COLLECTIVITY
Seal Party (album release)
Comforting Chaos
Collectivity is a Bay Area powerhouse, jazz funk psychedelic dance party coming like a freight train for your mind and booty. These are seasoned vets of the music industry, banding together to give you a pumped-up, high-energy show of collective improvisation and expanding exploration. The Collectivity players have performed with world-renowned artists including CeeLo Green, Too $hort, Fantastic Negrito, Lyrics Born, Dumpstaphunk, Booker T & the MGs, and Pancho Sanchez. https://collectivitymusic.com/
Seal Party is a new band led by Chris McGrew and Kevin Seal of the much-loved, now-defunct rock group Griddle. At the Rickshaw Stop on June 30, McGrew and Seal will release Seal Party's debut album, MMXXII, a wild, ambitious song cycle featuring strings, horns, B3, piano, percussion, and luscious vocal harmonies. Seal Party's unusual hybrid of alternative R&B and art rock is built on thick, extended harmonies and propulsive syncopations. These two longtime session players have stepped to the foreground. To their experiment, they've invited some of the nation's most exciting musicians. https://sealparty.bandcamp.com/
San Francisco-based Comforting Chaos is a creative collective of friends led by producers/composers Liam Berry and Liam Craddock and fronted by artists Xanubis and Vazh. These core members have worked together artistically for many years, and are excited to begin a new chapter in their collective work, bringing together their wide array of musical influences to create a fresh new sound and provide a unique, high-energy live experience. Featured guest Afterthought is another local artist who has been forging his own scene, playing killer shows regularly at the Chapel and other great Bay Area clubs.
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All star 7 piece, jazz/funk and psychedelic soul unit featuring some of the Bay Area's finest musicians. With their high energy stage performances, this band has recently opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed in Mongolia at Ulanchabo Stadium, and has been turning heads touring throughout Asia and the States.
Featuring:
Uriah Duffy- Bass (Too Short, Sly & The Family Stone, Whitesnake)
Darian Gray- Drums (Fantastic Negrito, Booker T)
Ben Misterka- Guitar (Lyrics Born, Alex Han)
Kevin Wong- Keys (Jazz Mafia)
Christian Pepin- Percussion (Pancho Sanchez, Tommy Igoe)
Rich Armstrong- Trumpet (Boz Scaggs, Cold Blood)
Joe Cohen- Sax (New Mastersounds)
Freshly transplanted to San Francisco Bay Area from Shanghai, China and originally hailing from Virginia, Ben Misterka's story is anything but ordinary. Spending the past 6 years based in Shanghai, he is well known as a top call session and touring guitarist, regularly performing at arenas, major festivals, and intimate clubs alike, with leading pop artists, internationally renowned touring acts, and his original project "Collectivity". He is quickly turning heads and making an impact across California and beyond.
In 2017 Collectivity opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed at Ulanchabo World Music Festival in Mongolia, Headlined Candy Mountain Festival in Chengdu, and has recorded and produced a video album of original music. The first single to be released in March 2018.
Collectivity's original music is a high energy, jazz-funk, psychedelic soul with a rock edge performed by world class musicians. Carefully arranged and and uniquely written tunes with a jazz sensibility, ripping and soulful guitar solos, funky ass horn breaks, thick lush organ and synth tones, fat groovy low end, with a dirty pocket made for dancing while gettin yo mind right!
Misterka has toured through China, Japan, and the USA, playing with many acclaimed artists as a sideman, and his own groups. He has performed and/or worked with; Alex Han, Morris Hayes, The Voice of China, Tia Ray, Glen David Andrews, Tan Wei Wei(???), Leah Dou (???), Yu Quan (? ?), Anhayla, Kimberly Nichole, opened for Erykah Badu, Larry Graham, and many others. He has studied with Wayne Krantz, Fred Hersch, and Doug Richards.
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Seal Party (album release)
Comforting Chaos
Collectivity is a Bay Area powerhouse, jazz funk psychedelic dance party coming like a freight train for your mind and booty. These are seasoned vets of the music industry, banding together to give you a pumped-up, high-energy show of collective improvisation and expanding exploration. The Collectivity players have performed with world-renowned artists including CeeLo Green, Too $hort, Fantastic Negrito, Lyrics Born, Dumpstaphunk, Booker T & the MGs, and Pancho Sanchez. https://collectivitymusic.com/
Seal Party is a new band led by Chris McGrew and Kevin Seal of the much-loved, now-defunct rock group Griddle. At the Rickshaw Stop on June 30, McGrew and Seal will release Seal Party's debut album, MMXXII, a wild, ambitious song cycle featuring strings, horns, B3, piano, percussion, and luscious vocal harmonies. Seal Party's unusual hybrid of alternative R&B and art rock is built on thick, extended harmonies and propulsive syncopations. These two longtime session players have stepped to the foreground. To their experiment, they've invited some of the nation's most exciting musicians. https://sealparty.bandcamp.com/
San Francisco-based Comforting Chaos is a creative collective of friends led by producers/composers Liam Berry and Liam Craddock and fronted by artists Xanubis and Vazh. These core members have worked together artistically for many years, and are excited to begin a new chapter in their collective work, bringing together their wide array of musical influences to create a fresh new sound and provide a unique, high-energy live experience. Featured guest Afterthought is another local artist who has been forging his own scene, playing killer shows regularly at the Chapel and other great Bay Area clubs.
