He’s hip cool and ready to charge onto the scene.
“Funk is fun, and it’s a state of mind,” George Clinton once said. “But it’s also all the ramifications of that state of mind.” With this observation, one of funk’s inventors sought to free the style from any constraints. Funk is lowdown music, designed for dancing, with a heavy bottom and a crazy streak; but an exceptional artist can also make funk that’s quiet, beautiful, a real head trip. What makes music funky isn’t necessarily a monster bassline. It’s the spaciousness the sound creates, the hint of wildness luring even the prettiest melodies and arrangements into unexplored corners of consciousness.
Most songs here float around as if in zero gravity, anchored by subtle melodic hooks. As the music swirls like dandelion seeds around him, it’s obvious that he’s singing for himself, and for all of us, as he offers a sweet musical ride that turns out to be equipped with wings. His latest release titled Master of Jam VI is exactly that. A musical ride that affirms the mastery of his craft which he has chiseled and perfected over the years.
