesias, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Deep Purple, Steve Vai, Jaco Pastorius, Bernie Worrell, Nena, to name but a few is laying it down large on ‘Slipped Biscuit’. This tune was originally released on…
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(from L to R): Tony Remy, Mike Outram, Karl Vanden Bossche, Joe Glossop, Stefan Redtenbacher, Leo Mansell, Mike Sturgis, James Welch in the courtyard of Masterlink Productions Studio Dear funkateers, this is my latest Masterlink Sessions Patreon blog – I thought it was worth sharing on my own website too:-) 60 | 20 | 10…
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Funkestra featuring trombonist Nichol Thomson Live at Masterlink Watch this live stream hosted at Masterlink Productions on the True-Live streaming platform HERE. 20:30 UK Time 21:30 CEST (Europe) 3:30pm EDT (New York) 12:30pm (California) This is hopefully the first of many Redtenbacher’s Funkestra live streams featuring awesome guests. First up, trombonist and keyboard player Nichol…
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BIG FUNK BAND out now on RSB Records Best known for their original ‘wall-to-wall’ instrumental Jazz Funk, the London-based Redtenbacher’s Funkestra are excited to share Big FUNK Band which follows 2020’s well received The Hang. The latter has accumulated over 500,000 streams on Spotify since its release last fall and spent multiple weeks on the…
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New Orleans Drummer Stanton Moore is the drummer on ‘Feed The Chicken’ – one of the original Jazz Funk tracks forming part of Redtenbacher’s Funkestra fortcoming album ‘BIG FUNK BAND’, dropping April 30. You can pre-order a white vinyl or deluxe CD package HERE on Bandcamp. Recently Stanton started a weekly Wednesday night live stream…
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With much excitement I’m finally in the position to announce that ‘Big FUNK Band’ is coming your way, following on from the super-well received ‘The Hang’ which has accumulated over 450k+ Spotify streams since the 2020 release and spending numerous weeks being number #1 in the Funk category of the Roots Music Report (RMR).
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When Redtenbacher’s Funkestra gigs were still possible ‘Cool Beans’ was always an audience favorite. This stomping wall-to-wall funk piece with a larger-than-life bass line certainly justifies to be on the ‘Big FUNK Band’ album. The rhythm section is extended by a big band horn section and a live string section. The featured soloists are guitar wizard Mike Outram and Paul Jordanous on trumpet (who also co-wrote the horn arrangement with Stefan).
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