About Us

3Head is a musical collective of a number of quality & recognised musicians comprising:

Al Macaulay, Calina de la Mare, Spider Johnson, Carlos Ortiz, David Burgui Burgui, & Max Sanchez Mancebo

and with contributions from Dave Woolfson and Ras B; 

as well as from Duncan Forbes who’s mixed and co-produced our forthcoming 3rd album
and with additional female vocals from Laura Basakinci.

Full Artists Biogs below.

Having released a bunch of new EPs during in 2021 & 2022 with a host of new tracks, remixes & collaborations + we’ve also got fully new live sets as both full band and DJ over decks.

find out more about our live here: 3-head.com/live-dates/

Whilst the new album is fully finished, we’re going to release a series of new EPs in 2023 before the album launch.

Calina de la Mare

Original band member, composition & violinist

A founder member of 3head, Calina is a freelance professional violinist. She mixes up performing and composing work.  Diverse projects include playing with session orchestra COOL Music; founder member of Clod Ensemble;  session player with many artists including playing with Tindersticks and Nerina Pallot for many years. Arranging/composing work includes orchestrating and co-composing the string quartet parts for Maya Youssef’s new tracks: release 2022. She is Creative Lead and Workshop Leader for Soundbox Ensemble – composing music with disabled young people.

Al Macaulay

Founder & head honcho. Plus he plays drums & writes the tunes

Composition, percussion, keys & co-production. (Ex founder Tindersticks) played on their first 6 albums and soundtracks as well as working as a session musician with Cousteau and Scott4 and a very early incarnation of Levitation among others. He has a film-tv c.v. as long as your arm. Recently he has been playing a lot of Coltrane live as well as co-producing 3head.

SPIDER (Johnson Etienne)

Lead male vocals, toasting, rhythm and solo guitar and bass

 Vocals and guitar. (Lee “Scratch” Perry, Mad Professor, Scientist, Big Youth, Horace Andy, Dizzie Rascal, Wiley, Tinie Tempah, Estelle, Madness, UB40 & Kioko to name just a few).

Spider J is a Professional Mentor/Artist Producer at Roundhouse, Camden, where he sits on the Board of Trustees, as well as recording with Madness and Producing, Songwriting & Mentoring Kioko.

Carlos Ortiz: 

Bass guitar

What would a live dub band be without the key to it all & the rock on the bass to underpin everything? Carlos is exactly that man.

Carlos is both a Bassist and double bassist in groups like Balerdi Balerdi, Kerobia, Karatekas or La Baldosa Floating as well as with 3Head.

Max Sanchez Mancebo

Lead female vocals 

A naturally born & gifted vocalist, at the tender age of 22. Max started in Donosti with a jazz and soul group called “May & The Jukebox” playing at Jazzaldia 2017, whilst continuing to play solo playing at her house at parties in various towns in and around Pamplona.

In the summer of 2019 when, in San Fermines, she has baptized the duet “Fly Mailo!” in Katakraq.

Before and after the pandemic, Max managed to play in venues such as Zentral, with the Emmusicadas festival, Txintxarri, with Letraheridas, in Geltoki, in the Masa criticism etc.
The winners of young art meetings 2021, they are still active today.

And now also as a keyboardist and lead female vocalist of 3Head.

David Burgui Burgui: 

Lead Guitar

Trained in Superior Degree of electric guitar and in Professional Degree of classical in Conservatory, David has made national and international tours with different artists and has participated in different formations of various styles such as pop-rock, jazz, reggae, rocksteady,… as well as being an actor in numerous TV programs and has recorded several soundtracks. Alongside being 3Head’s lead guitarist, David is also currently involved with a number of different projects.

Duncan Forbes

Co-producer & re-mixer

(Spooky & Duncan Forbes) Label boss of 49 North Records and with recent acclaimed releases through the !K7 record label Duncan’s most emphatically made his mark on the global scene as one half of legendary duo – Spooky – alongside Charlie May; releasing a string of landmark singles and albums over 3 decades, not to mention timeless remix / production work for International heavyweights like Depeche Mode, M83, Sasha, William Orbit, Mr.G and Apparat.

Lara Basacinci

Female vocals on 3Head’s 3rd album

Laura is a well-known singer in Turkey. Her recent projects include ads for national TV, as well as 3head.

Ras B

Lead male vocals & toasting

(The Bug & On U Sound)

After exploding onto the scene with 3head, Ras B worked on cuts with Adrain Sherwood and then the Bug to huge acclaim.

Exclusive Band Interview – courtesy of the wonderful James Endecott on Soho Radio