Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

Back to the funk: Brownout

2008-04-29T02:55:02Z

I've been spending a lot of my listening time lately back in the 80s and neglecting the funk, so I sought to remedy that today. I started listening to Brownout, the Latin funk band from Austin, and as soon as I heard "African Battle" I was hooked...

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Deep funk around the world: Japan

2007-12-12T04:04:40Z

My grasp of deep funk has always been of the "I can't define it, but I know it when I hear it" variety, but now I have come up with a working definition: deep funk is funk that pretends P-Funk never happened. How's that? Japan's Osaka Monaurail ...

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Deep funk around the world: Scotland

2007-11-16T05:04:41Z

With a name like The Haggis Horns, they'd better be from Scotland, and indeed they are. You can always trust a band with "Horns" in their name; horns make everything better! Rather than paraphrase what little I know about them, I'll just quote f...

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Deep Funk around the world: Spain

2007-11-15T03:35:44Z

From Madrid, Spain come The Sweet Vandals! As a five-piece they are smaller than most deep funk bands, because they lack a horn section. Singer Mayka Edjo makes up for it, though, with a voice that commands attention and would probably drown out...

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Deep funk and saxophones

2007-10-31T01:46:05Z

When last I blogged I was trying to decide what to do next from among three choices; I have decided to knock out two of them in this post and save the third for its own, as it is a rarity that I don't want to bury. So continuing the Deep Funk Aro...

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Deep funk around the world, continued

2007-10-30T00:44:04Z

I'll follow the Deep Funk thread from yesterday's entry in this game of musical association. Traveling down to the bottom of the globe, the Bamboos serve up deep funk in Australia from their home base in Melbourne. (Band website here, MySpace pa...

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Israeli music, continued

2007-10-28T16:49:20Z

After yesterday's entry on Teapacks, today is as good a time as any to feature another Israeli band, The Apples. The "deep funk" sound has caught on worldwide; the Apples put their own stamp on it by adding a couple of DJs to their lineup. This ...

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Cruisin' with The Sound Stylistics

2007-08-26T23:01:22Z

Still cruisin'--here's one that I would like to be my cruising-the-nightlife song, but it has become my de facto crawling-through-traffic song. Which is perfect, because it's so upbeat it gives me the illusion of moving even when I'm not. The So...

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Speedometer: the gold standard of deep funk

2007-07-30T03:03:21Z

One of the more interesting genre revivals to spring up in England over the last decade or so is "deep funk," which seeks to recreate the sound of American local and regional funk bands of the 70s. At the forefront of the style is Speedometer, dr...

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