Funk by Baron Retif & Concepción Perez

FUNK is coming
BARON RETIF & CONCEPCION PEREZ’s sound swims against the current, wisely taking the jerky path of sequences, nostalgic of a filtered house, with vocoders and escapes «Brazilian funk», Balearic kick, Parisian clubs, French Riviera « payotte » and transalpine disco. A flow of simple harmonies for sophisticated sounds. A groove from the origins, within a big bath of culture, dream of the islands.
Music of the coasts and the sides.
Their beats: cadences shifted from the following, subsequent their EP Cascades, in 2012, and their first album Navettes, in 2016. FUNK is a guitar-less album, obsessed by «clavinet», the one from Stevie or Herbie.
The origin of the word funk is to be sought in the sweat, preferably from a game or a dance, but always seen as the fruit of the effort, the one that leads to creativity and emancipation
When the city sleeps, the duo records electric pianos and drums of collection, vintage analog synthesizers, thousand-year-old cymbals, latin timbales and percussions from different horizons. Sweating & combined with the ordinal sequence of the big computer. A nominal box, the digital rhythm.
The goal is within reach: to take the beat from the artificial intelligences, to let the pulsation move, moving, dancing without robotizing, to think of not going too fast, to do it - never automatic - always elastic, it was the moment to record , many times in many years.

Baron Retif & Concepcion Perez
music producers from Paris and Midi France

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