Miami
Friday Night Sessions
Friday, July 06, 2012 (9:30 PM - 2:00 AM) | 
Purdy Lounge 1811 Purdy Ave Miami FL
Purdy Lounge Presents
Friday Night Sessions
Featuring
Samantha Gibb And The Cortel
Samantha Gibb And The Cortel
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Friday Night Sessions
Featuring
Samantha Gibb And The Cortel
Samantha Gibb And The Cortel
Samantha Gibb may have been given a unique musical birthright most artists would kill for, but it wasn’t until the formation of The Cartel that she truly found her direction. Webster’s tells us a cartel is a union between independent forces in the interest of a common goal, and that’s a perfect description of the dynamic that drives Samantha Gibb & The Cartel.
If Gibb’s last name rings a bell it’s because she’s the daughter of late Bee Gees singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Maurice Gibb, who mentored her entry into the music business, producing Samantha’s early recordings with her brother Adam under the name Luna Park in the late ‘90s. And when Lazaro Rodriguez entered their Miami Beach studio to lay down some guitar tracks, Samantha knew she’d found a simpatico spirit. Eventually, Adam left the group, but after Laz brought in his old friend Nick Sallons on bass, the core of what was about to become The Cartel was in place.
All three band members suffered a huge loss when Maurice passed away in 2003, and they released their first recordings together under the name M.E.G. (for Maurice Ernest Gibb) “To keep his name going and keep him with us, we had his initials” explains Laz. By 2007, the trio was ready for a change; feeling limited by the Miami Beach music scene, they decided to move to Nashville together, starting their own studio there. Though there’s not much twang in their sound, they found much more than country in Music City. “There’s obviously country every place you turn here, but there’s just so much alternative music” says Samantha. Laz concurs, “It was exactly what we wanted to be around. We felt more at home. Three years down the line, what happened was what I wanted to happen. We’re learning from amazing talent around here. We didn’t have that in Miami.”
Further evidence that Gibb, Rodriguez, and Sallons had finally found their feet with their arrival in Nashville can be seen in their identity-declaring name change from M.E.G. to Samantha Gibb & The Cartel. That doesn’t mean they abandoned their roots, though. “Even though we’ve changed the name, we still have our production company and our studio under M.E.G.” Samantha explains. Though the group had been laboring intensely for years at this point, they refined their unique blend of influences more distinctively than ever before in Nashville, and the results are all over their new EP, Wrong Side.
If Gibb’s last name rings a bell it’s because she’s the daughter of late Bee Gees singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Maurice Gibb, who mentored her entry into the music business, producing Samantha’s early recordings with her brother Adam under the name Luna Park in the late ‘90s. And when Lazaro Rodriguez entered their Miami Beach studio to lay down some guitar tracks, Samantha knew she’d found a simpatico spirit. Eventually, Adam left the group, but after Laz brought in his old friend Nick Sallons on bass, the core of what was about to become The Cartel was in place.
All three band members suffered a huge loss when Maurice passed away in 2003, and they released their first recordings together under the name M.E.G. (for Maurice Ernest Gibb) “To keep his name going and keep him with us, we had his initials” explains Laz. By 2007, the trio was ready for a change; feeling limited by the Miami Beach music scene, they decided to move to Nashville together, starting their own studio there. Though there’s not much twang in their sound, they found much more than country in Music City. “There’s obviously country every place you turn here, but there’s just so much alternative music” says Samantha. Laz concurs, “It was exactly what we wanted to be around. We felt more at home. Three years down the line, what happened was what I wanted to happen. We’re learning from amazing talent around here. We didn’t have that in Miami.”
Further evidence that Gibb, Rodriguez, and Sallons had finally found their feet with their arrival in Nashville can be seen in their identity-declaring name change from M.E.G. to Samantha Gibb & The Cartel. That doesn’t mean they abandoned their roots, though. “Even though we’ve changed the name, we still have our production company and our studio under M.E.G.” Samantha explains. Though the group had been laboring intensely for years at this point, they refined their unique blend of influences more distinctively than ever before in Nashville, and the results are all over their new EP, Wrong Side.
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Friday, July 06, 2012 (9:30 PM - 2:00 AM)
Purdy Lounge 1811 Purdy Ave, MiamiFL
