Pariss Elektra is once more on vocals duties for the new single Duende, a psychedelic and introspective rumination on love and peace from TC & The Groove Family, whose ferocious debut LP First Home, full of soaring horns, jangly highlife guitars and Latin-Caribbean polyrhythms, comes out next month.

Duende is the latest offering from TC & The Groove Family’s upcoming debut album First Home. Produced by Nubiyan Twist’s Tom Excell (Onipa, Ego Ella May, Nerija) the LP melds a divergent and international pool of influences (as heard in their fiercely energetic live sets), whilst also telling the story of a group of friends returning to the city where they once assembled, to chant down the powers that be and further widen the British jazz sound through a distinct 2022 Leeds filter. The group will perform at festivals, We Out Here, Shambala, Wilderness, Outlook UK, and Green Man this summer 2022.

Comprising members who learnt their chops performing across Leeds’s thriving live-music circuit, TC & The Groove originally formed as the brainchild of drummer/percussionist and Midlands-raised, Tim Cook. All but one of the group studied at the renowned Leeds College Of Music and through their communion on the dancefloors/streets of Leeds’ famous Subdub, Leeds West Indian

Carnival and at Cosmic Slop parties, TC & The Groove Family’s mixed-gender and multicultural unit bring together a stylistic range that encompasses Soulful house/UKG-inspired vocals, King Tubby, post-punk/indie and DJ Shadow. Inviting such a disparate group of musicians might have seemed random at first but what was to follow was an unmatched sense of comfort and familiarity.

It was so exciting to bring this group of people together, who all have their own gift and sound. First Home does not only represent the location of Leeds where we first met, but a state of being for us. We know each other inside out. That close connection we all have playing together, being together, that is our First Home. ~ says Tim.

Recorded over the course of a hot early summer’s week in Sheffield at Yellow Arch Studios, First Home blends dexterous Latin percussion, Central African psychedelia and UK soundsystem culture across eight exchanges of cross-genre exploration, augmented by Tom Excell’s finessed production and studio engineering.

TC & The Groove Family LIVE (UK Dates)

27th May – The Globe, Cardiff

28th May – 93 Feet East, London

29th May – Elderflower Fields Festival

1st June – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds TICKETS AVAILABLE

2nd June – Lost Horizons, Bristol

3rd June – Boiler Room, Guilford

4th June – The Brook, Southampton

30th June – El Dorado

1st July – Outlook

22nd July – Secret Garden Party

23rd July – Great Get Together

24th July – Bluedot

28th July – Kendal Calling

29th July – Deershed

30th July – Farmfest

4th August – Good Society

7th August – Wilderness

20th August – Greenman

25th August – We Out Here

26th August – Shambala

27th August – Camper Calling

28th August – Moovin

3rd September – Smugglers