La Casa Blanca
"Refined, cleverly arranged, and catchy as f**k” - FFWDWeekly
LA CASA BLANCA is the debut album from 8-piece funk-soul-hiphop collective FREAK MOTIF. To keep the spirit of their high energy improvised live shows, most of the tracks were composed, arranged, and recorded in one session.
********************************************************************************************************************************************
FREAK MOTIF got together in Calgary, AB, in the summer of 2009. Their first jam was a parade along 17th ave one Wednesday night. People came running off of restaurant patios to party in Tomkins park til the police told everyone to go home.
That energy started the Wednesday night tradition: musicians from all sorts of backgrounds getting together to play original music, always from the soul, always improvised. Sometimes there were 35 people, sometimes there were 3. Sometimes it was just horns and d...
LA CASA BLANCA is the debut album from 8-piece funk-soul-hiphop collective FREAK MOTIF. To keep the spirit of their high energy improvised live shows, most of the tracks were composed, arranged, and recorded in one session.
********************************************************************************************************************************************
FREAK MOTIF got together in Calgary, AB, in the summer of 2009. Their first jam was a parade along 17th ave one Wednesday night. People came running off of restaurant patios to party in Tomkins park til the police told everyone to go home.
That energy started the Wednesday night tradition: musicians from all sorts of backgrounds getting together to play original music, always from the soul, always improvised. Sometimes there were 35 people, sometimes there were 3. Sometimes it was just horns and d...
