The Afrofunk Experience @ Coda Lounge

The Afrofunk Experience,recent winners of the SF Weekly Music Award's Best International Act, have been the band behind Sila and the Afrofunk Experience for the past 5 years, providing songs and killer grooves for Victor Sila Mutungi, and being dubbed "The Bay Area's Dance Kings" in the process. This is the Afrofunk Experience Myspace page. The Afrofunk Experience has played many stages of the San Francisco festival and club scenes since 2004. We've been blessed to play the Boom Boom Room, 111 Minna, The Independent, Slims, Great American Music hall, The Mezzanine and many other live music venues in the SF Bay Area. We've played annual San Francisco music festivals like Stern Grove, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Outside Lands, and S. F. 's "Carnival". We've also been blessed to have played many world music parties like Earthdance SolFest, Sierra Nevada Music Festival, Salem World Music Festival, Cape May Jazz festival and San Francisco Best of the Bay and S.F. Bay Guardian's Best of the Bay Awards shows to name just a few. Home grown Afrofunk, AFROBEAT, REGGAE, AND ORIGINAL BAY AREA FUNK" A taste of The Golden era of Funk, R&B , Hip hop, rock, reggae, and afrobeat The band claims; "It's all FUNK to us!" The Afrofunk Experience is comprised of mostly native Bay Area musicians who hail literally from All "four corners of the "Yay Area"...and a couple of long time Texas and New York transplants.....and a West African or two! The ensemble's well-balanced instrumentation of dual guitars, bass, drums, percussion, and a trio of horns ensures a wide dynamic range. Band co-founder, and bassist Wendell Rand (Pleasuremaker, Afrolicious), leads the cast off with his muscular, low end dance grooves. Tasteful, precise and very funky drummer, Tai Kenning (Junk, Yacouba Diarra), is a serious study in afrobeat/afrofunk drum work. guitarist David James (Beth Custer), former six-string slinger for the Coup and Michael Franti's Spearhead, brings his explorative, sinewy, rhythmic approach to counter guitarist Ken Houses' (H. P. Riot, Wade Love Band), chunky funk rhythms and funk metal solos that recall the heyday of Parliament-Funkadelic. Saxophonist David Boyce (Broun Fellinis, Ronkat Spearman), trumpeter Mike Pitre (Bohemian Knuckle Boogie, Joe louis Walker), and trombonist Andre Webb (Howard Wiley), also "evoke powerful touchstones, from classic Wailers to Ethiopian-style R&B of the early '70s. There's a deep soulfulness here and the implication of cross-cultural solidarity."