Accomplished NYC singer-songwriter Kelli Sae unveils joyful new single Good Feeling on 21st June 2024, the first fruit of her fourth solo artist album due early next year. Good Feeling swings, sways and shimmies with playful Latino spirit; a summer-fun delight all about seizing the day and embracing love and life. Sae’s sizzling vocals dance in and around deft keys, layered horns, tight guitar parts and, of course, that infectious percussion. Verses switch up to agile scat solos and down to emotive breakdowns – it’s the very best of feelings….
Good Feeling is produced by Chris Franck, co-founder of Da Lata, chief instigator behind Zeep, Smoke City and Batu, and long-standing mastermind for a wealth of other studio projects and remixes. The record features a talented cast of musicians including award-winning Brazilian composer Rafael Martini, who arranged and conducted the horn sections in one of Latin music’s truest heartlands Belo Horizonte.
Kelli Sae’s story has it all. An internationally acclaimed artist, she previously shone as lead vocalist for renowned jazz-funk collectives Incognito, Count Basic and Defunkt, and worked with Tina Turner, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Ashford & Simpson and Me’shell Ndegéocello among others. Born of Puerto Rican, African and French descent, Sae has soulful eclecticism in her blood. The exciting mix of sounds, cultures and influences across her three, independently-released solo albums to date is testament to this, as well as her respected forays into composing, playwrighting and stage performance.
Good Feeling is Kelli Sae’s latest impactful outing for Reel People Music, following singles Good Love, Right Now and Believe In A Brighter Day earlier this decade. The special relationship is set to blossom further over the coming months. We. Can’t. Wait.
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released June 21, 2024
Written by Chris Franck & Kelli Smith
Produced by Chris Franck for Da Lata Music
All Vocals by Kelli Sae
Guitars, Keyboards & Percussion by Chris Franck
Drums by Marcinho Perreira
Bass by Bruno Vellozo da Silva
Flugelhorn by Pedro Mota
Trumpet by Ulisses Luciano
Trombone by Joao Machala
Horns Arranged & Conducted by Rafael Martini
Horns recorded by Rafael Dutra @ Acústico Motor, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Drums recorded by Matt Cooper
Vocals recorded and engineered by Kelli Sae @ Kwurk Arts Group Studios, New Jersey
Mixed by Toni Economides @ Bambu Studios, London
Mastered by Clinton McCreery @ Bambu Studios, London
A&R by Oli Lazarus
P&C 2024 Reel People Music Limited
To follow an artists for 20yrs+ and be rewarded with a release like seems extraordinary. The funk simply does not stop. Love the Vandrossesque She Knows, but the stand out In The Meadows is laden with soul and one of the funkeist chorus sections ever. If he never releases another track this is the perfect encapsulation of his sensibilities and love of all those top tracks from the 70's & 80's - which this collection can sit beside on the same podium. Sean Phillips aka DJ DodgeTazer