New Roots Project w/ Flint Blade

Hard evidence already supports the notion that New Roots Project is the freshest musical creation to emerge out of the Sierra Foothills this year. Typically confined in the amazing, yet highly structured formats of reggae and world music, audiences will be astounded to see what happens when these players are set loose in this wide-open sonic landscape. We’re talking about acid jazz-funk fusion executed with both surgical precision and boundless freedom by an all-star cast. Firmly planted in the pocket while exploring breathtakingly creative terrain, this is just what your ears are craving right now!

These cats love feeding off each other as you’ll plainly see with the convergence of Guno Ronde on bass (Leo Nocentelli, Cyril Neville, “Mean” Willie Green, Galactic), Natty on drums (Groundation, Dub Collective, Freedom Funk, The Purity Attack), Matt Langley on sax, Aja Salvatore on guitar (Las Noches, Toumani Diabaté, Kadija & The System Krush House Band) and Jah Walks on guitar (The Prisoners, The Lionz of Kush, The Purity Attack). The symphony of delicious guitar tones and fluid, buttery interplay between Aja and Walker is worth the price of admission on its own.

Whether you’re a jazz connoisseur, old school funk disciple or a proponent of relentless improvisation (hopefully all three), New Roots Projects is just the thing to blow your hair back and make the dancefloor call your name. Their repertoire consists of some of the deepest jazz-funk cuts, reworked to such a degree that you might not even recognize them. Please come early for an opening set from Flint Blade – a live looping specialist coming to us all the way from Florida!

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