From: Bob Davis (earthjuice_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 2003-04-11 14:28:36
I wanted to take this moment to introduve you to Soul-Patrol's newest Sponsor:
The Clinton Administration and their new CD entitled:
One Nation Under a Re-Groove.
This new CD is SLAMMIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You will find the link for them in the Sponsor's section of the bi-monthly Soul-Patrol
Newsletter, in the right hand colum of Issue #1 for April which you all got via email, now
posted on the web at:
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Be sure to check them out et me know what you think of their music at the following link
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Here is a press release on them!
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Magnatude Records Launches w/ The Clinton Administration's One Nation Under a Re-Groove
Influential progressive rock label Magna Carta announces the launch of imprint, Magnatude.
The focus of the imprint will be a unique blend of jam bands, new groove and funk. Label
president and owner, Peter Morticelli, feels that jam-bands or new-groove bands have
developed a unique sound that is as creative and adventurous as anything in the Progressive
Rock world. His desire to provide a platform for these artists was the seed for Magnatude.
Peter Morticelli stated, "Magnatude will look to become involved with the same top quality
artists in this genre as we have with Magna Carta's progressive rock artists." In order to
launch the label, Peter initiated the first project and created The Clinton Administration
whose first release is entitled One Nation Under A Re-Groove.
Drawing on material from Parliament/Funkadelic, The Clinton Administration blends multiple
generations of artistry. The lineup includes legendary guitarist Phil Upchurch who is known
for sensitive, funky chording and riffs - Upchurch has worked with a wide variety of
musicians including George Benson, Muddy Waters, Michael Jackson, The Dells and Maurice
White. Lending a unique twist and talent as a turntable manipulator is DJ Logic. Credited as
one of the artists who helped meld jazz and hip-hop, DJ Logic has performed with such bands
as Living Color, Body Count and Jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood. Also featured is
saxophonist Skerik. A prominent player, Skerik has played with Critters Buggin' and Les
Claypool's Frog Brigade. Prominent funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield adds his fat backbeat to
the mix. Clyde's influential work with James Brown in the 1960's earned him the unofficial
title of "the world's most sampled drummer." Bassist Melvin Gibbs also joins the fold. A
former player with the Rollins Band, Gibbs has spent the past two decades playing with
prominent jazz and rock musicians. Jazz-funk keyboardist Robert Walter supplies his renowned
skills. A founding member of The Greyboy Allstars and Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Walter
has recorded with icons Fred Wesley, Melvin Sparks, Andy Bey and Ruben Wilson.
Peter added, "I want the name The Clinton Administration to be synonymous with this genre of
music and future Clinton Administration projects will feature equally stellar players who
will tour playing this great music."
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Magna Carta Records has been a longstanding Independent record label focusing on a variety of
progressive rock artists and is distributed by ADA.
The Clinton Administration
What do you get when you assemble a bunch of top-flight jazz musicians and session cats in a
studio together, who just happen to have an unhealthy obsession with Parliament/Funkadelic?
In the case of One Nation Under A Re-Groove, a storming world-class reevaluation of the
grandmaster of funk, courtesy of the cleverly named new-groove collective The Clinton
Administration.
Signed to new Magna Carta imprint Magnatude, The Clinton Administration brings the concept of
a funk collective bang up-to-date in the capable hands of some of the most talented funk,
jazz and hip-hop musicians of the last four decades - including legendary Chess Records
guitarist Phil Upchurch and the oft-sampled funk drummer Clyde Stubblefield.
The group's all-instrumental take on the music of George Clinton turns the groove up an extra
notch, with reworked Parliament classics such as "Mothership Connection," "Up For The
Downstroke," and the rousing "Give Up The Funk," and some of Funkadelic's finest including
"(Not Just) Knee Deep" and, of course, the signature funk classic "One Nation Under A
Groove."
Initially the unnamed group came together hoping to capture their shared Clinton-adulation on
tape. but soon enough the penny began to drop that there was some real magic happening in
that basement studio. The songs came out fast and furious and, in the words of drummer Clyde
Stubblefield, whose influential grooves can be heard on James Brown's biggest hits of the '
60s, "it locked right in instantly."
"We knew each other the moment we sat down to play, and we went right to work. We just knew
what we were supposed to do," says Stubblefield, of the project's impressive momentum.
