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SOLOMON COLE will release his first solo album in 2025 via his own Hoop-LA Records and DixieFrog Records in France. A culmination of 24 months work, ‘AINT GOT TIME TO DIE’ will be his first solo venture outside of THE SOLOMON COLE BAND. The album will feature songs recorded live onsite at the WW 2 installation on Waiheke Island NZ where he resides, plus tracks mixed by veteran producer Eddie Rayner ( Crowded House, Split Enz).

The album consists of 9 tracks recorded in various locations and studios with Dixie Frog stepping in to handle European Distribution.

SOLOMON launches his own label HOOP-LA Records in 2025 that will serve not only his release but that of a number of current Waiheke artists.

BLUES TRANCE ROCK’N’ROLL

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THE SOLOMON COLE BAND

LOWDOWN

The Solomon Cole Band are a 5 piece multi gendered, multi ethnic mix of musicians from the bohemian paradise of Waiheke Island.

They've opened shows for Martha Davis & The Motels (US), My Baby (Europe), The Animals (UK) and The Supersuckers (US) and Solomon Cole was also selected to open for The Marcus King Band (US) in 2020, as part of King's planned tour of Australia and New Zealand. Their music and stage show is a high energy burst of classic soul and blues music set to trance type backbeats, electrifying guitar and voodoo like rhythms, multi layered female vocals that comes wrapped up in one little rock n roll bundle of energy and style.

Evoking the folklore of Tom Waits, their sound marries the blues effigies of Son House, R L Burnside, embraces the spirit of Howlin' Wolf - all the while delivering it with the trance and roots rock'n'roll swagger. The Solomon Cole Band ushered forth an electrifying rock'n'roll momentum with the release of their debut album ‘Bruises’ in 2016. Hailed as one of the year’s best releases, 'Bruises' erupted onto the local scene – receiving rave reviews (Mike Alexander Sunday Star Times rated it one of the years best releases) , charting on both the NZ Local album and Independent NZ Music Album charts (at 19 and 11 respectively) and culminating in a nomination for the Taite Music Prize for Best Debut Album. NASCAR US FOX Sport TV recently featured their song ‘Ring Your Bell” on their station also.

'A Little South Of Heaven', their sophomore album set to be released in 2022 and represents the evolution of a band on the threshold of taking hold and their emergence from the underground. The Solomon Cole Band will shortly no longer be NZ's best kept little secret.

PHOTOS By Meg Moss

"This is music which is incredibly emotional, as the listener is taken on a journey which is totally genuine, and it is hard to believe this is coming from New Zealand. Fans of the likes of Leadbelly and Charley Patton are going to be amazed that music like this is being produced in 2020" - Kev Rowland (Music.Net.Nz)/ “a demon of a track drenched in blues and the sort of dark country rock that has you fearing what’s lurking beneath the cabin woodpile” James Belfield ( The Weekender)

Also out NOW in May 2021 is the Motown strut and blues/soul burner FIXIN’ TO LIVE’. Check out the links below.

WEIGHS A TONNE IS OUT NOW! The self titled track from the forthcoming E.P.

“It is impossible not to be impressed by the magnificent work released by The Solomon Cole Band. This Australian combo knew how to make the perfect mix, in Weighs A Tonne, where an intense instrumental presents a meeting between the weight of rock and a feeling of soul in a sensational way and that has remarkable vocal lines in melodies that are to make the heart race. anytime.” - Roadie Music

“ A filthy stomping blues funk track that takes the heaviness of a couple of years of pandemic and buries it deep beneath a groove that - as the title suggests - weighs a tonne” James Belfield, Sunday Star Times

THE SOLOMON COLE BAND - WEIGHS A TONNE (LYRIC VIDEO)

THE SOLOMON COLE BAND - WEIGHS A TONNE (VISUALISER)

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LJ Philander | Lee Catlin | Solomon Cole | Fonnie Jo Davies - THE SOLOMON COLE BAND 2021

Ely Biegebeder | Lee Catlin | Solomon Cole | LJ Philander - THE SOLOMON COLE BAND 2019/ 2020

NEW MUSIC ALERT!

The first single of 2020 coming straight out of lockdown is ‘LUCIFERS RISING” - taking on the brooding blues effigy of Robert Johnson in it’s spirt and turning it up a notch in electricity, stomp and killer slide guitars.

The forthcoming album “ A LITTLE SOUTH OF HEAVEN” marks the second full length outing from The Solomon Cole Band since their debut “BRUISES’ in 2016. The album will contain 12 tracks of earthy, trance type blues based rock n roll. The kind that took… — The forthcoming album “ A LITTLE SOUTH OF HEAVEN” marks the second full length outing from The Solomon Cole Band since their debut “BRUISES’ in 2016. The album will contain 12 tracks of earthy, trance type blues based rock n roll. The kind that took their first album to the NZ Albums Top 20 yet with a bolder production quality.

