The Black Seeds are a musical group from Wellington

Wellington

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, New Zealand

New Zealand

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. Their music is a fusion of dub, funk, afrobeat and soul.

The Black Seeds have two double-platinum selling albums at home, and successful European album releases through the German-based Sonar Kollektiv label. The Black Seeds perform with eight members, with instruments including vocals

Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

, guitar

Guitar

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, saxophone

Saxophone

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, trumpet

Trumpet

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, bass

Bass guitar

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, drums

Drum kit

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, bongos

Bongo drum

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, keyboard

Keyboard instrument

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 and wood block

Wood block

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.

Lead singer Barnaby Weir is also associated with the sideprojects Flash Harry and Fly My Pretties

Fly My Pretties

Fly My Pretties is a collaboration of musicians from Wellington, New Zealand that only records live albums, in various locations in New Zealand. The different musical backgrounds of the members make for an eclectic mix of songs on their releases...

. Former band member Bret McKenzie

Bret McKenzie

Bret Peter Tarrant McKenzie is a comedian, actor, musician and producer, best known for being one half of the Grammy Award winning musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords along with Jemaine Clement....

 is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords

Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...

, as well as playing Figwit

Figwit

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 the elf in Peter Jackson

Peter Jackson

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's The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

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. Their song "One by One" was used in AMC's Breaking Bad Season 2 Episode 9, "4 Days Out".

The Black Seeds have released seven albums: Keep On Pushing L.P (2001) and On The Sun (2003), Into the Dojo (2006) and Solid Ground (2008), a live album and remix albums Pushed (2003) and Specials (2010).

Discography

• Keep On Pushing LP (2001)
• On the Sun
  On the Sun
  On the Sun is the second album by New Zealand reggae band The Black Seeds released in 2004.. It includes the song "On The Sun" which debuted at number 3 on the New Zealand Charts- Track listing :# "Tuk Tuk"# "Turn It Around"# "Bring You Up"...
  
  (2004)
• Into the Dojo (2006)
• Solid Ground (2008)
• The Black Seed Lives - Vol 1 (2009)
• Specials: remixes and versions off Solid Grind (2010)

External links

• The Black Seeds official site
• Amplifier.co.nz - The Black Seeds
• Sonar Kollektiv