GLOBAL NOIZE
At the Highline Ballroom - NYC (4/7/08)
At 8:30pm, the truly talented ensemble of GLOBAL NOIZE
started the show.......the band featured the following players:
1. Jason Miles - keyboards, leader
2. DJ Logic - turntables, 2nd in command
3. Bernie Worrell - legendary P-Funk keyboards
4. MeShell N'degeocello - bass
5. Christian Scott - trumpet
6. Jeff - sax
7. Jerry Brooks - bass
8. Cafe - percussion
9. Paul - guitar
10.
Brian Dunn - drums
11.
Asha - Moroccan dancer
(special guest)
12.
Dashanera - Moroccan dancer (special
guest)
13.
Falu - lead vocal (special
guest)
14.
Rahim - guitar (special
guest)
Things started out on a FUNKY, FUNKY note with "Spin Cycle", a lesson
in funky noise, baba!! The tasty scratch guitarisms (by Paul) led into some
funky organ riffing by Jason Miles, followed by the irresistible cosmic
WOO-thesizer keyboard riffing of Bernie Worrell! Both Christian & Jeff were
HOT on trumpet and alto sax (respectively) as they sound like they were trying
to outdo one another! Even better was the WOO-derful journey provided by
"Spice Island", where Bernie funked everyone out of their minds with
some STANK STANK FUNKY INSANE keyboardisms for about 5 minutes, before Jason
stepped to "color" some of that FUNK with his organ chords! The drum
solo (by Brian) was really good, as well as the turntable scratching by DJ
Logic! By the way, "Spice Island" was a spotlight for saxophonist
Jeff, while the next song was a spotlight for saxman Christian...actually, the
real spotlight was the sexy Moroccan dancer Dashanera, who did some great
interpretative dancing. The best part was the great conga playing (by Cafe) at
the end, matched with the perfect moves of Dashanera! "Bollywood" was
a "ooze bass fest"....so much strong bass riffing (by Meshell and Jerry)
that even Sir Nose couldn't resist dancing to it! Falu was the lead vocals for
"Bollywood" and the following song, which also featured Rahim on
guitar and Moroccan dancers Dashanera & Osha....both dancers were very
skilled as they each balanced a sword on top of their heads and danced in
place! "Pool of Honey" was some sweet funk with some lively
synthesizer riffing by Jason and a super-hot sax solo...but the real treat was
the insanely powerhouse WOO keyboard riffs (by Bernie) that brought the
Highline Ballroom to a pile of smokin' rubble! The next song was a samba-type
tune that featured Dashanera doing some more dancing...the best part was the
great combination of the turntable scratching, drumming and percussion
(tamborine) -- just very funky and very tight! Global Noize played one more
song before calling it quits at 10:15pm.
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