For all the fans of YOHIMBE BROTHERS - we also have a Yohimbe Brothers Facebook page.

Also, Vernon Reid has a page as does DJ Logic.

THANKS TO EVERYONE DURING THIS RECENT TOUR! MUCH LOVE!

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Featured Artist: DVD: Yohimbe Brothers Feat. Vernon Reid & DJ Logic
CD Title: A Film By Jerome de Missolz
Year: 2008
Record Label: La Huit Presents: Freedom Now Collection
Style: Progressive

Review:
Here, French director Jerome de Missolz presents a trippy and psychedelic film of the Yohimbe Brothers in concert.  Featuring guitar hero Vernon Reid and turntable-master, DJ Logic, the band's highly energized brand of funk, rap, metal, and Latin music generate lots of high-heat throughout.  However, Mathieu Foldes post-production synthesis of colors, fades and overlays of the actual footage rhymes with the overall musicality of the event.  Hence, the marketing verbiage advises that we should "listen to the film.watch the music."
The overall experience is suitable for the film's fifty-minute running time. Thankfully, the editors and producers didn't belabor the point.  But the total package reflects the band's high-octane gait, chock full of driving pulses and Latasha Diggs' good-natured rap and soul-drenched vocals.  And at times, Reid slams the proceedings into overdrive via his fuzz-toned, sustain based riffs while steering the band through knotty unison choruses.
Foldes film manipulations adhere to the variable flows, whether Logic is spinning a fusion of warbling and scratch sounds or keyboardist Leon Gruenbaum decelerates the unit's momentum with ethereal EFX textures.  While some of Foldes' VJ techniques might elicit notions of a bygone era, he works his magic in parallel with the musicians' thoroughly hip mode of attack. For subsequent listens you can always leave the TV monitor off and just groove to the upbeat sounds of this undeniably, exhilarating quintet.

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Lead guitarist supreme, VERNON REID!!!!!!




NOTE: Pardon my review if it's a little on the "thin" side......this is the first time that I've checked out the Yohimbe Brothers and
I'm not familiar with their stuff. My best description of what I heard this night was that The Yohimbe Bros. are some BAD-A** MUSICIANS
who sounded like some rock, experimental & dub ALL INJECTED WITH A LARGE DOSE OF CRACK!!!!

YES, every musician in this band was splendid, especially Vernon Reid (guitar), Jared (bass) and Don McKenzie (drums). Maya Azucena sounded
beautiful as lead vocalist on R&B gems like "More From Life", and she seemed to connect well with the audience. "BamaLamb" was a nice,
Middle Eastern-tinged rock tune, while "Smoke & Dust" benefited the melodica stylings of Leon (think of Bernie Worrell on
Funkadelic's "If You Don't Like The Effects, Don't Produce The Cause")! "Signed Fictitious" was a powerful, nasty heavy rock tune featuring
the rap stylings of Gaston, the brute-force powerful drum slaying of Don McKenzie, the heavy bass rumbling of Jared, and the fiery-hot
lead axe riffing of Mr. Vernon Reid! Somewhere in the middle of the set, the music of James Brown's "Popcorn With a Feeling" began playing
and people in the front were jamming to the smooth-paced JB groove (thanks DJ Logic, who kept things sounding interesting with his
turntable scratching and samples)! "Psychopathia Mojosexuality" was another funk-rock scorcher, featuring Vernon on ferocious lead guitarisms!
The Yohimbe Brothers show started at 11:15pm and ended around 12:30am.

IF YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO CATCH THE YOHIMBE BROTHERS LIVE, BY ALL MEANS "DO SO"!!! YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!!

Master of the wheelz of steel, DJ LOGIC!!!!!!


SET LIST:

1. Invitation (to a Situation)
   
2. Shine For Me
   
3. Secret Frequency
   
4. More From Life
   
5. BamaLamb
   
6. 30 Spokes
   
7. Smoke & Dust
   
8. Signed Fictitious
   
9. No Pistolas
   
10. Prelude to a Diss
    
11. Psychopathia Mojosexuality
    

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http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080804_Yohimbe_Brothers_play_North_Star_Bar.html

Yohimbe Brothers play North Star Bar

By David R. Adler

For The Inquirer

In torn jeans and fedora, guitarist Vernon Reid faced a sparse crowd Saturday at North Star Bar, but he played with undiminished energy. This was Yohimbe Brother Number One.

