SoulFeast Music is a joint production and label venture initiated by producers Brian Michel Bacchus and Joaquin "Joe" Claussell. SoulFeast is also a soulful and cathartic production entity for dance music production and presentation that incorporates the skills of these two producers with other like minds in the undergound dance music family, like Funmi Ononaiye, who initially introduced these two iconoclasts.In 1997, Blue Note records was looking for an A&R man and was able to coax Brian Michel Bacchus into accepting a position that lasted four fruitful years. More importantly, as to the formative chemistry behind SoulFeast, he enlisted friend and cohort, Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell, to remix several classic tracks by Cassandra Wilson (Run The Vodou Down & You Don't Know What Love Is), Ronny Jordan (London Lowdown), The Wild Magnolias (Battlefield) and Salif Keita (Tolon Willie). Claussell also enlisted Bacchus to co-produce two tracks by Japanese artist Monday Michiru (Chasing After The Sun & Mysteries of Life.) for her 4 Seasons release. His parting gift to Blue Note was the signing and A&Ring of Norah Jones' Come Away With Me which went on to garner 8 Grammy Awards.On the heels of this runaway success and the crumbling of the twin towers, Bacchus finally escaped the major label ball and chain and left Blue Note in late 2001 to pursue independent production again. The first person who called was Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell, who suggested that they form a production co-venture.And so SoulFeast was born! Recent remixes by SoulFeast include the Afro-Brazilian jam "Manhattan" by Eliane Elias, "For Fun" & "Universe" by Rh Factor [nominated for a Grammy] and "One Day (My Love)" by N’Dea Davenport. SoulFeast mixes to drop in the Fall of 2007 include "African Lady" by Somi, "Life Is Real" and "Down On My Knees" by Ayo and an ongoing series of collaborations with legendary drummer Chico Hamilton ("I’m Still Thirsty", "Magical Maiden") called Alternate Dimensions.
With the tag team of Brian Michel Bacchus & Joaquin 'Joe' Claussell, SoulFeast is on a lifetime quest to create and expose the dope jam; a journey that will take them all over the musical map into every nook and cranny. And we are all better off, for the world is in serious need of a SoulFeast to satisfy their aural and spiritual hunger!
