THE AUTHENTICAL ROOTS ROCK REGGAE SOUND IS BACK

"Get Up & Get Going" – the 3. Sebastian Sturm Album is nothing else than a new start for the 30-year-old inhabitant of Aachen, Germany. After both predecessors "This Change is nice" (2006) and “One moment in Peace“ (2008) appears in 2011 for the first time an album directly at Rootdown Records. Additionally Sebastian comes up with a new Band structure named “Exile Airline” which consists partly of the known and also of new companions.
In winter 2010/2011 the ways from Sebastian Sturm, his present live Band Jin-Jin and his producer & manager Martin Pauen split up after 5 successful years. After a short test phase the fresh constellation “Exile Airline” with Danger Dan (Keys, Vocs), Moses C. (Riddimgit., Vocs, Perc.), Helmuth Fass (Bass), Philip Breidenbach (Git. / Production) and Samuel Reissen (Drums) begins to record the new Sebastian Sturm Songs which mostly already exist in acoustic versions at this point.

The new ruling mood, the teamwork and the common vision immediately spread to the recordings. Musically, nevertheless, Sebastian Sturm & Exile Airline maintain with the central theme of the predecessors. The base forms like before the Roots Rock Reggae of the 70s, but also some accents and facets of the modern times introduce themselves. Thus "Get Up & Get Going" presents itself substantially more interlocked & fond of play and is not afraid to pull up elements like an Indie Rock Riff in "Responsibility" for example. The acoustic songs "Faith" and "Get Going" have maintained their original character and illustrate so rather clearly an impression how Sebastian’s songs originate, before they are set further in scene inside the studio. The Band “Exile Airline” marks the inner centre of the sound picture on "Get Up & Get Going", because one can’t catch this vibe of real musicians with programming or technical backings. The warm, analogous sound also arranges the carpet for the only guest contribution on the album. In "Tear Down Theses Walls" a song for his daughter, Sebastian shares the microphone with one of his personal, Jamaican heroes: Kiddus I. The 73-year-old veteran, not least known for his appearance in the reggae film classic "Rockers", spent some days in Cologne to realize this cooperation. Philip Breidenbach who has already developed as an ideal counterpart in the matter of Songwriting for Sebastian takes over the position of the producer and debuts in this role impressively.

With "Get Up & Get Going" Sebastian Sturm & Exile Airline present a Roots Rock Reggae album as it cannot sound more authentically in the year 2011 and the aim stays to reach out for more…