The 2nd single straight out of lockdown is the blues & soul shakedown FIXIN’ TO LIVE. Motown meets the blues and a earthy little lament on love, loss and the forever afters.

THE SOLOMON COLE BAND “ DIGGING DEEPER’ Live at SPLORE 2021

THE SOLOMON COLE BAND: Live at the “One Night at The Fillmore East” shows

NZ TOP 20 LOCAL ALBUMS CHART

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THE SOLOMON COLE BAND 2021

LJ Philander (Drums) Solomon Cole (Guitar / Vocals) Lee Catlin (Bass) FONNIE JO DAVIES (VOCALS)

Solomon Cole and Lee Catlin are published songwriters with Songbroker. They have released albums prior under PAYOLA, stoner blues rock band THESE AUTOMATIC CHANGERS as well as electronic music via THE WAIHEKE INTERNATIONAL SOUL ORCHESTRA, NEUTRIK & MORE. Check out some of their other work below! Solomon is also guitarist for the re-united NZ icons SPACE WALTZ featuring Alastair Riddell.

Have Mercy, an album by These Automatic Changers on Spotify

These Automatic Changers, an album by These Automatic Changers on Spotify

Dirt and Stars, an album by Payola on Spotify

Gone to Ground, an album by Payola on Spotify

INLOVEWITHMYENEMY, a song by Waiheke International Soul Orchestra, Nikki Ngatai on Spotify

Three Little Words, a song by Waiheke International Soul Orchestra on Spotify

LISTEN TO BRUISES

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““With a tight rhythm section that has the elasticity of a bungee rope, The Solomon Cole Band have hit the motherlode” ****

Mike Alexander, Sunday Star Times

”Raw and evidently talented, let them Ring Your Bell.”

Ania Glowacz, NZ Musician

”These guys have obviously been long time devoted students of the school of rock and in this album they’re teaching a master class in how to rock like the greats. “

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Bruises, an album by The Solomon Cole Band on Spotify

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Bruises
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★★★★
In a day and age of the body electric, The Solomon Cole Band might seem passe. Don't be fooled though. This four-piece, hewn from the rock that's Waiheke island, has all the hallmarks of classic blues-based rock where Cole's muddy guitar lines are reminiscent of Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Rolling Stones' Keith Richards, who could easily have written the strutting Littler Sister. Cole's vocals are the dark side of Miss Sophie's soulfulness and it works a charm on the ballsy Ring Your Bell and the booze-barn drive of Sweet Ruby. With a tight rhythm tension that has the elasticity of a bungee rope, The Solomon Cole Band have hit the motherlode.
Mike Alexander

Photography By Brenna Gotje The Solomon Cole Band 2019/2020

13th Floor & rNZ InterviewS

Watch The Solomon Cole Band perform three songs and talk to Marty Duda at The 13th Floor.

Radio NZ Interview and performance.

ABOUT THE ALBUM & MEDIA LINKS

For two years The Solomon Cole Band have played to packed shows wherever they roam. In that time, 10 songs always stood out that connected with audiences, and these songs have made the record. The band made contact with Nick Abbott upon his sudden arrival home after 13 years in LA and the UK. He'd since worked with Robert Plant, Rihanna and numerous international acts in his tenure away. All this alongside local albums previously by Goldenhorse & The Datsuns, Nick was an ideal choice to take the raw bones of what The Solomon Cole Band had, and amplify it in a way the quartet hadn't thought of.

Nick states, "I had been back in the country for a few weeks when Derek asked if I’d be interested in having a go at mixing Ring Your Bell, the first single off what would become the ‘Bruises’ album. Having no expectations is a powerful thing. As is instinct, I wallowed in the raw rhythm section of Dione Denize and Lee Catlin, wrestled the monstrosities of Derek’s guitars and the female vocals. I had freedom and I took chances."

"Why?"

"Why not.Why not surprise and enthral at every turn? Why not turn this on its head?"

"Anyway. I sent the mix with trepidation. I’d seriously messed with this song. But incredibly the band loved it, and we kept moving forward. It’s been a pleasure to work on this record. The natural power of the playing, the timelessness of the writing and oh! that singing is a joy to sculpt. ‘Bruises’ is a monument to a scene, a freedom and independence. Long may it continue."

And so it came to pass, the album we had started had become an entirely different beast. Solomon says, "It no longer became the process of recording songs as they were rehearsed, but continually writing right up until the final mix, as Nick's approach would inspire new things for Lee and I."

'Bruises' includes live favourites like Lazy Boy, with it Zeppelinesque riff and snake-like groove, the Mark Lanegan sounding title track, and the glam boogie of Little Sister. Ring Your Bell has the archetypal ZZ Top guitar figure wrapped up in a story of double entendres and Alimony rounds out the record in fine southern harmony meets guitar crunch.