COCONUT COURT Beach Hotel, Hastings Christ Church was the venue for the launching of a CD single, called Two Lovers As One taken from the soon to be released album by the California based band John Hart and the LittleJohn Band recently.
The single featuring Barbadian singer/ pannist Mr Impact evolved out of a meeting between Hart and Impact at the Waterfront Café in Bridgetown.
Impact, whose real name is Anderson Ward, thrilled the crowd with his steel pan playing and a voice that fills the room with his sexy, passionate delivery that has made him a crowd favourite at home and abroad.
Hart is a resident of Los Gatos, California, and he chose to launch the single here after being inspired to write Two Lovers As One “after his first trip to Barbados in 2008, finding many similarities to the beautiful tropical region in Africa” where he grew up.
After securing Impact’s “interest in joining the ensemble that provides the rhythmic and harmonic foundation for the island flavoured song”, Hart returned to Barbados with producer/engineer Tom Size to do the recording at CMI studios.
“The result literally ‘speaks for itself, fulfilling the promise of the original inspiration, from the opening steel pan intro by the incomparable Jeff Narell, to every vocal nuance performed in grand calypso style.”
The album Get Into Your Heart was recorded at Tomland in California and was supported by musicians featured in a live performance and on recordings with Journey, Santana, Tower of Power and The Doobie Brothers among others.
