High Wire brings the same aesthetic for quality, authentic music to releases as its parent label

Vintage League Music (VLM). However, the focus of High Wire is genres from outside of

the soul funk domain.

High Wire Artists

KillerStar

KillerStar is a new band with an upcoming album of the same name, featuring Rob Fleming (vocals, guitar, synths) & James Sedge (drums) together with an array of David Bowie’s most trusted collaborators: Mike Garson on piano, Earl Slick and Mark Plati on guitar, Gail Ann Dorsey and Tim Lefebvre on bass, Emm Gryner on backing vocals, and Donny McCaslin on saxophone. Collectively they have crafted a sound which fuses the scale of classic rock with sophisticated harmonies and elements of art rock.

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thedeepstate

thedeepstate are an explosive psych soul rock band from the UK. The Deepstate combines the psychedelic soul of 1970s Tina Turner, The Temptations, Betty Davis and Jimi Hendrix, with progressive influences and expansive atmospheric soundtracks.

Comprising Michelle Jones, Ralph Cardall and James Sedge each of which has an impressive musical track record. Their upcoming album ‘Broken Pieces’ is a deeply personal album for Michelle touching on love, loss, race, and celebration.

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Emm Gryner

Emm Gryner is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor and best-selling author. Emm sang and played keyboards in David Bowie’s band, and appears on numerous recordings, including his landmark 1999 SNL appearance, Bowie at The Beeb and Toy. Bowie’s acclaimed Glastonbury 2000 documents her performance in front of more than 100,000 fans at Worthy Farm. With her own band, she shared arena stages with Def Leppard, and she also helped bring the first music video recorded in outer space to the world.

Detroit radio formed the soundtrack of Emm’s life and career and her forthcoming record is a celebration of that music. From Motown, jazz and pop, to Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and The Doobie Brothers, Business & Pleasure is infused with the sunshine soul and stellar playing of the late 70s and early 80s. These songs, written with poet Michael Holmes, and recorded with drummer Shannon Forrest (Toto), keyboardist Pat Coil (Michael McDonald), singer Catherine Russell (Steely Dan), and guitarists Tom Bukovac (Taylor Swift) and Pat Buchanan (Hall & Oates, Dolly Parton), embody a take on yacht rock that sails deep into the 2020s and introduce the world to a bold new character: a powerful woman whose passion, presence, conviction, humor and grace serves to unite the world in music, joy and love, once again.

Photo Credit: Scott Clarke