Soulphonic Soundsystem

Music:

Member Since: 5/29/2004
Band Website: soulphonicsound.com
Band Members: Dave Sanford aka DJ Santo, Chauncey Canfield
plus various guest vocalists and musicians including Joel Kleinberg on Sax, Vocals by Valida, Angelique and Geri Soriano-Lightwood (Supreme Beings of Leisure) . If you're feeling the sounds and feel like you have a vocal angle that works with our material, give a holla. We're always looking for interesting guest collabs.
Influences:

Literally hundreds of lifetime influences but specifically on this project, folks like Bugz in The Attic, Jazzanova, Nicola Conte, Rainer Truby, Gilles Peterson, Turntables on the Hudson, Curtis Mayfield, Matthew Herbert. Quantic, Herbie Hancock, Milton Nascimento, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Masters at Work, Fela Kuti.

It's good to give props to the past masters and contemporaries who have influenced us, so here's a few we really dig, but nowhere near exhaustive: Bill Evans, Fila Brazillia, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Miles Davis, Curtis Mayfield, Dzihan & Kamien, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, Betty Carter, Donald Byrd, Earth, Wind & Fire, Specials, Roy Ayers, Matthew Herbert, Lonnie Liston Smith, The The, Jazzanova, Bobby Hutcherson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dom Um Romao, Sun Ra, Erik Satie, Beth Orton, Luis Bonfi, Ahmad Jamal, Elvis Costello, Brian Eno, Frederic Chopin, King Crimson, Tito Puente, The Who, Brian Eno, Terry Callier, Isaac Hayes, War, Xavier Cugat, The Clash, Les Baxter, Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Beth Orton, Marcos Valle, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Stan Getz, Blackalicious, Debussy, The Clash, Milton Nascimento, Fela Kuti, Funkadelic/Parliament, Gang of Four, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, David Axelrod, Darryl Hall, Herbie Hancock, Frank Zappa, Deodato, Talking Heads, Brian Eno, Blackalicious, Beatles, Alice Russell, Martin Denny, Charlie Parker, Perez Prado, Public Enemy, Nick Drake, The Smiths, DJ Shadow, Z-Trip, The English Beat, The Polyphonic Spree, XTC, Stevie Wonder, Magnetic Fields, Charles Mingus, Quantic, Roxy Music, New Order, Ramsey Lewis, Sergio Mendes, Ennio Morricone, Shriekback, Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Ursula Rucker, Sonny Rollins, Terry Hall, Lee Morgan, Mongo Santamaria, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, Charlie Byrd, Grant Green, and many many others...
Sounds Like: Melodic broken house music, heavily influenced by bossa nova rhythms, afro-beat horns, and ruff dancefloor beats. Stuff you'd like if you're into the jazzy tip e.g. Bugz in The Attic, Jazzanova, Nicola Conte, Rainer Truby, Gilles Peterson's show on BBC1, Turntables on the Hudson, Mr. Scruff, Bent, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation, DKD, Fauna Flash, Kyoto Jazz Massive, Suba, Jobim, Mitchell & Dewbury, St. Germain, Jazztronik, Amon Tobin, Fila Brazillia, Tosca, Masters At Work, 4Hero, Mark deClive-Lowe, Matthew Herbert.
Record Label: Convincing Woodgrain
Type of Label: Indie