JASPECTS @ SPEAKYOSOUL LIVE! Review:

The SpeakYoSoul Live! event at Boss Ultra Lounge on Saturday November 21st was too awesome!!

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Man, if you weren’t then you missed a one of a kind event!  Let’s set the record straight here. When SpeakYoSoul Live! throws an event, it’s not just a regular event and calling it a party is not even doing it justice!  The best way I can describe their events is by calling it an “experience.”  So with that being said, let’s talk about last night’s

SpeakYoSoul Live! “experience.”  The featured act was the group Jaspects and the dj of the night was DJ Dynamite Dave Soul.  Let’s start with the Jaspects.  When you first see these cats and their instruments, you would think that they are just an average band; but don’t let the skinny jeans, vests, and checkered shirts fool you! These cats are way more than just a band hailing from Atlanta, GA.  These young men have three albums to boast about with their latest being “Polkadotted Stripe.”  My suggestion is to buy them all; the music is priceless!  Jaspects are a fusion of jazz, soul, funk, and hiphop and they supplied just that during their show!  These men started the show up with their intro from Polkadotted Stripe called “2012″
and slid right into “You Got Me Funked Up” which is from their first album called “Double Consciousness.”  From there on, the show just goes crazy! Their set took you on a musical timeline journey from now to the 70’s, 80’s and back to the present and beyond!  I’ll tell you, my heart, including everyone else’s in the lounge, absolutely melted when they played their rendition of “Pure Imagination.”  Yes my friends, the same song from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie!!  The Jaspects has a way of moving a crowd to the point where you are constantly up and anxious to hear what’s next!  Their fusion of horns, drums, and keyboards are a marriage of sounds!  For me, the highlight of their set was the electric guitar riffs played by the keyboardist!  YES!!  This man was playing the electric guitar on his keyboard and he was wicked with it too!

Jaspects had us rocking out loud, doing the butt, rocking our bodies from side to side, and unifiying through UNIFUNK.  All while throwing our J’s up!  Let me tell you, if you’ve never been to a Jaspects show then you need to check them out at http://www.myspace.com/jaspects and see when they are coming to a city near you and get your ticket asap because it’s a show that you
definitely don’t want to miss!

Now after their set ended, the night wasn’t over! Oh no, not by a long shot!!  This is a SpeakYoSoul Live! experience!

DJ Dynamite Dave Soul, also from Atlanta, GA, was next up and he shut it down in a major way!  I’ve never experienced hiphop, afro beats, reggae, and house soul all in one dj set!  DJ Davey D held nothing back when he put his magic touch on the 1s & 2s.  Everybody was up dancing, clapping, soul train-lineing, and enjoying the sounds til the very end and none of it would have been remotely possible without the ladies of SpeakYoSoul Live!!

Congrats to you all!  You’ve definitely done it again.  And to those of you that missed it, you betta check for more “experiences” to come at http://www.myspace.com/speakyosoulbham.  I promise you, you won’t be disappointed. :o)

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by Celes Jonez