Listening to Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity and their new album Ancients Speak (LiveWired Music; March 17, 2009) is like walking down the street in New York and unexpectedly falling into a manhole, only to discover there is an African-American underground music scene where the African diaspora has knocked down all barriers between genres, placing creativity on equal status with groove. Afrobeat is rubbing against Hendrix-style guitar solos, hip hop has gone to Bahia and come back with the most primal electronic beats.
These are photos from concerts where Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
Femi Kuti & Positive Force / Melvin Gibbs' Elevated Entity Jun 25, 2009 New York, New York, United States Uploaded by Brian Lr
