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April 29, 2008

Soulfege

Call them Afropolitan. Call their sound ReggHopFunk Fusion, by way of Ghana and Harvard Yard. Call this team of beaming musicians (with not one, but three soaring vocalists) P-Funk progeny, channeling Manu Dibango and Sly Stone and Rage Against the Machine.

Whatever you want to dub them, this weekend’s performance by Soulfege at Manhattan’s Knitting Factory was a rare treat in these way-ironic days: a full-on groove group powering out songs with upbeat melodies to match their message—one of global community and connectedness, conveyed with such energy, assuredness, and good will that they transcended the ironic, transformed the conversation, and transported the listener beyond the otherwise dismal and downbeat world around them.

Soulfege (a term for the diatonic “do-re-mi” music scale) is led by Derrick Ashong, a West African-raised, Harvard-educated, L.A.-based singer-songwriter (his moniker: D.N.A.), actor (Steven Spielberg’s Amistad), lecturer, and political activist. (In February, I blogged about his viral YouTube video, on his passion for Barak Obama.) On Saturday, with his fellow choirmates from his college days, Jonathan Gramling and Keely Nicole Johnson, Ashong and company echoed and built on one another’s buoyancy, backed by thick, sick basslines and drum-and-bongo beats. (They just won Billboard’s Best Hip Hop Songwriting contest.)

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2008/04/david-friend-af.html

 

About Soulfège

"Here are musicians, poised with a positive vibe and with lyrics so uplifting that you actually believe, if only for one night, that slowly, out of a species-wide weariness for discord and conflict, a new world mood may emerge from the street and the Net, somehow defying the odds—a spirit of promise and hope and harmony, a spirit that denies dissonance. Soulfege lets us dream such sweet dreams, in vibrant colors." – VanityFair.com

What would you get if Bob Marley were jammin' with The Fugees on a street corner in West Africa? 

Afro-Diasporic Groovalicious Funkadociousness!!!

Check out the band @ soulfege.comFusing a unique blend of Hip Hop, Reggae, Funk & West African Highlife, critically-acclaimed Afropolitan fusion band Soulfège has electrified and inspired audiences with driving rhythms, tight harmonies, powerful lyrics and authentic musicianship. The Harvard-educated trio are the founders of "Take Back the Mic(tm)," a movement to put meaning back into today's music and to challenge a new generation of youth to speak for themselves.

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