Integrated Roots Band

Integrated Roots Band is a chamber ensemble of young musicians; Versed and committed to creating authentic repertory, designed with beauty and good vibration.

Formed in September 1998, Integrated Roots believes that exceptional compositions are the outcome of calculation and conscious invention balanced with inspiration and spontaneity. The hardest thing in the world to do in this business is start a band nobody’s heard of. Their whole preconception was about discipline and staying focused.
Here, the most difficult challenges were being mastered with an enormous free play of the imagination.

They longed to be professional musicians who could play exactly what they wanted, however experimental and be sure of an audience and radio play.

Soon they developed their own songwriting skills and a more progressive sense of tradition. Orchestrating diverse elements together into space-time continuity; Projecting sounds even random ones and any compositional rhetoric into a pleasing construction, because they had understood that it wasn't the notes that made music (that was just noise) it was the spaces between the notes that mattered.

Their considerable achievement is the maiden collection of music, which has a whole lifetime of experiences woven into it and is in many ways the tangible evidence of a goal achieved in spite of very difficult circumstances.

The group has become freewheeling alchemists of Afro Pop/ World Music genre. A specification echoed by:

Joe Arnold
Vice President
A&R Worldwide.
United States of America.

“…I had a chance to listen to some of the music. It’s very good-Has a big World Music sound to it. I’ll definitely keep this in mind if any of the briefs are a close fit…”

Traditional acoustic instruments are well integrated into the music. The instruments chase each other at high speed and head to head interplay. The rhythms are strong and fluid enough to stimulate the spine. Xylophones breathe melody while drums and percussive treats back-up the intensity.

There is also a solid beat and brassy arrangement with tricky relays. It can surge with wild force of raging horns and break neck guitar solo runs. Sweetening effects such as strings and multiple vocal harmonies creates a plush sophisticated atmosphere.

A vibrant voice expresses the music and makes it sparkle invitingly. Arguably the most lively and original voices far and wide. Sung straight from the heart and speaks irresistibly to the ears. Even the unprepared listener can penetrate at first to what is actually going on despite the multiple intellectual levels and complexity.

The scope of this project is enormous with a mix of songs to please the purist as well as the populist. What they bring to the picture is unique, accessible and artistically interesting. Their songs will touch people’s emotions and hopefully move them to accept their artistic statement as their own.

The first leap of faith has been taken.

Anyone can write a song, very few people can write great songs. They believe that great songwriting is all about great creativity.