Seeking Singer

Novato CA

Description

Let’s Meet! If you’re familiar with Scary Pockets and Pomplamoose, adore old funk, groove and soul sounds, and you’ve got pipes, we would love to have you try us out and see if there is a fit! Seasoned North Bay drummer, guitar/keys and bassist/keys starting a mashup/re-interpretation live band project-a cross genre hybrid with its feet firmly in 2 camps, old school 70’s funk/soul and current and classic pop. There might be the occasional safari into arena rock or underground sub genres for one song on any given gig, but this WON’T be a regular cover band by a fair amount. We are now seeking one to several vocalists who have similar passions (obsessions?) for those idioms and love deconstructing “cover music” for a lot of fun and perhaps a little profit. The idea is to play live 1or 2+ times a month when the project is ready for prime time. We usually meet once a week for practice on Thursday or Fridays. Influences include bands in the style of Scary Pockets, Pomplamoose, Vulfpeck, Cory Wong, etc., and the original artists whom they draw inspiration from. A good fit would be someone comfortable creating her/his/their own parts that reference old school and new school tones, textures and vibes across different genres. Having a joyful taste for irony, absurdity and sarcasm will probably turbocharge our collective cohesion. Basic song schematic will be mashing 2 or more songs together and stylistic morphing the new idea by either changing the tempo/groove/chord progressions and/or phrasing of the existing song(s) and/or overlapping songs to create something new. Conflicting genres and irony/wordplay/whimsy that can be made to groove is the big intent. If you get the idea, and it excites you, then you will definitely excite us. Playing wise, definitely the less is more rulebook. We are mindful of Covid-all three of us are fully vaccinated and beyond our after shot quarantine period. Happy to wear masks and distance during rehearsals if anyone in the room wishes it so. We have a large a/c’d warehouse practice space with a quality p.a. in the San Rafael/Novato area. The goals, in rough order, are to: enjoy playing together, bring in singer(s) who are into our thing and have great voices, and as soon as possible, entertain, enlighten and confuse local Bay Area venues. Day job might be a damn good idea, just saying. The following examples give a decent idea of the general direction we are coming from: Pomplamoose mashing Bill Withers and Lizzo together: https://youtu.be/zYQPVCPCRYY Scary Pockets doing a soulful and funky version of Adele’s interpretation of Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love”: https://youtu.be/WProLXn-UxQ Scary Pockets mashing Steve Miller and weezer together: https://youtu.be/ZaghGOKi3Q8 Pomplamoose w/dodie doing a “Break-up/mash-up”: https://youtu.be/nUdFR7uFWkw Scary Pocket’s soul/funk version of Zedd and Kehlani’s “Good Thing”: https://youtu.be/AEAw1nPjhAo Might be important to say here that passion for the music will carry a long way, and we welcome singers who might be new souls in performing and playing out in the live music world, especially if this form of music speaks to you. And OH YEAH!-we are also welcome to the idea of singing pairs or groups, there would be plenty of opportunities for both ensemble harmony and solo shining in the band we’re dreaming of. We look forward to corresponding with you! Thanks for taking the time to read all the way to...here.