In 2014, the Burnt Sugar Arkestra to introduced it’s avant funk & roll splinter cell … REBELLUM.
Gripping the sum of REBELLUM’s parts LIVE demands one apprehends these factions: The two-part super-fly vocal frontline of Mikel Banks & Shelley Nicole; those ace riddim section companeras, The Buckeye Bass Mack – Jared Michael Nickerson & our 主要 Man from Japan on Kick & Snare – Hiroyuki “Matsu” Matsuura, guitar hero – Ben Tyree, Bari Sax Goddess for TVOR & Nick Waterhouse –  ‘Moist’ Paula Henderson, Billy Ocean Tenor Sax Hooksmith – V. Jeffrey Smith, William Parker Trumpeter of Choice – Lewis ‘Flip’ Barnes, Vernon Reid’s Keyboard Liberator – Leon Gruenbaum.

Let us also give a shout-out to our Master Blaster Master-eur Tom Ruff for Asbury Media … Ya Heard!

File under Grown & Sexy Avant-Agit-Pop. The 20 songs on REBELLUM’s debut album “The Darknuss” on their own label, AvantGroidd Musica, burst forth a bloody profusion of exotic trace elements–warped soul harmonies, freedom swing horn play, maggot brained guitar implosions and arkestral loopadelics in the dark.

REBELLUM’s song titles loudly & proudly represent the ranting swoon of their Afro-Futurist insurgency: ”Start Thinking like An Afreakun,” ”The Darknuss,” ”Rock Star Amnesiac,” ”Who’s Loving You Now?,” ”Chains & Water / No Coloureds Allowed,” ”There Is A God (The Singularity)”and ”Young Frankenstank.”

The spirits of Sun Ra, Ron Hardy, Eddie Hazel, Gary Numan and The Emotions are all welcome here.