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Nov 13, 04
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IVANA SANTILLI this Wed, Nov. 17th
http://www.spectrum-events.com
 Back in the Groove Ivana Santilli brings in the funk on Corduroy Boogie After suffering through a severe writer's block that lasted more than a year, a trip to Philadelphia clubs in 2002 got the Toronto multi-instrumentalist back into her groove. "I found my inspiration in rediscovering myself. This producer and DJ, King Britt, let me hear some brokenbeat from London and I thought, 'I've got to do something like this,' " she says. The syncopated electronic beats she heard at parties got Santilli out of her slump and gave her a direction to start writing her new album Corduroy Boogie, a more dance-oriented effort than her 1999 solo debut Brown. "I adore groove. I love Earth, Wind and Fire and Quincy Jones, so I embraced my love of funk on this record, but it's going to come out different that them, because I'm a white girl from the suburbs," she laughs. After coming off an 18-month tour in support of Brown, the former Bass is Base member found herself "at a low point" because of a lack of focus and a financial dispute with her distributor. "If I'm feeling low I kind of hide away, and that's how I am as a writer too. I'd rather be contributing instead of blubbering." Corduroy Boogie was recorded in London, New York and Toronto with several producers, chosen for their different abilities. "I like to get some other energy coming in so there always is a new flavour. It will always be my flavour, but they are adding different spices," she says. Santilli hopes the new album will finally get rid of her jazz-fusionist tag and allow her to be taken more seriously as a groove-oriented pop artist. "The only jazz influence is that some of my chords are jazz chords, but I don't know the theory behind it. I'm tired of being labeled as an acid-jazz artist because acid-jazz doesn't exist. If acid-jazz doesn't exist, I don't exist, so I shouldn't have to pay my taxes," she laughs. 
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