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Abraham Inc: Tweet Tweet
ByAbraham Inc's groove trinity was created in 2005 by clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who enlisted Canadian rapper/beat-master/multi-instrumentalist Josh Dolgin (aka Socalled), and the grandmaster of funk, trombonist Fred Wesley, who's been the back-'bone in the bands of James Brown, Bootsy Collins, and Parliament Funkadelic. Toss in some additional horns from Krakauer's Klezmer Madness ensemble, Bronx rapper C Rayz Walz, and other talented musicians like guitarist Sheryl Bailey, and the party's already started.
The music is organic, extracting the diversity of styles into a unique whole that is authentic and renewed. Krakauer's clarinet trills passionately articulates the music of his Eastern European Jewish heritage, which in turn is perfectly juxtaposed with Wesley and the band's funky James Brown-like horn vamps. The pocket is deep and Thick, provided by tight rhythms, be they straight hip hop beats in the title track or fervent Yiddish dance grooves in "Moskowitz Remix."
Whether it's "The H Song"a revised remake of the Hebrew folk song "Hava Nagila"or "Trombonic," which combines Wesley's rotund soulful horn, clever rap lyrics and Bailey's blistering guitar run, the music represents holistic funk music of the first order. From the cool vibrations in "Push," with its equally smooth vocals and solos, to the show-stopping finale, "Abe Inc Techno Mix"with its earth-quaking full- throttled dub-beat mixingit's easy to understand why Abraham Inc is thrilling audiences from Europe's Transmusicales de Rennes to Harlem's Historic Apollo Theater.
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Title: Tweet Tweet | Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Table Pounding Records
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