About Me
Welcome to your new obsession
Whether you'll be hiring them, desiring them or just admiring them, The Soular System wants to quench the thirst you have for exciting new music.
Bringing an ear for consummate musicianship and an eye for provocative lyrics, The Soular System successfully attempts to combine the songwriting ideals of yesterday with the vogue design of tomorrow, while maintaining a variety of styles embedded in Funk.
Sometimes political, sometimes spiritual, sometimes sexed to the nth degree, Rev. Desmond D'Angelo's "eclectrospective" lyrics stretch around the colorfast canvas of sound painted by Ral's bass strokes, Mike Maloney's guitar spray and Jes Bradley's drum splatters. The music is then adorned with percussive keyboard melodies sculpted from the ivory of Danny Bedrosian and framed with the finest brass of Sir Rothenberg, Pedro Pizarro and the Damn Diz.
The Soular System is currently in the studio finishing up their new album, the long-awaited follow-up to their 1999 debut 10 Lbs. Of Funk (In A 5 Lb. Bag), of which they have sold over 1000 copies with no outside distribution; in fact, most were sold at shows. In addition to featuring Soular System and P-Funk keyboard player Danny Bedrosian, P-Funks Cordell Boogie Mosson also laid some groove on the new record. It is expected to be released around June 2006.
Over the years, the band has shared the bill with lots of great acts, including Fishbone and Digital Underground on several occasions, as well as Government Mule, De La Soul, Earth Wind and Fire, Chicago, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Electric Six, Karl Densons Tiny Universe, and a slew of others, in and all around the Southeast. Indeed, theres rarely a style with which the band dont fit. In fact, after playing shows with Fishbone, bassist and founding member Norwood Fisher asked the guys if he could distribute their latest album on his own personal Nuttscator 5 Records label, alongside Weapon of Choice, Trulio Disgracias, and, of course, Fishbone themselves.
Once you get past the futile attempts of classifying the music, you're introduced to the most eclectic and electrifying stage shows in recent years' memories. The looks, the moves, and the outright intensity of the party that The Soular System throws with you will make you wish you could keep them in your pocket when they're done.
Glad u could come
and remember...
the crying baby says,
"Don't wear glitter to shows and get it all over everybody!"
WEFUNK SOUTH Groups:
WEFUNK SOUTH has a small stable of masterful artists, serious groups and monstrous bands that have huge marketing potential, and amazing raw talent. Here are short descriptions of but a few of them:
Danny Bedrosian & Secret Army - formed by Bedrosian, and membered by fellow P-Funkers and musical legends Dewayne “Blackbyrd†Mcknight, Lige Curry, Rico Lewis, and more, Secret Army is a musical collective combining Hard Funk with Ethnic Middle Eastern Music, other World Music forms, Jazz Fusion, R&B, Hip-Hop, and various classical music elements from keyboardist Bedrosian’s extensive 20-year long classical tutelage. The music is both approachable and innovative. Their first album was released independently with WEFUNK SOUTH and BozFonk Moosick Publishing heading it up, and has received rave reviews as being something never really heard before; a new fusion, carrying with it a tradition first put down by the original Parliament-Funkadelic members who fused various genres in their own right in the 60’s and 70’s. Secret Army is doing the same thing with new genres and sub-genres, new technology, and a new World audience. The overlying theme is unity in this multi-ethnic, cross-cultural, multi gender band. The second album, a double album, by Secret Army was recently released, and the band’s third is currently being completed. This group has already played all over the East Coast and Midwest; some of the key shows include opening for George Clinton at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL, headlining the FSU Hempfest in 2007, and playing the main stage at 2008’s Trinumeral Festival, to name but a select few. The band is currently planning several international tours.
Moon Child-a mixture of Alaskan folk music, Pop, Dance funk, Celtic folk music, Classical composition, Crunk, southern fried beats, and Beatles-esque songwriting, Moon Child is a very unique singer-songwriter, whose first album, produced by Bedrosian is a testament to the diverse styles and the quiet, angelic soprano of Moon Child. Also featured on the album is longtime P-Funk contributor Jerome Rodgers. Moon Child is currently working on new material for another album, and fronting her funk band,
Soul Hole in Fairbanks, Alaska.
UNFUNKWITABLE-Led by Dwayne Dungey, featuring keyboards by P-Funk's Danny Bedrosian, Secret Army guitarist Marc Munoz, and asphalt Panda drummer Seth Ceders, Tallahassee area bassist Jamie Campbell, and special guests. The sound is RAW FUNK with a METAL edge, and a psychologically transcendent lyrical side which is as multi dimensional as the music which goes from quiest as a mouse, to blatantly nasty at the drop of a hat!
Asphalt Panda-a jazz/rock power trio out of Tallahassee, FL, their first album is currently being finished by Bedrosian. Their strong bedrock of drums, bass and guitar is a startlingly different type of group than the larger WEFUNK SOUTH outfits, and the intricate, tight arrangements reflect the small combo’s extremely dedicated musical approach. If one would describe them outright it would be best to describe them as a fruit punch of EMO, Pop, Jazz Fusion and Alternative music. Led by Bassist and songwriter Duane Day, Asphalt Panda is a unique and yet very marketable approach to the power trio, fusing many important aspects of popular music today.
Teresa Jimenez-a masterful jazz/pop/soul/folk/rock singer with a wide range of abilities and styles. Featuring a mixture of Secret Army and The Soular System forms the majority of her band, alongside guests such as jazz sessionmen, P-Funk’s Garry Shider, Russian funk virtuoso violinist Felix Lahuti, New England beatsmith Jon Picken, NYC artist Brian Maloney, an a hefty group of musicians from Sweet Motha’ Child. Teresa’s music can be anything from upbeat and pop-flavored, to steamy and jazzy, to sexy and funky, to solemn and refined at the drop of a hat. The majority of the compositions on this album are written by Jimenez, producer Bedrosian and Soular System/Secret Army triple duty guitarist/songwriter Mike Maloney.
Clonin the Wheel-A consistent, funky, dancefloor oriented EP, which started as a collaboration between Bedrosian and North Carolina multi-instrumentalist Chris Cornwell. P-Funk All-Star and solo artist in her own right, Miss Kendra Foster contributes to one of the more jazz influenced cuts on this dynamite EP. Clonin the Wheel also features Secret Army Axemen Marc Munoz and Mike Maloney, and BOZFONK-WEFUNK SOUTH staffer/beatsmith Jon Picken. But most of the fire is from Cornwell himself, and Bedrosian, who play drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, and most of the vocals throughout this surefire funk thrust of a disc.
Sweet Motha’Child - Bedrosian’s now defunct 18 piece funk conglomerate resurfaces on disc on the upcoming SMC the Best of 1999-2003. Though not encompassing the band’s entire career, this Best of album gives the p-funk or secret army fan an insight to Bedrosian’s pre-P music in his late teenage years. There are actually some great compositions and performances on this disc by Bedrosian and all the rest of the New England based group.
We thank you for your time regarding the many prized artists and groups, and the proud achievements of this fledgling branch of WEFUNK!
