◇ image via WikipediaBrooklyn Funk Essentials
Brooklyn Funk Essentials is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Pharoah Sanders. Those roots explain a lot about how Brooklyn Funk Essentials arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Groove Collective, Galliano, The Brand New Heavies, Corduroy and Mother Earth, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into James Brown, Alison Limerick, Parliament-Funkadelic, Ben Harper and Erykah Badu, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 29 connections around Brooklyn Funk Essentials, reaching back through Pharoah Sanders and forward to James Brown. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Brooklyn Funk Essentials connections
Brooklyn Funk Essentials grew out of Pharoah Sanders, shares an orbit with Groove Collective, Galliano, The Brand New Heavies and Corduroy, went on to shape James Brown, Alison Limerick, Parliament-Funkadelic and Ben Harper. 29 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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