Across the stage, DJ Logic (Jason Kibler) manned turntables, shoring up the rhythms, layering samples and effects. According to the band introductions, this was also Yohimbe Brother Number One.

No hierarchies here.

With two albums (Front End Lifter and The Tao of Yo) and a new DVD (Freedom Now) to their credit, the Yohimbe Brothers have taken stock of crumbling genre barriers in their effort to crumble them a bit more.

Although the project involves a full band, Reid and Logic are co-instigators, with eclectic resumes and an interest in soldering heavy metal, hip-hop, dub, funk, dance music and ethereal electronica into something personal and relentlessly current. It's a junkyard aesthetic, girded by an ironic sort of precision.

At North Star, bassist Jared Nickerson and drummer Don McKenzie brought hammer-like force and focus to shifting beats. ..board and laptop, Leon Gruenbaum fleshed out the harmony but also joined Logic in an abstract, textural role.

Maya Azucena, the statuesque front woman (and self-described Yohimbe Brother sister), was in confident voice, swerving from the rapid-fire rhythmic punch of "Shine for Me" to the shout-along chorus of "More From Life" and even the Spanish-language reggae of "No Pistolas." Gaston, from the rap group Us3, broke in with rhymes on several numbers.

The songs had a certain improvisational give-and-take, giving Reid ample opportunity to shred on guitar, injecting tart blues phrases, metal hyperspeed picking and jazz-inflected atonality into the picture.

Even if small, the crowd was dedicated and ready to dance, meeting the question "How you doin' out there?" with determined, affirmative shouts.

With the band Living Colour, Reid came as near to rock stardom as a disciple of Ornette Coleman and James Blood Ulmer probably ever could. Logic has pursued an analogous course, bringing turntables into jazz and rock environments (Medeski, Martin & Wood, Uri Caine, Wallace Roney). The common denominator? Pushing black music idioms into unforeseen, experimental spaces, a process somehow radical and traditional.

Yohimbe in the House

by Craig D. Lindsey

Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and turntablist DJ Logic are the Yohimbe Brothers.
Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and turntablist DJ Logic aren't brothers in the blood sense, but they are men who've had a fraternal bond over the years. Both founding members of the Black Rock Coalition, New Yorkers Reid, 49, and Logic, 35, came together at the top of the decade to form the Yohimbe Brothers, a funk/rock/electronica fusion band that stemmed from their years of collaboing and jamming together.

"It's just an idea of us wanting to get together and creating a whole project—you know, DJ and guitar," DJ Logic (real name: Jason Kibler) says on the phone from Manhattan. "It's an idea we've been talking about, you know. It's just like, when the opportunity came around, when our schedules were available for us to get together and lay down tracks and stuff, we just started doing that and things just kinda came together naturally."

Their debut album Front End Lifter came out in 2002 and boasted cameos from Prince Paul, Slick Rick and Reid's former Living Colour bandmates Corey Glover, Doug Wimbish and Will Calhoun. In this very publication, a brilliant, remarkable and extremely well–endowed music critic (me) said Reid and Logic "come up with music to stimulate everyone's inner Sir Psycho Sexy." Considering that the boys named themselves after a sexual–enhancement root, the sensuous (and sensual) overtones they ignite from their deliciously, deliriously noisy compositions are intentional.
"Yohimbe is from Africa, originally," says Logic. "It's actually a potent type of aphrodisiac. So, we looked at our beats as aphrodisiac beats, you know—very potent and good for the soul."

