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“Guillermo Ate My Lunch” is the opening track of Audioplasm’s first CD, Heavy Meadow, which features Guillermo Cardenas on merengue percussion. Audioplasm is a collaboration of two artists from New York
City, Polarity/1 and Rubio. Together they have already scored the soundtrack for the documentary “In Debt We Trust” by Danny Schechter. Polarity/1 himself wrote the music for the award-winning Schechter’s WMD (Weapon of Mass Deception). This video, directed by Marc Wagnon & Polarity/1, shows their ability in visual arts as well as their musical eclecticism.
http://www.polarity1.com/audioplasm/index.php

Polarity/1 – “Bring On The Sudz” (Speechless)
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“With his minimal sound in a complex format, Polarity/1 gives you a huge musical massage. Notes seem to rise out from a basket of fresh fruit and everywhere you can ’see’ these mystical exotic sounds. While the first part of ‘Bring On The Sudz’ is a funky house disco inferno, a saxophone suddenly brings you back to the roots moving to an acid jazz feel. Towards the middle, the song performs jungle-type beats with animated saxophone solos giving the feeling that a new direction is afoot. After 30 seconds of this, it’s back on track in ‘pithecanthropus’ style. Polarity/1 then brings more change, providing listening clarity to a fusion of musical styles. ‘Bring On The Sudz’ finishes with it’s acid jazz signature. Polarity/1 forges his song like a clay sculpture. Orchestrating centrifugal instrumental forces. Absolutely genius.” – Nicholas Guida

The album SPEECHLESS by Polarity/1 changes the colors of the room. Things happen. Cheesy cultural artifacts sprinkled on sarcastic spaghetti. Mood music for non-linear equations and unlikely postures. Doesn’t require drug-ingestion… IS drug ingestion. The grooves moves and the sex is textural. Beat science for curved dancefloor.
http://www.itunes.com/polarity1/speechless

The music of NYC-based POLARITY/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites — a mash up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old; roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagoda, etc.) and West African groove science.
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Koko Dozo Graces Mel’s World At Le Royale

New York’s Post-Pop duo Koko Dozo (Polarity/1 & Amy Douglas) will be bringing their unique version of ‘Global Funktronica’ to Mel’s World At Le Royale on Thursday April 16th at 10:00 PM. Koko Dozo will perform for the gorgeous, lovely and talented Mel Merio who is having one of her fab soirees at the hip NY venue. With an interior that brings to mind “Rock & Roll meets Avant-Garde,” Le Royale is a place where the smart crowd goes to hear cutting edge music and meet other people with culture.

MEL’S WORLD AT LE ROYALE
Live performance by KOKO DOZO
Thursday April 16th – 10:00 PM
Le Royale
21 7th Avenue South, New York
212.463.0700
http://leroyaleclub.com/

Watch Koko Dozo’s January 24, 2009, performace at NY’s Tubway

“Holy poop, B-52’s reincarnated. Nevermind that they’re still around. This thing I’m used to hear in early 90’s to some intro to some crazy tv-show. How do you start making this kind of music? Seriously! Funk, boogie, soul, electro, space-thingy.” Danger! Danger!

“New Yorkers looking for music that embraces their city’s cultural diversity ought to check them out. The best way to survive in a melting pot is to get close.” Gasper Oliviera, GBH.tv

Koko Dozo is a duo of legally alienated New Yorkers — Polarity/1 and Amy Douglas — who create a sound they call Global Funktronica: a unique blend of electronica, funk, club grooves, jazz and roots grooves from Brazil, Latin America and Africa. Their lyrics are hilarious, provocative, and powerful, sung in English, Spanish and Portuguese, supported by music that is truly otherworldly, rich, textural and extremely funky.

http://www.kokodozo.com
http://www.myspace.com/kokodozo

“Home Sweet Home” is Polarity/1’s take on the classic Sir Henry Bishop and Howard Payne composition. Heavy on percussion and featuring powerful vocals, this rendition still manages to remain chill at its core. This is probably Polarity/1’s most sentimental song to date.

Download Polarity/1’s “Home Sweet Home” free MP3

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“Home Sweet Home” Lyrics

Some live by religion; some of us common sense
Some love their neighbors; some want to build a fence
Half of life is spirit; the rest is skin and bone
They all come together in the place that we call home

chorus
Home Home sweet, sweet Home
There’s no place like Home
There’s no place like Home

I work hard to make a living; it’s hard from nine to five
But it’s home that does the giving; it’s where I am alive
The world is very hungry; sometimes it eats its own
I’m going where I’m someone; I’m on my way home

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My house ain’t no cash cow; ain’t no golden goose
It don’t flip like a gymnast; ain’t liquid like juice
I watch my kids sleeping. They’re real, not Kodachrome
Not living on some property; they’re growing in our home

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The music of New York City-based Polarity/1 is exactly what the name suggests: conjoined opposites — a mash up of new: cutting edge electronica/hip hop/nu-jazz and old; roots music of America (blues, funk, country, early jazz), Brazil (samba, pagoda, etc.) and West African groove science. Polarity also describes the dual streams of Polarity/1’s musical output: songs and instrumentals.

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