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Singer/songwriter/guitarist Ruru Cook, his son Marley Donnan-Cook (keys/FX) and his brother in law Sammy J Coleman (drums) jammed hard out on Christmas Day 2014. Fuelling the Christmas cheer with reggae covers and seamless improv the seeds were sown for a project that celebrated their collective love of the genre. Joined in the months following by saxophonist Byron Sigrano and bass player Brad Sinclair, 56 Hope Road germinated and those original seeds have been brought into life as a roaring lion. The reggae roots of the band are locked down masterfully by resident Rastafari Sammy J on the drums - his hat-snare-rim-shot top work bringing individual nuance to a proud genre. From there it is the boundless differences in background that introduce unfamiliar yet somehow essential original flavours to their compositions - Sigrano's jazz-inflected phrasing on the horns, Cook's indie-roots flavours that oscillate between magnetically vulnerable and emphatically challenging, Donnan-Cook's