No Time Like The Present: Rhett Frazier Inc. amalgamates merciless funk, gospel, and soul on their new album- Every Day Is Saturday

There's no time like the present: Los Angeles duo Rhett Frazier, Inc. amalgamates merciless synth-laced funk, jazz, gospel, and psychedelic blues in a way that obliterates convention - like spaghetti-western sci-fi funk auteurs produced by the Brothers Johnson and Burt Bacharach. Their new album full of grease and cinematic space- Every Day Is Saturday - is gathering acclaim, fans, and champions. End Quote

Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA (1888PressRelease) February 14, 2012 - Every Day is Saturday

The new album by East Los Angeles duo Rhett Frazier Inc.

There is no time like the present.

For Rhett Frazier Inc, every day is Saturday.

"When you live life by your passions, when you manifest what the world could be and don't abide what you are told it is- there's nothing you can't accomplish," says Rhett Frazier, vocalist, songwriter, and half of the duo Rhett Frazier Inc. "Like the title tracks says- Mondays ain't wrote down on my calendar." Donny Gruendler- a.k.a Inc- drummer, producer, synth-wizard, makes the point clear- "This world- and especially Los Angeles- demands your sweat and toil, so if you're going to work your ass off, why not do what you love?"

Every Day Is Saturday, the title track, hammers this right into your cortex. "Try to strike your bargains, with the world we've made- they bribe you with your life -and say how handsomely you're paid…" Funk: deconstructed, then rebuilt. Space and grandeur, fat organic synths, and a groove so naked and simple it seems - like all such drum grooves- impossible to play.

And just like that, you know the love and hard work that forged this album. Ebullient joy, the depth from hard won battles, the wisdom from having lost some, the suffering that transcends, the funk, the holy oil and anointed grease of soul and gospel, a cinematic use of space - these are the essence of Every Day is Saturday. This is the journey that Inc and Rhett Frazier ask you to take, and you will want to go with them.

Take a song like Pieces. On the surface…a blues? But actually- an ingenious amalgamation of jazz, gospel, psychedelia, soul, and rock - hard-boiled poetry set to music so primal one could imagine us sending it into space to beckon distant cosmic strangers to our aid. "Dear Planet X- this is us at our best." And yet, though the sonic landscapes are sometimes familiar in songs like WTH?, La Petite Mort, and the Pig- in merciless funk grooves and irreverent jazz chording - there is an otherworldly precision and a penchant to obliterate conventions that makes the album something else entirely. Clocking in at a ruthless 38 minutes and 33 seconds, Every Day is Saturday is a portal to another "thang."

Every Day is Saturday is passion made manifest-passion for life and music. But Frazier cautions, "Passion is not all lollipops, chocolate bunnies, and moonbeams. Passion has a cost. We let it all hang out with this album, but sometimes what comes out surprises you, when you give into it." Donny knows better - "But that's what makes your life full and rewarding."

One more thing- What's in the present on the record cover?

"What do you think is in it?" asks Frazier. "Maybe it's a gift we give ourselves."

"Maybe it's miniature airplane bottles of scotch," says Inc.

Maybe.

There's no time like the present to find out.

Every Day is Saturday from Rhett Frazier Inc.

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