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GIVE BACK AT RESCUE WITH OSUNLADE TONITE AT SOCIAL CLUB
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:01:01 -0700
Last Minutes Update!!!
new orleans, LA - the birthplace of jazz music - is in peril. more than 1,000,000 are displaced due to the destruction caused by hurricane katrina. thousands are stuck within the city without food, clothing, or shelter. We invite you to make a difference & party with a purpose...
*TONIGHT* thursday, sept 8
RESCUE - HURRICANE KATRINA BENEFIT
starring OSUNLADE (yoruba records)
@ the social club, 1751 fulton st & masonic, san francisco
$5-10 sliding scale donation towards hurricane relief
OSUNLADE swings thru town for a very special evening of deep soul, house, and reggae music on thursday, september 8 at the brand new social club. come join us for a special event as we continue our effort to GIVE BACK to the thousands of people in serious need of help thru music. after some research, we have chosen America's Second Harvest America's Second Harvest - the nation's food bank network - to donate our funds. 100% of your gift will go directly to support the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
starring
OSUNLADE (yoruba records)
and local selectors
yoshito
ross hogg
afrobeat :: house :: dancehall::broken-beat
Please come out and support, if not for us, then for those in need. Giving back thru music.
Bio:
Respected and emulated New York-based producer, DJ, and label chief Osunlade grew up in a musical environment; as a youngster, he took piano lessons and sang in his church's choir. At the age of 17, he joined the cast of the popular children's show Sesame Street as a presenter. He later produced music for the program. During the late ‘80s, he started working as a producer and session hand; since starting out, he has leant his talents to records by Musiq, Patti LaBelle, Najee, India Arie and Eric Benet. In 1999, Osunlade established the Yoruba label and began releasing deep house productions of his own while cultivating new artists. For his first album, 2001's Paradigm, the producer hooked up with the U.K.'s Soul Jazz label, which released the excellent LP and increased his profile significantly as a result. Easily one of the most gifted producers of soul/funk-influenced deep house, Osunlade – an ordained priest in the African religion of Ifa – graces everything he touches with spiritual, uplifting vibes. Offering, a mix album released by R2, came out in 2002.
This is the first new release by Great Britain's Soul Jazz label — widely known for its dynamite reissues of everything from killer Nuyorican soul to New Orleans funk to funky and militant jazz — in years. This debut album by a New York-based house artist comes as a surprise. But it's a welcome one. Osunlade drenches his house in Brazilian, funk, and Latin colors, blending it all into a thoroughly modern dancefloor music that is as compelling to the ears as it is motivating to the booty. The singles from the set include "Blackman," a poetic move toward jazzy house with sampled chords from Bobby Konders' "The Poem." It's a late-night groove, laid-back but insistent, with a rap about Osunlade's upbringing and his spiritual beliefs. It's a kind of housed-out manifesto of positive Afrocentrism. Also notable is the traditional Brazilian tune "Oxissi de Focha Branca," with its drum chants and a call and response rhythm that retains its field recording primitivism long after the house beats kick in. The set closes with "The Deep," a driving house rhythm set against a rolling, one-note bassline interspersed with a two-chord, three-sequence vamp kissed by a harmonica sample in the groove. The harmonica is the lead "melodic" instrument (it's a Charlie Musselwhite sample), though it's just riffing in the cut and carrying the track through its intervals. This is an auspicious debut by a young cat who has brought something new and very different to the world from the house scene in New York.
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:01:01 -0700
Last Minutes Update!!!
new orleans, LA - the birthplace of jazz music - is in peril. more than 1,000,000 are displaced due to the destruction caused by hurricane katrina. thousands are stuck within the city without food, clothing, or shelter. We invite you to make a difference & party with a purpose...
*TONIGHT* thursday, sept 8
RESCUE - HURRICANE KATRINA BENEFIT
starring OSUNLADE (yoruba records)
@ the social club, 1751 fulton st & masonic, san francisco
$5-10 sliding scale donation towards hurricane relief
OSUNLADE swings thru town for a very special evening of deep soul, house, and reggae music on thursday, september 8 at the brand new social club. come join us for a special event as we continue our effort to GIVE BACK to the thousands of people in serious need of help thru music. after some research, we have chosen America's Second Harvest America's Second Harvest - the nation's food bank network - to donate our funds. 100% of your gift will go directly to support the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
starring
OSUNLADE (yoruba records)
and local selectors
yoshito
ross hogg
afrobeat :: house :: dancehall::broken-beat
Please come out and support, if not for us, then for those in need. Giving back thru music.
Bio:
Respected and emulated New York-based producer, DJ, and label chief Osunlade grew up in a musical environment; as a youngster, he took piano lessons and sang in his church's choir. At the age of 17, he joined the cast of the popular children's show Sesame Street as a presenter. He later produced music for the program. During the late ‘80s, he started working as a producer and session hand; since starting out, he has leant his talents to records by Musiq, Patti LaBelle, Najee, India Arie and Eric Benet. In 1999, Osunlade established the Yoruba label and began releasing deep house productions of his own while cultivating new artists. For his first album, 2001's Paradigm, the producer hooked up with the U.K.'s Soul Jazz label, which released the excellent LP and increased his profile significantly as a result. Easily one of the most gifted producers of soul/funk-influenced deep house, Osunlade – an ordained priest in the African religion of Ifa – graces everything he touches with spiritual, uplifting vibes. Offering, a mix album released by R2, came out in 2002.
This is the first new release by Great Britain's Soul Jazz label — widely known for its dynamite reissues of everything from killer Nuyorican soul to New Orleans funk to funky and militant jazz — in years. This debut album by a New York-based house artist comes as a surprise. But it's a welcome one. Osunlade drenches his house in Brazilian, funk, and Latin colors, blending it all into a thoroughly modern dancefloor music that is as compelling to the ears as it is motivating to the booty. The singles from the set include "Blackman," a poetic move toward jazzy house with sampled chords from Bobby Konders' "The Poem." It's a late-night groove, laid-back but insistent, with a rap about Osunlade's upbringing and his spiritual beliefs. It's a kind of housed-out manifesto of positive Afrocentrism. Also notable is the traditional Brazilian tune "Oxissi de Focha Branca," with its drum chants and a call and response rhythm that retains its field recording primitivism long after the house beats kick in. The set closes with "The Deep," a driving house rhythm set against a rolling, one-note bassline interspersed with a two-chord, three-sequence vamp kissed by a harmonica sample in the groove. The harmonica is the lead "melodic" instrument (it's a Charlie Musselwhite sample), though it's just riffing in the cut and carrying the track through its intervals. This is an auspicious debut by a young cat who has brought something new and very different to the world from the house scene in New York.
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