With Living Colour, Vernon Reid brought the funk to hard rock; in the Yohimbe Brothers, he reverses the ratio, infusing a heavy-metal edge into a 21st-century fusion unit. Formed in partnership with DJ Logic, the group approximates a cohesive meld of the varied sounds that might be heard on a Brooklyn block on any given summer day: R&B and rock blasting out of opposing apartment windows; rap and Latin music blaring from passing cars; turntablism and experimental electronics burbling up from basement laboratories. Through it all, Reid insinuates his rubber-spider guitar lines, the bastard child of Eddie Hazel and Ornette Coleman holding court from the harmolodic mother ship. The duo is supplemented by a vocalist and MC, and a keys, bass and drums rhythm section, but while they provide the groove, it's Reid and Logic who launch the thing spaceward.
Sat., Aug. 2, 9 p.m., $12, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
http://www.myspace.com/yohimbebrothers
Jared Nickerson on bass, Leon Gruenbaum on samchillian tip tip tip cheeepeee and keys, Maya Azucena - vocal, Gaston - MC, Don McKenzie on Drums ~~~~~ it's gonna be a fire!
Jared Nickerson on bass, Leon Gruenbaum on samchillian tip tip tip cheeepeee and keys, Maya Azucena - vocal, Gaston - MC, Don McKenzie on Drums ~~~~~ it's gonna be a fire!