Chill Out Café, Volume Quattro [Audio CD] Various Artists

President Roots hail from the Mornington Peninsula, due south of Melbourne also home to Gotye, Whitley, The Fauves and Cousin Leonard and an inspiring place to make music. Free from the distractions of the city it could easily lay claim to be Australia's own Laurel Canyon? Against this backdrop the band has crafted a dozen tracks for their debut album Migration, released nationally through Vitamin Records on June 1st. After 2 years of writing, recording and rehearsing Migration is now ready for your ears. The album was recorded on a minimal budget with generous contributions from Julian Mendelsohn (Paul McCartney, Pet Shop Boys, Kate Bush) and Mark Frith (The Electric Soft Parade, Gay Dad, Tom McCrae). President Roots have developed a huge local reputation on the peninsula as a must see live band playing over 150 shows, and with a substantial turn out to their local album launch, have been truly embraced by the local community. Venturing to Tamworth twice and tipped as a best kept secret, once as the subject of a documentary pilot Road Stories.