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Saturday, November 13
Elbo Room
647 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA
10 PM
Adv
Tickets: $13
“Urban Soul” featuring:
Martin Luther (of the Roots)
J'Rod Indigo
Kid Beyond
w/ DJ Rickey Vincent
"Urban Soul Night" is a chance to acknowledge the contributions of the
people who brought uplifting gospel voices to the riotous music of funk.
Artists like Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin, George Clinton, and Sly
& the Family Stone all learned to sing in church, then brought the gospel
style to secular themes, creating soul music. As the music behind them got
dirtier and funkier, their voices continued to testify, creating a softer,
but no less evocative branch of the funk tree. In recent years, this
combination of contemporary music with gospel-style vocals has assimilated
hip hop production techniques and influences and evolved into new forms,
like modern R&B, and urban soul. We are proud to have Martin Luther, a man
who’s at the cutting edge of soul, hip hop AND funk, headlining our Urban
Soul night. He last performed at SFFunk in 2002 and burned down the house.
We can expect more of the same on November 13. |
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Martin Luther (San Francisco):
Rock meets soul meets funk in the music of Bay Area favorite,
Martin Luther. Composer, musician and producer, Luther’s sound is steeped with the spirits
of Jimi Hendrix, James Brown and Stevie Wonder and the choir hymns and
religious music that laced his upbringing. Currently playing rhythm guitar
and lead vocals with The Roots, Luther is poised to release his sophomore
album this month Rebel Soul Music on Goodvibe Records. But perhaps Luther
describes his own music best, “My music is just soul music. I attach “rebel”
to it, because its revolutionary. I want you to evolve from your day to day
thinking that most music being played on the radio doesn’t encourage or
inspire you to do. Therefore, my music has some sort of rebellious attitude
about it.”
www.rebelsoulmusic.com
J'Rod Indigo (San Francisco)
Chicago-born J'Rod Indigo has been singing since the age of 6,
sometimes going the rounds with his cousin, Jurassic 5 MC Chali
2Na. But it took a trip to San Francisco for him to find his muse,
and since moving here in 1998 he has been leaving audiences astounded
by his voice. Just this year, he released his first soul EP "Infectious" which displayed his eclectic influences: classic southside Chicago soul, funk, rock, hip-hop/african styled drums, jazz musings, bossa nova, and other various forms of music. Today he helps to lead the "nu-soul" revival
along with artists like D'Angelo, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, and Martin
Luther. www.jindigomusic.com
Kid Beyond (San Francisco)
A man with a thousand names, but one overriding passion, Andrew
Chaikin is San Francisco’s foremost master of the art of
vocal percussion, or to the layman; beat-boxing. With a musical
pedigree going back more than 20 years to his Tommy Boy Records-sponsored
House Jacks, Chaikin has centered his vision on refining and
expanding his beat-boxing skills. His addition of looping technology
has enabled him to recreate an entire orchestra in real-time
with just the sounds from his mouth. This one-man-bandstand has
earned him initiation to play a variety of venues and festival
all over the United States. But what really turns him on is passing
his gift on to others – teaching beat-boxing to youngsters,
something he does quite frequently throughout the Bay Area. We
are proud to have him give one of his epic “Beat-box Workshops” at
the 11/6 “Funk School” event.
www.kidbeyond.com
Rickey Vincent (Oakland):
Whether you choose to call him “the Funky Professor” or
the “Uhuru Maggot” there is little dispute that Rickey
Vincent is America’s leading academic authority on the funk.
The author of “Funk: the Music, the People, and the Rhythm
of the ONE” Rickey has taught classes at SF State, USF, and
has most recently entered the doctoral program at the University
of California at Berkeley. The longtime host of KPFA’s Friday
night “History of Funk” radio show, Rickey is an accomplished
purveyor of funky grooves, a skill he will show off at Elbo Room
on 11/13. But his main contribution to SFFUNK ’04 will be
a lecture and QA session during the 11/6 “Funk School” event,
regarding the age-old question “What is FUNK?”
http://www.kalilight.com/nsites/rickey.html
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