Her Wikipedia article is very small but luckily there's Discogs with a lot of work this lady has been doing until now. I thought of her again when I listened to Opolopo's album "Superconductor" a while ago, which also features her; the release is from 2015. Taka Boom has been collaborating a lot with house producers throughout the years. First I came across her name on P-Funk albums when I could have sworn it was Chaka but it said "Taka", so I started googling... One of the songs I knew but I didn't know it was her; alto sax solo by Gary Bartz.
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - Her Wikipedia article is very small but luckily there's Discogs with a lot of work this lady has been doing until now. I thought of her again when I listened to Opolopo's album Superconductor a while ago, which also features her; the release is from 2015. Taka Boom has been collaborating a lot with house producers throughout the years.First I came across her name on P-Funk albums when I could have sworn it was Chaka but it said Taka, so I started googling...One of the songs I knew but I didn't know it was her; alto sax solo by Gary Bartz.
