![]() A rotating membership of musicians joined them onstage, including keyboardist Daniel Jones, xylosynth player Nick Werth, drummer Alvin Ford Jr and bassist Cody Wright. It's the omnivorous diet of J Dilla come to life in big-band form." Touring Matt Stieg of New York magazine wrote that, on Swagism, Searight and Werth "stretch their ensemble into all possible contortions, from CTI's disco to D'Angelo's funk. It featured guitarist Raja Kassis, spoken word artist and author Prudence the Auset Sneed, saxophonist Kamasi Washington and guitarist Brandon "Taz" Neiderauer. Swagism was Ghost-Note's second album, released in April 2018 on Ropeadope. Fortified featured Snarky Puppy keyboardist Shaun Martin, vocalist N'Dambi and guitarist Mark Lettieri, among others. They formed Ghost-Note and released their first album, Fortified, on the Ropeadope label in October 2015, incorporating influences from jazz, hip hop and EDM music. In 2014, Searight and Werth wanted to create another band that would focus on percussion and what they termed "conscious funk". Searight and Werth performed together with Snarky Puppy through seven albums (of nine the group recorded during that time). Nate Werth was a music student at the University of North Texas and a member of Snarky Puppy, then playing jam sessions around Dallas. ![]() Robert "Sput" Searight founded God's Property, a gospel choir affiliated with Kirk Franklin. Ghost-Note's two albums – Fortified and Swagism – both reached No. The group also includes bassist MonoNeon, keyboardist Dominique Xavier Taplin, saxophonist/flutist Michael Jelani Brooks, saxophonist/flutist Jonathan Mones, and saxophonist/flutist Sylvester Onyejiaka. Both albums hit #1 on the iTunes jazz chats.Ĭentral to the group’s airtight rhythm and vast musicality is the connection between Searight, Werth and bass wizard and Youtube sensation Dywane “MonoNeon” Thomas Jr.īook tickets to see Ghost-Note live at MIJF.Ghost-Note are a percussion-based funk, hip hop and jazz fusion group from Dallas, Texas, with a rotating membership based around founding drummer Robert "Sput" Searight and founding percussionist Nate Werth, two members of the jazz band Snarky Puppy. Two studio albums – Swagism (2018) and Fortified (2015) – have earned the group critical acclaim and a cult following. And the more focussed and listening the audience is the more we play with a little more finesse and more dynamic and we’ll take music into more intimate places.” ![]() ![]() “The crazier and louder the audience gets, the more fun and funky we play. ![]() “We like the music to be an open current between us and the audience,” says Nate. The band is an explosion of sound, catapulting funk into the future with a kinetic fusion of Afrobeat, hip hop, jazz, psychedelia and deep-pocket groove. We caught up with Sput and Nate ahead of their Australian debut. The pair’s jazz-funk project Ghost-Note is Melbourne in June for MIJF. “We enjoy each other as musicians, we enjoy hearing each other play…we’re conscious musicians and the funk we play is conscious.”Īussie audiences know Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth as the dynamic percussion duo from Snarky Puppy. Ghost-Note: “The Crazier and Louder the Audience Gets, The More Fun and Funky We Play” ![]()
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