In 2004, they followed up Lifter with The Tao of Yo, which included guest shots from more lesser–known artists, like poet Latasha Nevada Diggs and rapper (and Bobby's son) Taylor McFerrin. While the Yohimbe Brothers are an outfit that's experimental to its core, Logic insists that he and Reid are also musically giving props to the inventive–yet–funky forefathers that came before them. He says, "We wanted to do a little bit, kind of like a P–Funk/George Clinton vibe, you know. How they came out with 'Atomic Dog' and the beats, the sounds, the colors. You know, we wanted to do our version of something different, as well as honor those guys—George Clinton and those Parliament cats. So, we just wanted to have something for the 2000 era."

For their shows, Reid and Logic (who will spin before and after the Yohimbe Brothers set) have a backing band that includes vocalist/indie R&B singer Maya Azucena and keyboardist/longtime Yohimbe contributor Leon Gruenbaum, who also performs on a contraption he calls a "sanchillian tiptip cheeepeeee." "He invented like a little computer–key instrument, which is awesome," explains Logic. "And he just triggers the sounds and stuff like that."

Logic insists that while he and Reid may be known for other projects (for Reid, his years shredding for Living Colour; for Logic, the work he's done with such artists as Medeski Martin & Wood, John Popper and Bob Weir's Ratdog), expect them to be deep in the Yohimbe groove during their shows. So none of you drunk bastards scream out any goddamn requests for anything from the Vivid album, please!

"Everyone knows Vernon from 'Cult of Personality,'" says Logic, "but we stick to the Yohimbe Brothers stuff, and we might do some other covers. But other than that, we'll stick to the record and stuff like that. And Vernon will also have his solo, where he'll rock out. Everybody plays as a cohesive unit, you know. "

Logic says another Yohimbe Brothers record is in the planning stages, which will continue in the Tao vein of featuring more fresh–faced performers. They also have a concert DVD currently out called Freedom Now. Released earlier this year, it features the Brothers performing at the Banlieues Bleues jazz festival in Paris in 2005. But right now, the boys are concentrating on turning out live–and–erect, er, direct, shows for stateside audiences.
Says Logic, "[We're] Just two potent brothers bringing some funk and good music to the soul."

Sat., Aug 2. 9pm. $12–$15. North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St. 215.684.0808. www.norrthstarbar.com

PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER , Pick of the Week
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2008/07/31/yohimbe-brothers
Yohimbe Brothers
Sat., Aug. 2, 9 p.m., $12, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.
by Shaun Brady

With Living Colour, Vernon Reid brought the funk to hard rock; in the Yohimbe Brothers, he reverses the ratio, infusing a heavy-metal edge into a 21st-century fusion unit. Formed in partnership with DJ Logic, the group approximates a cohesive meld of the varied sounds that might be heard on a Brooklyn block on any given summer day: R&B and rock blasting out of opposing apartment windows; rap and Latin music blaring from passing cars; turntablism and experimental electronics burbling up from basement laboratories. Through it all, Reid insinuates his rubber-spider guitar lines, the bastard child of Eddie Hazel and Ornette Coleman holding court from the harmolodic mother ship. The duo is supplemented by a vocalist and MC, and a keys, bass and drums rhythm section, but while they provide the groove, it's Reid and Logic who launch the thing spaceward.
Sat., Aug. 2, 9 p.m., $12, North Star Bar, 2639 Poplar St., 215-787-0488, northstarbar.com.


http://criticalmass.blogs.citypaper.net/blogs/mu/2008/07/28/the-showdown-smokey-this-is-not-nam-this-is-bowling-there-are-rules/
Saturday: Vernon Reid, founder of day-glo wet-suited Living Colour, teams up with DJ Logic and, with their powers combined, they outcome is the Yohimbe Brothers. The combo is the best of their respective worlds. It's their first visit to Philly in four years so give them the welcome they deserve. At the North Star Bar, doors at 9 p.m., tickets are $12.

