The Pepper Pots, Don't Mess Up A Good Thing

The Pepper Pots are a Spanish soul band, respectively from Catalonia and were created in 2002 with the idea of bringing back the sound and style of the 60s bands.

The band is composed by Adriana Prunell, Aya Sima and Marina Torres - on vocals, Luiggi King - on guitars, Ireneu Grosset - on keyboards, Enric Fluvià - on bass guitar, Joan Vergés - on drums, Tomy Muñoz - on tenor sax, Gerard Xifra - on baritone sax and Roger Montsant - on trumpet.

With several released work, Train To Your Love was their last album to be released, marking a big step on the band's career keeping the "old school" sound of the best soul album of the 60's.
The album was recorded on their own studio Black Pepper Studio using analog techniques and instruments similar to the considered to be "Golden era" of soul. The mixing was made by Bob Ohlsson, who worked with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye or The Temptations.
Train To Your Love reminds a lot of The Supremes and Jackson 5's sound influenced by their unique talent.

The EP Time and Place is a collaboration between The Pepper Pots and the american soul singer Eli "Paperboy" Reed. The EP is a result of a long "dream" from both bands that became true last May, with the release of Time and Place - a record of their own versions mixing "the rugged soul of the American star and the silken Motown sound of the Catalans".

This video is from the recent EP Time And Place. Don't Mess Up A Good Thing is an original song from 1965 by Fontella Bass, an American soul singer.

"Don't you be no fool
Don't you be no fool
You gonna keep on
Fooling around now, baby
You're gonna mess up a good thing
You're gonna mess up a good thing"

The Pepper Pots are performing next February in Plano B, Porto and Arte & Manha, Lisboa, respectively on 24th and 25th.

Discover more about this band on their Official Site, Facebook, Twitter or Youtube.

themed week // Michael Jackson, Thriller

Michael Jackson.

From the moonwalk, Thriller, Jackson 5 passing through scandals and King of Pop, Michael Jackson is considered to be the most successful entertainer of all times.

He began his career in 1964 with his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon, creating the very successful group The Jackson 5.
In 1971, Michael started his solo career, turning to the dominant figure on the 80's not only for his live performances but also for his music talent.

He released 10 studio albums - Got To Be There (1972), Ben (1972), Music & Me (1973), Forever, Michael (1975), Off The Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991), HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I (1995) and Invincible (2001).

Thanks to his work and long contribution to music and culture, not mentioning his own records and performances - Jackson is a very rewarded artist, receiving several Guinness World Records, Grammy Awards and American Music Awards.

Thriller is the most successful album of all times. This record was released in 1982, selling over 20 million copies around the world. Thriller includes some of the most known songs like Beat It or Billie Jean.

The self-titled song was the seventh and the last single taken from Thriller, released in 1984.
The songs initial title was supposed to be Starlight but the writer Rob Temperton once commented
"Originally, when I did my Thriller demo, I called it Starlight. Quincy said to me, 'You managed to come up with a title for the last album, see what you can do for this album.' (...) I went back to the hotel, wrote two or three hundred titles, and came up with the title 'Midnight Man'. The next morning, I woke up, and I just said this word... Something in my head just said, this is the title."

Temperton also said that during the writing process he always imagined a talking section at the end, but he didn't know how and what to do until he decided "to have somebody, a famous voice, in the horror genre, to do this vocal" ending with Vincent Price - an American actor known for his distinguish voice and semi-comic attitude on horror movies.

The video for this song is a 14-minute short film based on the ideologies of the horror music from the 1950s. Shortly the plot of this film is about a couple - Michael and Ola Ray - and the guy asks her if she would marry him, what she replies yes. After he warns her that "he is different". He sees a full moon and transforms into a weird creature somewhere between a zombie and a werewolf.

Check the entire 14-minute video below.

"You hear the door slam

And realize there's nowhere left to run

You feel the cold hand

And wonder if you'll ever see the sun

You close your eyes"