Recording artists Jimi Tenor & Nicole Willis who are life partners
as well as past collaborators, reunite for their new project, artist
name Cola&Jimmu, 'Cola", a kind of pseudonym of Nicole and 'Jimmu",
associated with the legend of the first emperor of Japan, Jimnu Tenno.
Both Tenor and Willis have fronted their own projects over the past
decade, Willis most recently working with Helsinki - based group the
Soul Investigators, for their albums Tortured Soul & Keep Reachin'
Up, Timmion Records 2005, 2013. The Helsinki Sanomat recently called
Willis & the Soul Investigators 'the world's best on the stage of
Tavastia". The title track of Keep Reachin' Up was chosen in February
2012 for POTUS, Barack Obama's Re - Election Spotify Playlist.
Tenor
also contributed horn arrangements to the 2 albums in the collaborative
effort of Willis & the Soul Investigators. Tenor & Willis also
wrote and recorded tracks from release of Tenor's Call Of The Wild, from
the LP Out Of Nowhere, Warp Records 2000. As of late, Jimi Tenor
collaborated with Tony Allen for their LP on Strut Records 2009,
Inspiration Information, eclectic 'outsider' Itetune on Temmi Kongi
2011, with Abdissa Assefa, & the self titled Soft Focus with Lary 7
on Tommi Grönlund's Puu/Sähko Recordings 2013. Willis & Tenor have
roots in dance - floor music with there separate success' such as
Tenor's techno classic Take Me Baby, & Willis' neo - soul New York
based project Repercussions, Promise Me Nothing which peaked at # 6 on
Hot Dance Music, Club Play chart of Billboard Magazine, with remixes
from Master's At Work and Supa DJ Dmitry. Cola&Jimmu revisit 1990
house, which bares so many monikers. Cola & Jimmu title it 'deep
house revival", drawing influences from Bobby Konders releases on
NuGroove to Yellow Magic Orchestra's Firecracker, with vocal styles
comparable to Gwen Guthrie & CeCe Peniston
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