Smoota with guests Dirty Spells & Iffy South at The Cobalt
Date/Time: Jun 10 2016, 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm
Vancouver, The CobaltAge: 19+
How many licks does it take to get to the center of Smoota? He's not telling, but he welcomes you to find out. Most tales of love portray the first glance, the first laugh, the first kiss. But they trail off when the lights go out. Smoota sings love songs that tell the whole story — from first glance to first spank to last sigh. Nothing is out of bounds if it's true.
Smoota's music has been described as “hyper-sexed, sensual alt-soul grooves" (Time Out New York) and "an excellent example of how the libido sounds" (San Diego Reader).
Other Music in NYC praised Smoota's debut LP FETISHES (2013, Body To Body Records): “Combines the slinky DIY funk grooves of Shuggie Otis with the offbeat, trippy psychedelic stoner charm of James Pants, all topped off with a sly pervy streak that winks toward Serge Gainsbourg and the P-Funk mob….Smooth, laidback soul and funk that's slightly gritty at the edges; he's a skilled musician with the chops to pull this off."
Smoota plays with acclaimed art rock band TV on the Radio.
Smoota performed with Sufjan Stevens on his trombone-heavy Age of Adz tour (2010-11) and has played and/or recorded with Run The Jewels, Spoon, Miike Snow, Elvis Costello, El-P, Pretty Lights, Deer Tick, MNDR, Pharaoh Monche, Gordan Gano of the Violent Femmes, Akron/Family, Bebel Gilberto, Angelique Kidjo, The Bogmen, Red Baraat, Steve Arrington, Cee-Lo, Antibalas, Chin Chin and many others.
Smoota also played trombone and keyboards in Fela!, the Broadway musical directed by choreographer Bill T. Jones about the life of Nigerian Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Halloween 2009, he joined Sharon Jones and members of the Dap-Kings to help Phish cover the Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street, documented in the 2010 film Phish 3D. And in 2010, Smoota played trombone and acted in a stage opera version of Melvin Van Peebles' proto-blaxploitation flick Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Van Peebles himself and featuring music from Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, the cosmic freak soul group led by Greg Tate (co-founder of the Black Rock Coalition with Living Colour's Vernon Reid).
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