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All star 7 piece, jazz/funk and psychedelic soul unit featuring some of the Bay Area's finest musicians. With their high energy stage performances, this band has recently opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed in Mongolia at Ulanchabo Stadium, and has been turning heads touring throughout Asia and the States.
Featuring:
Uriah Duffy- Bass (Too Short, Sly & The Family Stone, Whitesnake)
Darian Gray- Drums (Fantastic Negrito, Booker T)
Ben Misterka- Guitar (Lyrics Born, Alex Han)
Kevin Wong- Keys (Jazz Mafia)
Christian Pepin- Percussion (Pancho Sanchez, Tommy Igoe)
Rich Armstrong- Trumpet (Boz Scaggs, Cold Blood)
Joe Cohen- Sax (New Mastersounds)
Freshly transplanted to San Francisco Bay Area from Shanghai, China and originally hailing from Virginia, Ben Misterka's story is anything but ordinary. Spending the past 6 years based in Shanghai, he is well known as a top call session and touring guitarist, regularly performing at arenas, major festivals, and intimate clubs alike, with leading pop artists, internationally renowned touring acts, and his original project "Collectivity". He is quickly turning heads and making an impact across California and beyond.
In 2017 Collectivity opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed at Ulanchabo World Music Festival in Mongolia, Headlined Candy Mountain Festival in Chengdu, and has recorded and produced a video album of original music. The first single to be released in March 2018.
Collectivity's original music is a high energy, jazz-funk, psychedelic soul with a rock edge performed by world class musicians. Carefully arranged and and uniquely written tunes with a jazz sensibility, ripping and soulful guitar solos, funky ass horn breaks, thick lush organ and synth tones, fat groovy low end, with a dirty pocket made for dancing while gettin yo mind right!
Misterka has toured through China, Japan, and the USA, playing with many acclaimed artists as a sideman, and his own groups. He has performed and/or worked with; Alex Han, Morris Hayes, The Voice of China, Tia Ray, Glen David Andrews, Tan Wei Wei(???), Leah Dou (???), Yu Quan (? ?), Anhayla, Kimberly Nichole, opened for Erykah Badu, Larry Graham, and many others. He has studied with Wayne Krantz, Fred Hersch, and Doug Richards.
COLLECTIVITY
Seal Party (album release)
Comforting Chaos
Collectivity is a Bay Area powerhouse, jazz funk psychedelic dance party coming like a freight train for your mind and booty. These are seasoned vets of the music industry, banding together to give you a pumped-up, high-energy show of collective improvisation and expanding exploration. The Collectivity players have performed with world-renowned artists including CeeLo Green, Too $hort, Fantastic Negrito, Lyrics Born, Dumpstaphunk, Booker T & the MGs, and Pancho Sanchez. https://collectivitymusic.com/
Seal Party is a new band led by Chris McGrew and Kevin Seal of the much-loved, now-defunct rock group Griddle. At the Rickshaw Stop on June 30, McGrew and Seal will release Seal Party's debut album, MMXXII, a wild, ambitious song cycle featuring strings, horns, B3, piano, percussion, and luscious vocal harmonies. Seal Party's unusual hybrid of alternative R&B and art rock is built on thick, extended harmonies and propulsive syncopations. These two longtime session players have stepped to the foreground. To their experiment, they've invited some of the nation's most exciting musicians. https://sealparty.bandcamp.com/
San Francisco-based Comforting Chaos is a creative collective of friends led by producers/composers Liam Berry and Liam Craddock and fronted by artists Xanubis and Vazh. These core members have worked together artistically for many years, and are excited to begin a new chapter in their collective work, bringing together their wide array of musical influences to create a fresh new sound and provide a unique, high-energy live experience. Featured guest Afterthought is another local artist who has been forging his own scene, playing killer shows regularly at the Chapel and other great Bay Area clubs.
~~~~~~~~
All star 7 piece, jazz/funk and psychedelic soul unit featuring some of the Bay Area's finest musicians. With their high energy stage performances, this band has recently opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed in Mongolia at Ulanchabo Stadium, and has been turning heads touring throughout Asia and the States.
Featuring:
Uriah Duffy- Bass (Too Short, Sly & The Family Stone, Whitesnake)
Darian Gray- Drums (Fantastic Negrito, Booker T)
Ben Misterka- Guitar (Lyrics Born, Alex Han)
Kevin Wong- Keys (Jazz Mafia)
Christian Pepin- Percussion (Pancho Sanchez, Tommy Igoe)
Rich Armstrong- Trumpet (Boz Scaggs, Cold Blood)
Joe Cohen- Sax (New Mastersounds)
Freshly transplanted to San Francisco Bay Area from Shanghai, China and originally hailing from Virginia, Ben Misterka's story is anything but ordinary. Spending the past 6 years based in Shanghai, he is well known as a top call session and touring guitarist, regularly performing at arenas, major festivals, and intimate clubs alike, with leading pop artists, internationally renowned touring acts, and his original project "Collectivity". He is quickly turning heads and making an impact across California and beyond.
