The Black Seeds

The Black Seeds
Origin	Wellington, New Zealand
Genres	Rock, reggae, ska
Years active	1998–present
Associated acts	Fly My Pretties Flash Harry Flight of the Conchords Video Kid Hollie Smith Fat Freddy's Drop
Website	Official Site
Members
Barnaby Weir Mike Fabulous Daniel Weetman Lee Prebble Jarney Murphy Tim Jarray Andrew Christiansen Jabin Ward Nigel Patterson
Past members
Bret McKenzie Rich Christie Shannon Williams

The Black Seeds are a musical group from Wellington, New Zealand. 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, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, bass, drums, bongos, keyboard and wood block.

Lead singer Barnaby Weir is also associated with the sideprojects Flash Harry and Fly My Pretties. Former band member Bret McKenzie is also a member of international award-winning comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, as well as playing Figwit the elf in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. 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

Main article: The Black Seeds discography

• Keep On Pushing LP (2001)
• On the Sun (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