Ladies & Gentlemen!! stop! lo! and listen! to the groundbreaking sound of the new eclecticism! Late in the summer of 2005, Jonny Sonic disappeared into the urban wilderness and now returns with Coop Resdent, a huge stew of horn-driven funk riffs, succulent beat-mastery, touches of hip-hop, traces of trip-hop, and (alas! and alack!) the Talking Heads' seminal "Once in a Lifetime"--all told, a 13-track opus of elastic, electroacoustic punch.
Spiked. Just listen.
For Coop Resident, Jonny enlists an outrageous ensemble: drummer Tacket Brown (Jerel), the horns of The Players Club (Kevin Seeley, Cliff Colon, Greg Koehler), experimentalist trumpeter BrassWax and vox femme purveyor Ms. Wings (FULL), drummer Russell Sandon (Mr. Twit), and 18-month-old Seneca "Coco" Williams, making her recording debuting with the most interesting vocal line on the album. As the crushing dynamism of the record sinks in and the Jonny Sonic live show starts to bore mammoth holes through the back walls of NorthWest venues, we at HandPicked bristle with anticipation, feeling huge things in store for 2006. Keep your radars attuned to the coming of the road show. Meanwhile, meet the Coop Resident...
