Academy production team member Tony Nwachukwu (Nepa, CD-R) and Lars Bartkuhn (Needs Music) created a Bermuda triangle of jazz funk vibes in the top floor studio: over five days, pulling in the talents of every working pair of vocal chords in the building. Vilja first laid the chorus on the canvas. The Adi Dick added verse one, Anya (Andrea Stuart) and Black Spade (Veto Money) followed suit, before Eavesdrop (Monishia Schoeman) rapped the intro - from West London all the way down to the southernmost tip of Africa.
credits
from Various Assets - Not For Sale: Red Bull Music Academy Seattle 2005,
released January 1, 2006
Written by Tony Nwachukwu (GBR), Lars Bartkuhn (GER), Vilja Larjosto (FIN), Veto Money (USA), Adi Dick (NZL), Monishia Schoeman (RSA), Andrea Stuart (FRA); produced, arranged & mixed by Tony Nwachukwu & Lars Bartkuhn; recording engineered by Erik Breuer (GER); programming & arrangement by Lars Bartkuhn; trumpet by Toby Laing (NZL); drums by Mike Musburger (USA); vocals by Vilja Larjosto, Veto Money, Adi Dick, Monishia Schoeman & Andrea Stuart
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