"The Bay Area's Dance Kings" in the process. Delivering home grown AFROFUNK, AFROBEAT, REGGAE, AND ORIGINAL BAY AREA FUNK, the ensemble's well-balanced instrumentation of dual guitars, bass, drums, percussion, trumpet, and saxophone ensures a wide dynamic range.
Band co-founder, and bassist Wendell Rand (Pleasuremaker, Tracorum, Youssoupha Siddibe), leads the cast off with his muscular, low end dance grooves. Tasteful, precise and very funky drummer, Paul Oliphant, is a serious study in afrobeat/afrofunk drum work.
Guitarist David James (Beth Custer), former six-string slinger for the Coup and Michael Franti's Spearhead, brings his explorative, sinewy, rhythmic approach to counter guitarist Ken House's (H. P. Riot, Wade Love Band), chunky rhythms and funk-metal solos that recall the heyday of Parliament-Funkadelic.
Saxophonist David Boyce (Broun Fellinis, Ronkat Spearman), and trumpeter Mike Pitre (Bohemian Knuckle Boogie, Joe louis Walker) "evoke powerful touchstones, from classic Wailers to Ethiopian-style R&B of the early '70s". (maybe credit the quote here)
And introducing Sandy House (Wade Love Band), a powerfully sultry and dynamic front person on lead and background vocals and percussion
"There's a deep soulfulness here and the implication of cross-cultural solidarity."
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