LIGHT & SALVATION
Here's an acoustic song we played to close out a fundraiser for Obama on March 4, 2008. With so much fear being thrown into the mix by candidates lacking the ability to inspire their constituents, we thought it worth letting you all know that we are not and WILL NOT be afraid...and neither should you be. Freedom Forever.
SWEET REMIX
This is a great video we shot in ACCRA, GHANA and which wound up airing on stations across Africa, the Caribbean & in Europe. Check it out!
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Last summer we dropped a new video. Some of y'all might have peeped it on our boy Jamie Moffett's page, who directed this bad boy. Here's the video to one of the first songs we we ever wrote, "Sweetheart." Check it out:
The Core playa's in the band are: DNA - ld vocalist, rhythm electric guitar Jonathan Gramling - ld vocalist, Congas Kelley Nicole - ld vocalist Stix Bones - drums Alex Staley - electric bass Atta Addo - percussion
Nadirah-X & DNA, kickin' it at WME
Influences
Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Prince, Stevie Wonder, P-Funk, The Fugees, E. T. Mensah, Sam Cooke, Buju Banton, The Roots, Kool & The Gang, Prince Nico Mbarga
Sounds Like
Wailers/Black Eyed Peas/Antibalas/Arrested Development/No Doubt/hmm, kind of different from all of those...Why don't you see for yourself? Peep the videos:
So we've had a massively response from everyone about the recent video w/ DNA discussing our political life in this country. Still, we keep hearing this question in the media about whether young voters are simply naive in their support for Obama. We don't think so. We actually believe there are many informed and engaged young voters out there right now. Here's a way we to help give those voters a voice. Check out this latest video and join the movement at www.takebackthemic.com!
And of course here's the original video of our very own, beautifully bald, infamously political DNA getting "brutally lyrical" with a journalist outside the Obama/Clinton debate. It's been getting mad love on the web and we are proud to be supporting the Obama campaign (well, most of us...some band members are clearly cooler than others...ahem). Anyway, this is democracy in action y'all. Gotta' love it! Peep the second video w/ DNA's response as well. OBAMA '08!!! (Note: D added that last part)
And here is DNA's response to all the gazillion questions we've been getting on that interview, as well as a personal explanation of why he supports Obama. SI SE PUEDE!:
Afro-Diasporic Groovalicious Funkadociousness! If Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, The Roots & No Doubt were all jammin' with the same band, it would be this one.
Blending hip-hop, reggae, funk, and highlife, critically-acclaimed Global Urban fusion band Soulfège has electrified audiences from Boston to Ghana and beyond. The video for their first single, "Sweet Remix," from the album Heavy Structured (Plus), has aired in more than 50 countries across Africa, the Caribbean & Europe, and the band has been featured in such major media as MTV Africa, BBC Worldservice, NPR, the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, MNET Africa and ABC CHRONICLE, blah, blah, blah.
Wow that sure sounds like an excerpt from our Press Kit. Oh wait...it is! Ok, ok, so we've had this lil' page up forever w/ like no "real" bio. Why? Because we are too busy running around playing music and starting trouble to get around to it. Well today I'm a give you a quick summary. Soulfège is a band that is about more than music - we are part of a movement of young people who refuse to be defined by the crap mainstream media continues to attempt to force-feed us. We believe that there is more to manhood than ignorance & violence, and more to womanhood than boobs & boody. We also happen to think that music is particularly nice when made by umm...musicians (as opposed to so-called thugs, "real" or "fake," we could care less).
But WAIT, There's more! The kids who founded the band all went to HAAAHVAAHD (read: Harvard) and are SUPER SMARTALICIOUS! :) "What?!" you say..."You people are young 'Hippity Hoppers' (no, really we've been called that) of a brownish-hue (some browner than others...ahem), and you are highly overly-educated, profoundly self-confident and not even PRETENDING to be criminals??? You my friends are fraudulent! You cannot possibly be "keepin' it real."
Newsflash my yute. It don't get much realer. We are artists, we speak from the soul and we rep for more than money and misogyny. We love people, we love art, we love making music and making YOU dance. We are poets, lyricists, instrumentalists, scientists of sound & thought. We trade in ideas, not idiocy. We are opinionated yet open-minded (or so we think...). We are funny, talented, super cute, smart-as-hell and just as humble as lil' church mice. We swear we are intellectually gigantanormous, but somehow we still live in a sitcom. We ROCK A PARTY LIKE NOBODY'S BIZ! We will gleefully embarrass you if you try to play us. We will hug you after the show and squeeze your cheeks if you let us (usually the ones on your face, unless it's a Saturday night).
Sidebar: after much debate amongst the band and in the wake of a few unfortunate "incidents" we have decided the following regarding the squeezing of band member buns.
"Heretoforthwith there will be no squeezing of Kelley buns w/o Level 3 security clearance. Jon & Stix are married, therefore consent must be sought and approved by management prior to any squeezage. Alex is too young, you'll go to jail. DNA on the other hand is fair-game...squeeze away (no pinching). Oh, and if Steve is at the show you'll just have to get in line w/ the rest."
Ok, back to the matter at hand. Yay music, yay freedom, yay love-for-self and yay love for YOU! :) You've just met the best band you ain't never heard of (yet). We are honored. Thanks for reading, now go do something beautiful!
Thx for the add! It was great meeting you guys and to be able to see you preform. You guys are what music is about!(plus you survived the sandgnats that's another important criteria down here, hahaha)
Please let me know when you are heading down South again to preform, either in GA or FL. Wish you guys all the succes in all your future endeavors and I want TO SEE THAT CD IN THE STORES!
I am loving the Sweet Mother remix and video! What can a Yoruba sister say to my Gaana brother except for - thank you for even more inspiration. Keep on grooving my fellow Afropolitan.
yo this is Ty aka Macc Sicc tha don im sorry i didnt make it to your show but the tickets didnt go to waste i gave em to my mom and her and some of my fam went they say they loved it and as soon as she got home she downloaded the CD That why you hot holla @ your boy I'm still workin on my LP im trynna get a feat. peace and love
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Soulfege, thank you for gracing P-town with your presence! Was really impressed with how your sound and performance has developed since I've seen you last. You are definitely on an upward trajectory! ;-)
Hey guys, hope you are all doing well! We saw in your calendar you are going to be in Savannah - what about ATLANTA???? Let's do something here in Atlanta ---
Your #1 Fans here in ATLANTA! The Ladies of In My Pajamas Show!!!
