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You already feel like dancing again right? Who didn’t stop dancing – maybe because she had a mirror ball over the dance floor permanently in her mind – was Da Chick. For around 5 minutes before the world closed – more precisely on February 28th 2020 – the singer, songwriter and producer, condensed a couple of years of adventure, including her travels through Los Angeles, on to the intimate ‘conversations with the beat’, a discreetly ambitious album on which Da Chick assumes, through the microphone, that she works like few others, the production, the guitar and various other tools. ‘conversations with the beat’ was, more than ever, a conversation with herself, introspective but confident, of balance, with a more jazzy edge. Fast forward to 2022, many masks since, there is once again a light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not of a train thats coming in our direction, but more of a party that has continued in our collective dreams. The soundtrack? Da Chick, of course.
And what do we all need now? Funk, obviously. Not funk in the strictly musical sense of the term, that sinuous groovy music that any pair of feet can't resist, though this too is also sorely missed by the world, but funk in the most spiritual sense of the word, that music that is made of communal surrender and that is also part of the community where you dance: in the neighborhood, at a street party, on the dance floor, in the living room. It's time for us to all put our arms up in the air and let go and, as Da Chick sings, “if this that funk you want, then this that funk you’ll get”. Simple, right?
With the help of DJ Glue's tailor-made cuts, Moullinex's synthetic (but ultra-groovy!) strings and Gabriel Salles Silva's fat bass, Da Chick once again shines the mirror ball, mixing the weight of funk with the lightness of disco, puts new batteries in the drum machine, borrows Grandmaster Flash's tracksuit and, guitar in hand, like Prince, gives us exactly what we all need: a song that celebrates community, charged with positive energy, with a classic interpretation of those who have carefully studied all the masters. It is the first sign of a broader project that Da Chick wants to offer the world in 2022, a project that promises to be full of surprises and that will arrive, as always, with the Discotexas seal of quality: the new album will be titled ‘Good Company’ and will celebrate the strength of communities, of friends tuned to the same groove, those whose soul – Soul!! – vibrates at the same frequency. But for now, if this is the funk we want (and deserve), then this is the funk that Da Chick is generously offering us.