In 1977 Peter Legat, the prospective guitarist, composer and
mastermind of Count Basic, moved to Vienna in order to study jazz
guitar at the Vienna Conservatory, commencing in 1980 and
completing it with excellence in 1985. During this period Peter
Legat had already produced 2 albums with his former band.

When Peter Legat brought his project Count Basic to life in 1993,
he instantaneously received a record deal. Encouraged by the huge
success of his first single "All Time High" in Austria, he flew
to London in order to produce his first album. Ernie McKone
invited the cream of the crop of acid jazz musicians to the
studio to produce the first album "Life Think It Over". This was
when Peter Legat met the New Yorker singer Kelli Sae. She was won
over for this first project and has been a consistant component
of Count Basic ever since.

Kelli is currently living in New York, but working around the
globe. She is a very busy studio and live vocalist with numerous
bands and always working on her own projects as well. Just to
name a few, she has also worked with: Defunkt, Incognito, Neneh
Cherry, Arrested Development, DJ Logic, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Nona Hendrix, Eric Gadd, Tony Rebel, Ben Neil and many more - and
has opened shows for music legends such as the late Curtis
Mayfield, George Clinton and P-Funk, David
Bowie, Bootsy Collins, Toto, Living Colour, Inner
Circle and many others.

While Kelli Sae is kept busy in N.Y., Peter Legat is always on
the run in Vienna. Besides working on his albums, he is a much
sought after studio & session player as well as composer, but
still finds time to teach guitar at the University Of Music And
Performing Arts in Vienna and lecture at ensemble and songwriting
workshops. Together, Kelli and Peter are the soul of Count Basic,
a group of 11 band members who have achieved an impressive number
of Hit-singles and who deliver the most fascinating Jazz-Funk and
Soul we have heard since Incognito and Earth, Wind & Fire.

It has been 13 years now that Count Basic started to please their
audiences all over the world with distinctive cosmopolitan
soundscapes - although they hail from the rather small metropolis
of Vienna, Austria. But maybe the new art of world music isn't
about hype-fringed ethno-styles at all. For sure it's all about
the groove and how you play it. "Love & Light", the new album by
Count Basic stands up to prove this point - impressive,
persuasive and in a better temper than ever. Five years have
passed since the release of the last full-length-album by the
almost legendary formation and not only a change of record label
happened on the way.

"It's very exciting for us to do a fresh start" says Peter Legat,
"the change of label has boosted our motivation and pulled us
away from the old tracks - so far away that we reached back to
our very roots, the typical Count Basic-Sound of the nineties.

"Love & Light", the
new album they will now introduce in Sofia, is totally true to
vision of Peter Legat and his fellow musicians and to their
intention to create an album, that would function as a whole, a
work of homogenity without any fillers or lows, from the first to
last minute. 13 perfect songs, sparkling with ambition and clever
arrangements.
It has been worth the wait. We will be able to enjoy this album
and foremost Count Basic live for the first time ever in
Bulgaria.