Music Chat E1 - "Movement To Egalitaria" Sampler

Our first IYOUWE Universe Music Chat Episode! Sample tracks from the new album by Norbert and Karen Stachel & LehCats', "Movement To Egalitaria", out now on IYOUWE Music! Music Chat gives you a behind the scenes look at what the artists were thinking when putting together their new projects. Hear about the artists' inspirations, process, personnel, and more! Get the album: iTunes: https://goo.gl/D45qAc Amazon: https://goo.gl/PWtF13 Google Play: https://goo.gl/GfRRyt Spotify: https://goo.gl/PsKvgD

Transcript

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Hey everybody, lenny white here, welcome back to the iue universe and today on our new music chat we're going to feature the cat's Karen and Norbert Satchel and their album is entitled movement to Egalitarianism. Let's listen to soul chapter. So guys, this has like a quite Latin 60 flavor. Explain. Well, this is a, an old song that I wrote a long time ago when I was in high school. I think I was a sophomore, junior. I was a kid and um, it had a different name at that time, but I decided on soul chacha fitted better and um, I guess again in the bay area there was such a hotbed of different styles of music, lots of Latin Music, Latin Rock R and B, Soul, Gospel, jazz, other kinds of music, ethnic music from other countries, Indian music and Jewish music, uh, Arabic music. And um, and I kind of felt the song almost a minute as a quirky kind of thing. I've always been leaning towards quirky combinations of styles and I like combining the RMB and, and I always heard things that way in the bay area. It just seems like it just happened naturally were r and RNB, blues, funk, soul, and Latin, and all kinds of blended that in a natural way. The personnel on it. Uh, I spent some years of playing music in the PDS, compute oban who were speaking of earlier and uh, Pete was one of the early people that I knew of that also enjoyed combining soul, rnb, Latin Rock and Gospel, all into one kind of music. So Pete is playing on that song. We're both playing. We're actually at the same time. So there's two Quiroz and the same time we're, is that, those of you out there that are listening, that aren't familiar with the girl. And I'm also on that song, is that an old friend from Puerto Rico, a bass player, bass player named Ricky encarnacion. Uh, who else? Oh, John Benitez, great bass players talking on there. Uh, I think that's it. Dan Gonzalez is playing drum set and he's also playing congas on. They're not in the same time though. The next track on movement to egalitarianism is entitled the National Anthem of ICO. What was on your mind when you wrote this? Well, ever since I was a young person, I've always of felt there should be a frame of mind and a frame of humanity where people could all get along even with their different opinions about things we could be in a calm state of mind and realize that in a peaceful sense of agreeing on the possibilities that everyone's different, but everyone is also the same. That we could be in one place where created things could happen and we could uplift the, uh, the condition of mat of humanity and a, of the nature of how we all get along and stop half the competing with each other and fighting it just because of our noticing too much of our differences. Who's planning on this? Uh, musicians on this, we've got Renato tomes playing the Urdu clay drum. We have Richie Flores on condos. We've got a Mike O'Brian on upright bass. We've got a Walfredo Reyes jr playing drum set. Um, we've got, uh, uh, Carlos. I'm Chong on guitar and Karen Statue on Alto flute, flute and Piccolo. I'm playing bass clarinet and saxophones. And some, uh, some ethnic woodwinds at towards the end of it. Who else am I leaving out here? Excellent. Oh yeah. And on piano. Excellent. Tosca allow Gart let's play piano. Oh. And we've got a unitary unior playing secretary that's very important to check. Razor featured towards the end. Now let's listen to sunshine from movement to egalitarianism. Karen, can you talk to me about this one? This son came to me in a Dream Team for after I dreamt it, I would sing it over and over so I wouldn't forget it. And then, um, so I did record it on my first movie. I mean, I'm a third ct. This is the new version of it. Before iT was a straight ahead jazz. Now it's janet who's playing on this one. there's an edsel gomez piano, piano richey, Florida is on carlos john on guitar and john beneatha's place unitary chicory. Me and norbert and dan gonzales. Andrea

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popsicles.

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Now let's take a listen to nine lives.

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Okay? Okay. Without thinking, I know this is about a cat. Tell me what your mindset was. That's the thing also, to me, it's got a kind of the, the pacing of the cat taking its time and being very cautious. It kinda has a pink panther kind of feeling to it. It's going to say that

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who's playing on this? Lenny white is the drummer on it. Really? Peter Washington is the Basis. It's the gomez is on piano. Snarky puppy is guitarist. Bob city was playing guitar. Karen's vocalizing and playing alto flute and see flute. I'm playing bass flute on it and bass clarinet. Let's have a listen to step on it. Oh, the phone, the phone. Talk to me again. Okay. well, coming from the music of the bay area that I grew up around, there was a, a big influence of funky music and uh, kind of that sound, the bay area sound fun and um, which I have always enjoyed and it always be a part of what I like to do. Not exclusively, but on occasion. And I'm the musicians on this one. Our job. Adidas on electric bass. Again, axel telescope on good on piano. Carlos john on guitar. Richie thomas is on congress on this one. I'm playing green and saxophones, ken's playing piccolo and flute and the two drummers. There's two drummers, James Brown tradition. We've got john. He is the son. Francis beneatha's is one of the drummers and dan dissolves as the other drummer. Cool. So we just turned five tracks, five samples from an 11 tracks cv that has done the name of the cd is movement to egalitarianism to listen to the whole project. Follow the links in the description of this podcast.