Kukumback - Afrobeak (Featuring The Daisy Roots Dance Collective)
Kukumback is a child born from the mysterious roots and branches of funk music.
It aims to fully represent the non-stop, spice-up-the-land, party destroyer vibe at any given chance.
The more funk you absorb, the more it radiates outward! 😊
The Music:
Title: Afrobeak [Make Music Day 2020 Live Stream Edit Instrumental]
Artist: Kukumback
(Music production by Rory Lemon and Jay Base @4MationZone studios)
Instagram: juannutkins_4mationzone
... Huge thanks and credit due to:
CrateRapids
Seun Kuti
Manu Dibango
Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
The New Mastersounds
Jungle Brothers
Zheng Drum and Ming
... for their contributions to amazing musical experiences, that this production piece has been influenced by so much.
The Dancers:
'Daisy Roots Dance Collective are based in London and were founded in 2015 in memory and as tribute to dancer and friend Ruth “Daisy” Morgan.
They are an inclusive performance group diverse in style, experience and backgrounds.
They are a non-competitive dance group promoting collaboration and positivity through dance!'
Melodie Brannan (Head of DRDC Chorography)
Featured dancers / Associated Instagram account:
Amber Scarlett / amber.scarlett
Colette St. Laurent / colettestlaurent
Emma Snape / emarghsnapey
Grace Kemp / graceelizabethkemp
Juliette Smith / juliettecsmith
karin Sakwanda / karin.kayinda
Tamsin Higgs / tamsin_higgs
Melodie Brannan / daisy.roots.dance.collective
... And in memory of the lucky best Jay Base.
'I can’t sum up Jay, or my imagination’s true version of Jay, in a few sentences ... but maybe just about in a 4-hour music dj session.
I think this is a way he truly liked to communicate too ... via music and art.
Totally bold in nature, yet reflective in cognition.
And in conversation, always responding with some kind of integrity, for better or for worse.
Perpetually times-four in his approach to any experience, yet not because of arrogance, ego or competition, but because of his all or nothing persona.
He’d effortlessly let you know if he liked you, your ideas and what you stood for … and yet remind you that nearly everything is an opinion by coming up with a new way of viewing a subject by challenging it with an alternative view point.
His taste for flavours, be it food, films or music is intrepid, explosive and vibrational to say the least.
He has the working mind of a great art producer rather than an artist.
He saw the suffering of the world and must have put it on his shoulders.
He was the base to my acid, and the acid to my base.
One in a million.
… so here’s to one of the rarest unsung teachers.
He will be in every freedom song that I hear and care about alongside the rest of the greats ... so this makes me happy.
I know he’d be wanting us to celebrate, re-connect with each other and make do with what we have, as long as you’ve been collecting up pure gold.'
Rory Lemon (LuckyBest)
Edited by Lindford Lowe
lowemotion.co.uk