Album Notes

If you’re feeling a little deprived of new soul and good grooves to dance to, you need look no further - Like A Tree by GrooveAttic dropped on Friday, May 15th, 2009 at Club Lambi in Montreal. Blending sounds of funk and soul from past and present, this electrifying 10-track debut release is at once vintage and fresh. Engineered and Produced by Andrew Mullin, he says these were some of “the best in-studio musical moments I’ve ever heard”. Sharing the stage for the successful event at Club Lambi was Montreal’s own Sharon Brooks and D.J. Sarcastic for a night of funk, soul, rock and non-stop boogie. The spectacle also included Mere Phantoms, a live-projections duo that animated visuals to GrooveAttic’s music in real time. It was visually and musically stunning.

Having spent only two live sessions in the studio for the bulk of the music, this much anticipated album has a clean sound and deep groove, unsuspected from a quartet of white boys from Montreal, LaChute, Quebec City, and Mission, B.C. While the genre of this band lies somewhere between pop & soul, these musical technicians have reserved much of the space on the album for spontaneity and improvisation. “Even though these songs have typical song-form structures and hooks, we wanted to bring back an element of variability and surprise to the mainstream… so the listener gets pulled in and played with, instead of dictated to”. – Kurt Skjaevestad, lead singer and keyboard player.

Tracks from the album like the rip-roaring disco-funk single, I Wanna Do It Again, and title track, Like A Tree, have already seen much radio airplay on CKUT and other Canadian radio stations. After hearing the master cut, Producer Brian Cooper (Beck, Snow) said, “…they’ve crafted a very sophisticated and well-thought out album… its so good my engineers and I were laughing as we were catapulted back to the 70’s with some of their licks and ideas”.