The trio of jazz-funk keyboard player (and member of the west-coast acid-jazz group Greyboy
Allstars) Robert Walter, experimental turntablist DJ Logic, and blues guitar legend Phil
Upchurch create an eclectic stylistic melange - where old school, blues, funk, hip-hop and
new groove meet.
Guitarist Phil Upchurch was given the unusual credit of "decomposing and disarranging." His
killer riffs, honed over a 45-year career that's included stints with Donny Hathaway, the
Crusaders, George Benson, Quincy Jones, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Smith, Ben Sidran, Stan Getz, BB
King, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, John Lee Hooker and Ray Charles, not to mention his
own illustrious solo career, quite simply speak for themselves. When trading solos with
Robert Walter in full Worrellesque Hammond-organ mode, the result is electrifying.
"Everyone was bouncing ideas off each other," recalls Upchurch of the sessions. "It was a
great collective project. For my part, I was busy bebopping during the '60s and '70s so I was
less familiar than the other guys with the original Parliament/Funkadelic versions. But it
meant I could give it a new spin."
Turntable maestro DJ Logic also gave the music a new spin - quite literally - with his
unparalleled turntable skills and unique appreciation for the inter-relationships between
jazz, funk, blues and hip-hop. A huge fan of P-Funk, Logic's record collection boasts all the
classics from that era. He's even collaborated with the great P-Funk keyboardist Bernie
Worrell himself. "I grew up listening to all that music," says Logic. "I worked with Bernie
Worrell and I've met George Clinton. It's really special to be covering their music."
Logic is well-known for his ability to treat jazz and hip-hop like they were two sides of the
same coin, so his contemporary scratching technique fit right in there with the old-school
blues and funk of his Clinton Administration bandmates.
"All the guys there made me feel comfortable," says Logic. "Some of them I'd already worked
with in the past, for some of them this was for the first time. I was doing a lot of
different sounds and textures to come up with the best sounds to manipulate to what they were
adding. They seemed to really dig it."
Bass player Melvin Gibbs, an alumnus of the Power Tools trio and the Rollins Band; talented
world/hip-hop percussionist Chuck Prada, whose recording and playing credits include Black
Eyes Peas, Dr Dre, Greyboy Allstars, Charlie Hunter and Robert Walter's 20th Congress; and
experimental jazz-rock saxophonist Skerik - a member of Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Critters
Buggin', and Pongo - complete the Clinton Administration lineup.
Says Gibbs of the recording process: "It was cool, you know? It was kind of like old school.
I laid down my parts in just two days." Made easier, he enthuses, by working alongside
"pretty much the P-Funk drummer of all time" Clyde Stubblefield.
Mutual respect and open-mindedness is key to The Clinton Administration policy. With the pure
energy and passion its outstanding musicians bring to the project, you'd be forgiven for
thinking this tight-as-a-wire collective has been laying down the funk together for years.
Yet this is only the beginning.
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The Band:
DJ Logic - turntables & sound manipulation (Medeski Martin & Wood, Yohimbe Brothers)
Skerik - sax (Critters Buggin', Les Claypool's Frog Brigade)
Robert Walter - keys (20th Congress, Greyboy Allstars)
Melvin Gibbs - bass (John Zorn, Defunkt, Arto Lindsay, Rollins Band)
Clyde Stubblefield - drums (James Brown, Garbage)
Phil Upchurch - guitar (George Benson, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Curtis
Mayfield )
Chuck Prada - percussion (20th Congress)
Art Direction by Dave McKean (DC Comics 'Sandman')
The Songs:
One Nation Under A Groove / (Not Just) Knee Deep / Cosmic Slop / Flash Light /
Bop Gun (Endangered Species) / Mothership Connection (Star Child) /
Give Up The Funk (Tear The Roof Off The Sucker) / Up For The Downstroke /
Chocolate City / Hit It And Quit It
The Details:
Group Name: "The Clinton Administration"
Album Title: "One Nation Under A Re-Groove"
Label: Magnatude Records MT-2301-2
Distribed through ADA
Release date: April 22 2003
The Clinton Administration's One Nation Under a Re-Groove will be released by Magnatude
Records on April 22, 2003!
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Be sure to check them out et me know what you think of their music at the following link
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Bob Davis
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