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Chaant

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Member Since: 3/16/2008
Band Members:Chaant - Vocals/keys/production // Matt Vorzimer - Drums // Beck Burger - keys ///Shout out to Marylin "Mafi" Felix for her tremendous direction and contribution to the ending vamp in Electric. Shout out to Sara Renelik, Marilyn "Mafi" Felix, and Sylphir Charest for the Fire-Sugar-Water Background vocals on Frenzy. Shout out to Crystal Monee Hall and Moeisha McGill for their incredible vocal improvisation and choir work on the ending vamp in Electric. Shout out to TARUS MATEEN for playing bass on Electric.
Influences: Sting, Prince, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Metallica, The Roots, Dr. Dre, NWA, Wu Tang Clan, Easy E, Public Enemy, Ice-T, Notorious B.I.G, Afrika Bambata, KRS-1, Tupac, The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, Sublime, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Silver Chair, Pink Floyd, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Radiohead, ColdPlay, MXPX, AFI, NOFX, The Meters, Stevie Wonder, Louie Armstrong, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Johnny Cash, Taj Mahal, Reverend Horton Heat, Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Outkast, James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Ray Charles, Steel Pulse, Lee Scratch Perry, Toots and The Maytals, The Congos, The Meditations, Sizzla, Jean Michelle Basquiat, Ray Brown, Mos Def, Fela Kuti, K'nann, Paul Simon, Poison, Jimmy Smith, Talib Kweli, A Tribe Called Quest, Method Man, Busta Rhymes, Dali, Gaudi . . . _______The making of Electric was filled with countless synchronicities, parallels, concurrences, and tiny little miracles that seemed to guide it along its way. I saw this video during the early stages of creating Electric and was left CHARGED. . . So charged. I thought it was amazing! Klein's book shares many central concepts with the song Electric.
Record Label: Free Agent
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Lyrics: Electric (translations in purple)

Electric    by ChaantVERSE1:You wear make upyou say you make us freeyou say you give us poweryou say you give us voiceyou lead me one wayand then the other you charge me up so naturally but still I se...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:05:00 GMT

Its a Power Thing

It's a power thing.Power manifests.It is what creates all things creatable.Electric Power is a certain kind of power.Due to its flashy ness, we are sometimes saturated by it.Oh . . . how it assert its...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:04:00 GMT

Something Big. Right Now

I feel something right now. . . and it has something to do with these historic days that we're all witness to. This presidential election is nothing shy. These moments mark major shift in the collecti...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:56:00 GMT

Words on Electric parts 2 and 3

Part II of Electric speaks more of Electric Power in politics and specifically elections. It's about the media machine of electric power that promotes, slanders, follows, and sometimes documents an el...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMT