Hot-Blooded Percussion and a Mighty Brass Sound...spectacular mix of
Brazilian rhythms, New Orleans-style brass band, jazz and funk.
Archaic Humans - MAY 31, 2024
Nation Beat set to release new album ‘Archaic Humans’, on May 31, 2024 on the Ropeadope Label.
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While maintaining the infectious, audacious rhythmic and brass energy of its Brazil and New Orleans roots, the band lights up the afterburners on its jazz chops and reaches into fresh new territory with new collaborators. GRAMMY-nominated progressive hip-hop artist Christylez Bacon from Washington, DC, and soulful South African singer/songwriter Melanie Scholtz braid radically new and uplifting strands into the Nation Beat thread on several tracks. “One of things that I’ve always been trying to do on in all of the Nation Beat albums is bridge the gap between the folkloric and the modern,” says Kettner, “connecting the past with the present while thinking about the future.” It’s a bridge made to dance on.
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