Dumpstaphunk - Where Do We Go From Here (Official Music Video)
New Album 'Where Do We Go From Here' Out Now Available Everywhere!!
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STARRING:
Ivan Neville
Tony Hall
Nick Daniels III
Ian Neville
Alex Wasily
Deven Trusclair
Erica Falls
CREDITS:
Directed by: Jameson Mangan
Produced by: Jon Phillips @silverbackmusic
Additional footage provided by:
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New Orleans funk powerhouse Dumpstaphunk has released ‘Where Do We Go From Here,’ their first full-length in seven years, and undeniably the most powerful and politically pointed album of their career. To celebrate today’s release, the band is unveiling a music video for the album’s title track, which speaks to the overall themes of the project. “We’re all unsure sometimes about things around us and about our personal experience,” Ivan Neville told Gambit this week. “No matter who you are, no matter where you come from or what you believe in, we have some things in common and music is a common thread. Whether we’re feeling insecure or afraid of losing something or afraid of not getting what we want — let’s just look at it and do the next right thing and maybe things will turn out OK.”
The 11-track album features special guests Marcus King, Trombone Shorty and Chali 2na is now available on bronze vinyl, CD and available everywhere on all digital platforms.
‘Where Do We Go From Here’ is a sharply relevant statement, even more-so than the group anticipated during writing and recording sessions just prior to the unprecedented events of the last year. The band released the album’s title track “Where Do We Go From Here” in August 2020, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, earning praise from the New York Times for its “slinky funk backbeat” and “gospel determination.” On the eve of the presidential election the band released the single “Justice 2020” (featuring Chali 2na and Trombone Shorty), which became an unofficial anthem of the social justice movement. In March the band released an urgent rendition of Buddy Miles’s 1973 acid-fueled blues anthem “United Nations Stomp," featuring special guest Marcus King, invoking the vintage spirit of Jimi Hendrix with a touch of urgent musical angst that could be easily playlist alongside modern contemporaries Rage Against The Machine.
The band’s arsenal of classic and modern influences can be heard throughout the new album, a distinctive mix of genuine New Orleans funk, old school R&B and guitar fueled modern rock; From the slap-bass rave “Make It After All” to the band’s contemporary renderings of NOLA R&B rarities (the 1975 Blackmail gem “Let’s Get At It”) and early Seventies classics (Sly and the Family Stone’s “In Time”). “We hope people can hear the new songs and are inclined to dance, and inspired to think at the same time,” says Ivan, speaking to the new album’s delicate balance between topic material and dance-floor rockers.
Over the past 17 years, Dumpstaphunk has earned its reputation as a highly respected next-generation New Orleans musical institution, the type of band whose live performances have attracted sit-ins from legends like Carlos Santana, Bob Weir, George Clinton and members of Phish. Alongside original core members Tony Hall and Nick Daniels, and the new additions of Alex Wasily, Ryan Nyther and drummer Devin Trusclair, Ivan and Ian Neville (the sons of Aaron Neville and Art “Poppa Funk” Neville respectively) have built upon their family’s iconic NOLA legacy as they’ve transformed Dumpstaphunk into the city’s pre-eminent 21st-century funk-fusion export, resulting in recent career highlights like their July 2019 opening gig for the Rolling Stones on their home turf at the New Orleans Mercedes Benz Superdome.
LYRICS:
Contemplating what’s gonna be
Wondering which way to turn
Lotta things left to be learned
Complicating silly old me
The things I hold on to
Just let it go & see what it do
There’s no guarantee
In this thing called life
Sometimes we want to see
Just what we think is right
It all comes down to love
Where do we go from here
Let’s take it slow no fear
What we don’t know becomes clear
Baby let’s go somewhere
Fantasizing having myself a ball
Staring up at the big screen
Problem is I’m the only one
Who’s seen it
Realizing it’s not like that at all
Time to come down to earth
& feel what it’s really worth
There’s no guarantee
In this thing called life
Sometimes we wanna see
Just what we think is right
It all comes down to love
Where do we go from here
Let’s take it slow no fear
What we don’t know becomes clear
Baby let’s go somewhere
Courtesy of Mascot Label Group / The Funk Garage
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