About This Release
With their new album Dose A Nova looming, Shotnez, a Tel Aviv based four-piece who have made their comeback over ten years after their last album, take the listener into a deep & hypnotic Afrobeat groove with their new single Contagious.
Featuring the original Balkan Beat Box producers Ori Kaplan and Tamir Muskat, Shotnez return with their latest single Contagious, an instrumental, Afrobeat inspired workout with a jazzy edge and distinctly Middle Eastern vibrations. Due for release on October 14th, the album Dose A Nova draws sounds and inspirations from North African desert blues and Mulatu Astatke inspired jazz, from Nigerian Afrobeat and 1950s Afro-Cuban jams.
Originally formed back in New York City in the early 2000s, the group are now reunited for a new era. The current line also includes Uri Kinrot from Boom Pam and Itamar Ziegler from The Backyard. Over a period of four months in 2021, the four musicians (all who are producers with some kind of green shoots into hip hop) met up once a week in a compact, former suburban carpentry studio in Tel Aviv, downing their midi cards, triggers and synths, instead picking up and playing instruments. Traditional instruments. Saxophone, clarinet, guitar, percussion and drums.
The resulting recordings have the hallmarks of a group under no pressure, no deadlines, no pressure of labels knocking on doors. It’s a product of a real sense of camaraderie, musical community and cohesiveness, a collective desire to find a higher plane. And now, having partnered with label Batov Records, coming soon to a record player and concert hall near you.