The various members’ respective experiences in other groups serve them well as they convene to push their levels and abilities in Ghost-Note the group dives headlong into a musical exploration guided by nothing more than collective intuition. Every night is another chance to connect with each other on a deeper level.” “We always want to explore our music when we perform it live. “We are all jazz musicians at our core,” Searight says.
Live, however, the explosive energy is unmatched. The end product can be filed under jazz, but as Werth says, “We don’t think about writing music within a specific genre.”Īs such, the music and lyrical bouts can feel a bit long-winded on disc. Both onstage and in the studio, all members contribute to Ghost-Note’s next-level grooves, horn clusters, and fuguelike moments of cosmic spoken-word poetry. This eight-member core is further reinforced by a crew of rotating musicians who are on loan from Justin Timberlake, Erykah Badu, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z’s backing bands. The lineup also features a garrison of world-class horn players, such as Mike Jelani Brooks, Jonathan Mones, and Sylvester Onyejiaka.
This move toward a more naturalistic approach is a return to Ghost-Note’s impromptu musical eruptions during Snarky Puppy’s live sets. “It’s a whole new world of sound and approach, and it’s the way we want to make records in the future.” “We created Swagism with the entire band live tracking together,” Searight says. The band’s second release, Swagism, arrived in April of 2018 via Ropeadope, and benefits from a far more organic approach. It’s a concept record - a drum record with no drum solos - that was built through overdubbing. Ghost-Note’s self-released debut album, Fortified, arrived in 2015. “We started playing night after night, trying to take the music further and further, challenging ourselves musically while having a party at the same time,” Werth says. Los Angeles-based keyboardist Dominique Xavier Taplin, who’d worked with Prince and Toto, came into the fold as well. Brown, whose resume includes working with Snoop Dogg and Fred Hammond, joined as bass player.
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Ghost-Note was born and has remained an ever-changing outfit, locked in a perpetual exchange of energy with its live audiences.Īs the new group began developing its own personality, the duo set about enlisting a top-notch band, featuring what Werth describes as “some of the funkiest humans that we know.” After a series of personnel changes, the lineup settled into place, fronted by former Prince sideman Dywane “MonoNeon” Thomas on bass and guitar. Werth and Searight hatched an idea to channel their shared chemistry - and what Werth calls a “connection through rhythm” - into a new alliance. Their spontaneous outbursts amid Snarky Puppy’s sets were becoming a hit with audiences, so much so that their back-and-forth took on a life of its own. “After the shows, fans would approach us in awe and ask us how long it took us to rehearse what they’d just seen on stage,” Werth says. In October of 2015, Snarky Puppy percussionist Nate Werth and drummer Robert “Sput” Searight spent much of their time on the road, tearing up stages and taking the lead with monster drum solos night after night. Ghost-Note truly is a band of the people.
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