Name: Fatwas - Live at Boom Boom Room by El Metate
Duration: 8 min 27 s
Description: El Metate plays one of their original heaters "Fatwas" for a rabid audience at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. Recorded November 10, 2017

Devonne Harris (DJ Harrison)-Keys
Keith Askey-Guitar
Corey Fonville-Drums
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
Special guest***Nicholas Payton

The Backwards Step Ft Nicholas Payton

DJ Harrison-Keys
Corey Fonville-Drums
Keith Askey-Guitar
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
Recorded at Jellowstone Studios in Richmond,VA 
From our album "All Purpose Music" 


Blue Ridge

DJ Harrison-Keys,Hand Claps
Keith Askey-Guitar,Hand Claps
Andrew Randazzo-Bass,Hand Claps
Corey Fonville-Drums,Hand Claps
Reggie Pace-Percussion,Hand Claps***Special Guest

Sticky July

our take on an RVA anthem.
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
DJ Harrison-Keys
Keith Askey-Guitar
Corey Fonville-Drums

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DJ Harrison-Keys 
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
Keith Askey-Guitar
Corey Fonville-Drums 

Sleigh Ride

Virginia Noir

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Marcus Tenney-Saxophone
DJ Harrison-Rhodes/Keyboards
Morgan Burrs-Guitar
Andrew Randazzo-Bass
Corey Fonville-Drums

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El Metate plays one of their original heaters "Fatwas" for a rabid audience at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco. Recorded November 10, 2017

Fatwas - Live at Boom Boom Room

Kamaal Williams has almost single handedly made jazz cool again. The exceptional keys player first did so as part of the now sadly disbanded Yussef Kamaal. Their debut album Black Focus was widely heralded as a modern great, and will soon be followed up by The Return, which finds Williams link with bassist Pete Martin, drummer MckNasty and sound engineer Richard Samuels. It is said to be a natural successor that deals in the sounds of the London streets as well as plenty of visionary jazz. Williams himself also makes soul infused broken beats and house as Henry Wu on labels like MCDE and Eglo and plays mesmeric live shows, so is one of the most vital characters in the modern music landscape. 

Before he plays for us a Lente Kabinet he has served up a special one hour mix that offers up plenty of his inspirations and influences. From high speed jazz funk to languid, worldly jazz via transcendental guitars and summery soul, it bares all the beautiful hallmarks of Williams’s own music and makes perfect sense in warm weather.

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There are next level, life affirming bands out there...and then there's El Metate.

Since 2013, El Metate explored the outer realms of psychedelic funk through stop-on-a-dime original songs and interpretations of rare groove classics awash in a haze of soaring guitar, Hammond Organ, and Fender Rhodes. El Metate's music is not just a trip across the West Coast, but an intergalactic journey narrated by organ and horn stabs with a backbeat that fuels the funky rocket ride throughout.

After headlining sold-out shows to enthusiastic (if not rabid) audiences and sharing the stage with Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Monophonics, Tea Leaf Green, Robert Walter, Con Brio, Wil Blades, Adam Deitch, and more, El Metate has begun to take the show on the road. With a West Coast tour under their belts and a follow up LP slated for fall 2018, these musical retrofuturists are ready to share their music the masses. It's a sound, it's a presence, it's a movement. El Metate—remember that name.

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