PHILLY.COM
http://www.philly.com/philly/calendar/Vernon_Reid.html
Yohimbe Brothers
The Yohimbe Brothers is an electronica world music mash-up group, with elements of Salsa, Brazilian, American disco, R&B and black rock surrounded by turntable manipulations, samples and loops. The group features Vernon Reid (guitar & laptop), DJ Logic (turntables & samples) and others.
What: Electronica; Funk; Hip-hop; Jazz; Latin, Salsa; Live Music; Rock; World
When: Saturday, August 2 . 9 pm .
Tickets: $12-$15


TIME OUT NEW YORK
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/events/rock-pop-soul/129451/yohimbe-brothers
Yohimbe Brothers
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker St (at Thompson St)
Greenwich Village  | Map
212-796-0741
Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, V to W 4th St  | Directions
Prices

Tickets: $15
Description
As the Yohimbe Brothers, DJ Logic and Living Colour's Vernon Reid pump out a claustrophobic funk fusion. Joining the duo tonight are vocal improviser Taylor McFerrin and pianist Lafayette Gilchrist.

Yohimbe Brothers :

Vernon Reid - guitar - laptop ( Living Colour - Masque )
DJ Logic - turntables - samples ( Project Logic - John Popper Group - Marcus Miller )
Maya Azucena - vocals
Gaston - MC ( US3 )
Leon Gruenbaum - keys - laptop ( Masque )
Jared Michael Nickerson - electric bass ( Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber - Project Logic - Freddy Johnston )
Don McKenzie - drums ( Masque - Polyrhythm Addicts )

Description:
The Yohimbe Brothers are an electronica world music mash-up group, with elements of salsa, brazilian, american disco, r&b and black rock surrounded by turntable manipulations, samples and loops. The perfect example as to the next phase of North American 23rd-century pop music.

Saturday, August 2nd
North Star Bar.
2639 Poplar St Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19130
(215) 684-0808
http://www.northstarbar.com/ ...

$12 Advance
$15 Day of Show

Doors open @ 9pm, DJ Logic starts spinning @ 10pm then Yohimbe Brothers!

Tickets can be purchased @ Ticketweb.com
TicketWeb.com

Special Thanks to :
Andrew Miller
Heyday Entertainment

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29200

by Mark F. Turner
Yohimbe Brothers
Yohimbe Brothers featuring Vernon Reid and DJ Logic
La Huit
2007

This live concert captures footage of the Yohimbe Brothers: guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Colour, Free Form Funky Freqs) and DJ Logic (Zen of Logic, Ropeadope, 2006) and their multiform collage of hard rock, Latin, funk, jazz, and hip hop turnablism. Add some artistic post production visuals by French documentary filmmaker Jerome de Missolz and you get a DVD that's a sensory trip for the eye and ear.

The YB's band for this occasion also features Jared Nickerson on bass, Deantoni Parks on drums, Leon Gruenbaum ..boards, and vocalist/sound poet, Latasha Diggs. Recorded in Paris at the Banlieues Bleues music festival in 2005, the document includes tunes from their releases Front End Lifter (Ropeadope, 2002) and The Tao of Yo (Thirsty Ear, 2004).

Experimental sounds come to life visually in vibrant splashes of color and shifting patterns and rhythms. A variety of shapes, geometric and freely drawn, gyrate and dance with the changing beats, the musicians at times superimposed in a kaleidoscope of art. This mix of psychedelic onslaught and normal static camera work matches perfectly with music and sounds that are always in flux—junglism beats, synthesizers, scratches, sampled sounds built and deconstructed in real time.

But the film is also about the band—a tight-knit group that works through the changes. Diggs engages the audience with speaking voice (sometimes electronically processed) and sultry vocals, at times lovely, at others chaotic. At one point Reid's response to the audience's "Yee-Haw" leads the band directly into a Country Western-funk piece complete with Logic's sampled "Do Si Dos" and Reid's torched guitar playing.

The bass and drum pulsate the hypnotic groove so hard on the final track that the band seems almost oblivious to the audience. Did the crowd feel or misunderstand the vibe? The Jimi Hendrix tune "Are You Experienced?" comes to mind in the way the film successfully brings the Yohimbe Brothers' music to life visually.

Personnel: Vernon Reid: guitar; DJ Logic: turntablism; Jared Nickerson: bass; Deantoni Parks: drums; Leon Gruenbaum: keyboards; Latasha Diggs: voice.

Production Notes: 52 minutes; Surround Sound 5.1; Recorded 2005 at Banlieues Bleues. Extras none.