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Vula Viel

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Vula Viel means Good is Good in Dagaare, the language of the tribe in Upper West Ghana where Bex Burch lived, farmed and studied for three years. Now it's the name of her trio featuring the best of London’s young music talent: Ruth Goller (bass) and Jim Hart (drums). Their intensely rhythmic music is an engaging mix of African, punk and minimalist influences. Based around the Gyil (the Dagaare xylophone made of sacred lliga wood) Vula Viel create something new and vital. Vula Viel started making waves in 2015 when they quickly caught the attention of the Royal Festival Hall promotors and played a sold out show in the Purcell Room. Followed in December 2015 with another sold out gig at Ronnie Scott's for the opening of the London Jazz Festival, at which Burch took an axe to wood and tuned a xylophone key live on BBC radio 3, the Guardian names them the “unexpected stars of a glizy show ★★★★”. Their new trio line-up and fresh, raw sound makes Vula Viel ripe to develop their presence and profile across the World. Vula Viel sound like nothing you’ve ever heard before. Indeed in the hands of Vula Viel, Good is very Good indeed! Press on Vula Viel: Iggy Pop “Beautiful .. Dance to it, Make Love to it, Consume it.. That music deserves good reactions!” Gilles Peterson "One of my discoveries for the London Jazz Festival… Good is Good” Jazzwise – "instant, unmistakable originality.” ★★★★ "Ridiculously Danceable" fROOTS “Something wonderful is at work here … this music gets straight to the exhilarated heart…This is a superb, generous record. And good for your feet.” Songlines – ★★★★ "Joyous, celebratory and explosive … New and vital” Financial Times ★★★★ | Songlines ★★★★ | Jazzwise ★★★★ | London Evening Standard ★★★★ | "Funerals have never sounded so funky" Songlines “like Portico Quartet on steroids” Jazzwise