They just want to have fun, think TA is the capital of Israel and are already dying to come here • Jedi and Domi, soon at the Jerusalem Jazz Festival
Just want to have fun. Jedi and Domi
Photography:
Brian Lima
If there is such a thing as "millennial jazz," it is likely that Jedi and Domi are his thinkers. Or at least they are his main developers and poster boys. Texan Jedi Beck is only 16, but has 4 years of experience in musical production, New York, Los Angeles, and even a concert at Erica Badu's birthday party concert. Domi (Domitale) French Douglas, his co-creator, is not much older than him (19), but already belongs to the exclusive category of musicians who, even before the age of 19, received sponsorship from Yamaha, attend the school of music considered "Barkley" in a presidential scholarship, and The road also comes up with names like Thundercat, Jason Palmer and the late rapper Mack Miller.
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Domi started studying at Berkeley and immediately became a sensation on campus and online as her videos playing were uploaded to Facebook. One of the first phones she received following the exposure on the social network was Robert Spat Sirate, the drummer of Snarky Pappy (instrumental jazz composition), who was very enthusiastic about it. In January 2018, he introduced her to NAMM Show, the largest showcase in the American music industry. There she met Jady, who himself is a kind of wonder boy.
A month later, he invited her to Dallas, where he performed at Erica Badu's birthday concert. They played nonstop for a few days and nights, mostly jumbo together. But more importantly - he taught her to use Instagram! They put together some of their videos playing, and within a year it went from 100,000 to 50,000 followers.
The combination of the two of them together (just friends, thank you for asking) gave birth to Jedi and Domi - the next gospel in the world of Futcher - Sonic Jazz. A lawless genre in which they synthesize jazz, electronics and rhythm of hip-hop, with the feeling that everything is in control, but the whole business can also fall into a thousand different directions at any given time. Armed with no effort, from their Texas seat, they are mostly light-hearted and effortless. As if everything came to them quite easily and naturally (and maybe it is). Even the fact that they have become a hot bun among a lot of record companies, a term that should at this stage be foreign to those born after 2000, seems to them no more than a nice section. After all, they themselves understand that with all due respect to the Labels (and obviously they have), what brought them to the fore was virality. And thanks to the God of Instagram.
vfJams with JD Beck & DOMi
"We don't think too much about it. We upload things to Instagram, people respond to them and then they become followers," Domi explains the work method, in the absence of another definition of the creative and marketing flow they experience almost effortlessly. "After we uploaded our first video together, we saw that people liked it and got interested in it. But it's much cooler when musicians we respect or appreciate, like Anderson Puck, started expressing interest. That was the moment we said 'sailing .... it's crazy What's happening here.
"When we started recording our album and asked us to do our first overseas shows, we realized there was something here," Jady tries to track down the first moment he realized that he had broken the boundaries of the interstate. "Or when we saw that people were actually coming to see us perform. It was crazy to see people stopping us at places like Starbucks or airports. And we're always in the attitude of 'mate, you stop the wrong person.' It's weird, because it's supposed to happen to famous people. "
Which is even more obvious in your genre. Once upon a time, even jazz aficionados were not the cool kids of the neighborhood.
Domi: "It's still like that! In New York it's a little different, but usually in America everybody still likes pop or country. The response from people who don't understand music still stays 'Oh, you do jazz!' It's funny, there's an element of Surprise, I feel like I was born with it because my dad loved jazz, I don't have any musicians in the family, but my parents liked to listen to John Coltrane and things like that. No one taught me music at home, but my dad bought me a drum set when I was two He didn't know how to play, but took the time to find out and understand with me how to do it. He was my teacher without knowing the drum, it's psychic. But this is the house I grew up in. Our parents are not musicians, But my brother and I have absolute hearing and my dad wanted us not to have regular jobs. He really pushed us to go to the world. "
It is evident that Mr. Degall managed to raise the wandering daughter he wanted. Shetane is going to bring their explosive styles to the Holy Land this week as well, when on Thursday they will perform in our districts as part of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival. On the one hand, it is "crazy", according to them (and yes, this word comes back often here) - and on the other hand is no different from other places in the world, mainly because they themselves indicate that they do not know too much about Israel.
"Technically we don't know anything about Israel. We just know it's a state," admits Domi. "I didn't grow up at home with a TV, so I haven't really heard about what's happening to you. I'm excited, but the only part that scares me when visiting is the long flight. I have a friend who very much loves Israel and has been to a lot of parties in the capital, Tel Aviv."
Jerusalem is the capital, but Tel Aviv represents us not bad at all.
"What's the distance between them? It's fun at all to get to a place we haven't been to yet. So far, we haven't visited the Middle East or Asia."
Talk about you in terms of "reinventing jazz." It's a piece of weight to carry on young shoulders.
Jedi: "It's my favorite compliment. But I don't think we're trying to reinvent jazz music, we do what we want to do. I think the goal is not to sound like anything else. It's a significant part of who we are, because we're a little weird But it's a huge compliment because everything sounds a bit similar now, so it's cool to start something new. Maybe when you tell people we do hip-hop, jazz and fast fank it sounds weird to people, but we say - if you like it you should Go for it. I grew up on a lot of things, even swing and softer things. But we didn't consciously come up with something new. We have effects and are evident throughout. That's why our sound weird, but I like it that way. "
Domi: "Every generation has a new jazz, everyone renews it. The meaning of 'reinventing jazz' is that we just continue it."
How would you describe your appearance to someone you don't know?
"We live in our room, record songs, play, laugh and cry .... So we just plan on having fun and giving people what we do in our room. We usually do what we want. Sometimes we go fast, sometimes slowly for no reason, but We try to make it musical if we can. We just want to have fun. "
Jedi and Domi will be performing at the New Love Exhibition Hall on December 4 and at the Impressionist Art Hall as part of the Jerusalem Jazz Festival.
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