2005 JUNO AWARD NOMINEE :: CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ALBUM
2005 CMW AWARD WINNER :: FAVOURITE ELECTRONIC ALBUM
2 TIME CANADIAN URBAN MUSIC AWARD NOMINEES
enlightening...
you on the many infinite details about these cats would make your head spin like a miles davis record on the wrong speed.
for as much as this [and more] is all part of the fusion that makes sekoya what it is, there's so much more.
put your dictionaries away because preconceived notions of sound just don't apply here no more.
i once read an interview with bootsy collins where he was asked what 'the funk' was.
bootsy's response was quite simple. it's an essence which can't be described.
it's you, it's me. it's everything and nothing all at the same time. pretty zen eh?
i liken bootsy's indescribable notion to the thing that makes sekoya what they are and what makes them so damn good.
it's the bare essence of life. a sound that celebrates the richness and density of life's possibilites in all its forms.
heartbreak, joy, excitement, love, hate, wonder, those fugitive pieces of feeling, thought and function that makes our existence LIFE. all of it is crystallized into one deep, dirty, joyous groove. un amour fou [a big crazy love], if i may get bilingual on your ass for a moment.
it's in the way amalia stretches out the vowels in the word 'change' and how that simple action and that delicate moment of breath emotes divine longing for that certain someone in our lives.
it's in the way kearley's break on '6 step' snakes and stutters like a firework in the middle of a halloween's night sky before coming to rest on the dancefloor, setting it alight with desire.
it's in the breath that vinstar takes before launching his sax into flight over some deep monstrous beats and tweeks.
it's all these things that make sekoya what they are.
call it jazz. call it 'eclectronic'. call it whatever you want.
:: james graham :: kuma :: art of beatz
