Bio
NAJE'S CINEPHONIQ VOLUME 2 IS NOW AVAILABLE AT THE ITUNES MUSIC STORE!
San Francisco chanteuse Najè brings a steamy chill-noir soundtrack to the post chill-landscape with her debut album ‘Cinephoniq’. Heavily influenced by jazz greats, Billy and Ella - Najè’s voice is a sultry, jazz-tinged cocktail mixed with contemporary Euro cool. Add a strong dose of mblaze’s downtempo, break beats, and electronic grooves and you’ve got a polished, exotic feast that should electrify those hungry for something new.
Najè met British sound designer/producer mblaze in LA in the late 90’s where they decided to join forces after quickly realizing they shared a mutual passion for video/film and music. They both worked together for software start-up, lava.com, producing interactive music visuals for artists such as Moby, Earth Wind and Fire, De La Soul, and George Clinton. In 2001, they began writing and recording tracks for ‘Cinephoniq’ at GTM Studios in Laguna and Man In The Maze Studios in Northern California.
Najè started her musical career in Athens, GA (indie-mecca and land of R.E.M., The B-52's, Man Or Astroman?) in the mid 90‘s where she worked with Man Or Astroman’s? Hayden Thais, after playing with the all-girl band The Supervixens.
Soon after releasing her first album, Naje quickly introduced herself to Atlanta’s rapidly growing music scene. It was at this time she began performing regular gigs in top Atlanta /Athens music clubs and on the festival circuit. Naje has played at top establishments such as The Cotton Club, The Tongue and Groove, The 40 Watt, The Sambucca Jazz Café, The Athens Music and Film Festival, and The Athens Jazz Festival in addition to touring and performing throughout the east coast: The Chicago New Music Festival, The Cat’s Cradle (Chapel Hill, NC) , Velvet Elvis (Savannah,GA).
mblaze, aka Mike Barnes, British sound-designer/producer graduated from City University, London with a Masters in Music Information Technology to work for Yamaha’s prestigious London R&D Center where he spearheaded European contributions to many of Yamaha’s pro synthesizer and audio products. During this time, he was offered a job to collaborate with James Bond uber-composer, David Arnold, in programming/sound-design for the movies Stargate and Last of The Dogmen.