In 2017 Collectivity opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed at Ulanchabo World Music Festival in Mongolia, Headlined Candy Mountain Festival in Chengdu, and has recorded and produced a video album of original music. The first single to be released in March 2018.
Collectivity's original music is a high energy, jazz-funk, psychedelic soul with a rock edge performed by world class musicians. Carefully arranged and and uniquely written tunes with a jazz sensibility, ripping and soulful guitar solos, funky ass horn breaks, thick lush organ and synth tones, fat groovy low end, with a dirty pocket made for dancing while gettin yo mind right!
Misterka has toured through China, Japan, and the USA, playing with many acclaimed artists as a sideman, and his own groups. He has performed and/or worked with; Alex Han, Morris Hayes, The Voice of China, Tia Ray, Glen David Andrews, Tan Wei Wei(???), Leah Dou (???), Yu Quan (? ?), Anhayla, Kimberly Nichole, opened for Erykah Badu, Larry Graham, and many others. He has studied with Wayne Krantz, Fred Hersch, and Doug Richards.
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Seal Party (album release)
Comforting Chaos
Collectivity is a Bay Area powerhouse, jazz funk psychedelic dance party coming like a freight train for your mind and booty. These are seasoned vets of the music industry, banding together to give you a pumped-up, high-energy show of collective improvisation and expanding exploration. The Collectivity players have performed with world-renowned artists including CeeLo Green, Too $hort, Fantastic Negrito, Lyrics Born, Dumpstaphunk, Booker T & the MGs, and Pancho Sanchez. https://collectivitymusic.com/
Seal Party is a new band led by Chris McGrew and Kevin Seal of the much-loved, now-defunct rock group Griddle. At the Rickshaw Stop on June 30, McGrew and Seal will release Seal Party's debut album, MMXXII, a wild, ambitious song cycle featuring strings, horns, B3, piano, percussion, and luscious vocal harmonies. Seal Party's unusual hybrid of alternative R&B and art rock is built on thick, extended harmonies and propulsive syncopations. These two longtime session players have stepped to the foreground. To their experiment, they've invited some of the nation's most exciting musicians. https://sealparty.bandcamp.com/
San Francisco-based Comforting Chaos is a creative collective of friends led by producers/composers Liam Berry and Liam Craddock and fronted by artists Xanubis and Vazh. These core members have worked together artistically for many years, and are excited to begin a new chapter in their collective work, bringing together their wide array of musical influences to create a fresh new sound and provide a unique, high-energy live experience. Featured guest Afterthought is another local artist who has been forging his own scene, playing killer shows regularly at the Chapel and other great Bay Area clubs.
~~~~~~~~
All star 7 piece, jazz/funk and psychedelic soul unit featuring some of the Bay Area's finest musicians. With their high energy stage performances, this band has recently opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed in Mongolia at Ulanchabo Stadium, and has been turning heads touring throughout Asia and the States.
Featuring:
Uriah Duffy- Bass (Too Short, Sly & The Family Stone, Whitesnake)
Darian Gray- Drums (Fantastic Negrito, Booker T)
Ben Misterka- Guitar (Lyrics Born, Alex Han)
Kevin Wong- Keys (Jazz Mafia)
Christian Pepin- Percussion (Pancho Sanchez, Tommy Igoe)
Rich Armstrong- Trumpet (Boz Scaggs, Cold Blood)
Joe Cohen- Sax (New Mastersounds)
Freshly transplanted to San Francisco Bay Area from Shanghai, China and originally hailing from Virginia, Ben Misterka's story is anything but ordinary. Spending the past 6 years based in Shanghai, he is well known as a top call session and touring guitarist, regularly performing at arenas, major festivals, and intimate clubs alike, with leading pop artists, internationally renowned touring acts, and his original project "Collectivity". He is quickly turning heads and making an impact across California and beyond.
In 2017 Collectivity opened for Larry Graham at Shanghai Arena, performed at Ulanchabo World Music Festival in Mongolia, Headlined Candy Mountain Festival in Chengdu, and has recorded and produced a video album of original music. The first single to be released in March 2018.
Collectivity's original music is a high energy, jazz-funk, psychedelic soul with a rock edge performed by world class musicians. Carefully arranged and and uniquely written tunes with a jazz sensibility, ripping and soulful guitar solos, funky ass horn breaks, thick lush organ and synth tones, fat groovy low end, with a dirty pocket made for dancing while gettin yo mind right!
Misterka has toured through China, Japan, and the USA, playing with many acclaimed artists as a sideman, and his own groups. He has performed and/or worked with; Alex Han, Morris Hayes, The Voice of China, Tia Ray, Glen David Andrews, Tan Wei Wei(???), Leah Dou (???), Yu Quan (? ?), Anhayla, Kimberly Nichole, opened for Erykah Badu, Larry Graham, and many others. He has studied with Wayne Krantz, Fred Hersch, and Doug Richards.
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