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Blackanomics - The EP

by Marc Cary

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Taken from the forthcoming album "Blackanomics"
A celebration of the official music of The Chocolate City, GoGo Music

Go-go was what got me into music, besides the fact that I come from a musical family. The idea of enterprising yourself in D.C. as a young man came through several opportunities. You could be a paper boy, a sports cat, but you had to be something. You’ve got four quadrants in D.C.: northeast, southeast, northwest and southwest. The only way you could move around all those places is if you were a dope basketball player or you were in a go-go band or some kind of musical situation. You had a passport at that time. That was my passport to the world. What go-go could do, you could organize your group and name yourself and become a part of [go-go]. It was really very community-oriented. Each quadrant had a sound. You could play all over, but you brought your sound with you. There’s over 250 bands in D.C., and each band comes with their own version of the groove that comes from that area. What I like about go-go – and the difference between go-go and most other music – is that it’s an indigenous rhythm. D.C. is a slave port, you know. Historically, as I started to realize what was happening, it’s like New Orleans or Cuba is because it’s a slave port. The rhythm came from Duke Ellington, so it’s not new. It was codified by Chuck Brown and people like Ayre Raid, Rare Essence, etc. I grew up listening to all these bands and opening up for them. I had a band called High Integrity. I went from that to jazz because go-go and jazz swing the same freakin’ way. I love the rhythm and what I realized, if you go to Cuba, there’s that rhythm, that clave makes that thing happen. D.C. got a clave. It’s a real rhythm, like New Orleans second line. I take go-go real serious and I realize go-go has been a catalyst in a lot of ways for a lot of R&B and hip-hop-oriented hits since the beginning of hip-hop.

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released June 19, 2020

Mixed and Mastered By Marc Cary at Caryout Productions, Baltimore, MD.

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Electro-Acoustic keyboard wizard Marc Cary (#1 Rising Keyboardist in DownBeat’s 2014 Critics Poll).

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