{"id":663,"date":"2008-04-13T20:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T01:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2008-04-14T01:44:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T06:44:31","slug":"bifunkal-chicago-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/bifunkal-chicago-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Bifunkal &#8211; Chicago Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in Chicago, you gotta check out <strong>Bifunkal<\/strong>.  They are an extremely impressive duo.  Bifunkal&#8217;s music is a blend of Progressive Rock, Funk (duh), Reggae, Pop, and more!  Both the guitarist and drummer employed live looping for greater presence.  The biggest surprise though is the drummer, Hershyl Edwards, &#8220;played&#8221; bass with his voice.  He had some sort of processing going on that lowers his voice a few octaves and then probably runs it through bass effects.  Very convincing!  The guitarist, Jesse Cryderman, at times sounded like Dave Gilmore and Robert Fripp&#8211;among others.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"image664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/bifunkal.jpg\" alt=\"Bifunkal\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Check out their album, Under the Undone Sun, on their website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bifunkal.com\">www.bifunkal.com<\/a>.  Better yet, support them and <a href=\"http:\/\/kunaki.com\/Sales.asp?PID=PX00Z69CLH\">buy it<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re in Chicago, you gotta check out Bifunkal. They are an extremely impressive duo. Bifunkal&#8217;s music is a blend of Progressive Rock, Funk (duh), Reggae, Pop, and more! Both the guitarist and drummer employed live looping for greater presence. The biggest surprise though is the drummer, Hershyl Edwards, &#8220;played&#8221; bass with his voice. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}