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Pronounce it “Liquid Sunshine”
The Liqdzunshine story begins back in 1997 or so. A mutual friend, named Josh, introduced founder, keyboardist, and singer Kahlid Woods to MC Carlos Young, a veteran of the Long Beach DJ and hip-hop scene.
“The way Josh told me about him was, ‘He ain’t nothing,’” Kahlid reveals. “I said, ‘What’s up with Carlos?’ because he was on stage singing and rapping, and he said, ‘Nothin.’ I said, ‘He looks like he’s good to me.’ He discouraged me, dude, and that made me want to work with (Carlos) more, actually.”
The two instantly clicked and began working together making beats and rhymes for about three years before adding anyone else to the ensemble. The two wrote the entirety of the band’s first CD, the self-titled Liqdzunshine, independently released in 2002. Carlos’s friend Dave “P-45” Sussman joined initially as a backup vocalist and now serves as the band’s drummer. Dave Staples (bass) answered an online want ad in 2002; Denean Dyson met the band in 2003 through a friend who worked with her at the Cal State Fullerton library. All the pieces fell in place to begin performing songs from Liqdzunshine live.
“That was an experiment,” Kahlid says of the preternatural first recording. “We tried to write more than that, actually, but that’s all we got to. We just wanted to see if we could, and it ended up being this process of trying to find a sound and a style. Then that grew. When Dave got in, the sound and style grew. We’re starting to do acoustic stuff now. It’s mutating.”
It seems to be mutating in epic proportions: two years ago the band scrapped, or at least shelved, an entire album’s worth of new material, electing instead to record the songs that would become their 2005 debut as a collective, Audiopleasure, recorded with Evan Frankfort of Would Work Entertainment.
The self-released disc emanates a significantly harder edge than their earlier work—including the shelved Refus the Chocolate Wonderman. Add to that one pissed off MC, and you’ve got tracks like “America’s Bitch:” “Sick of fiending for things that only go bling/America’s bitch, slut, whore, tramp and then I guess I’m a nigga.” Or “Turn the Page” where he calls out other MCs to “capture a new state of grace.”
The complexities of Audiopleasure abound: social and spiritual commentary blend with each musical totem—funk, rock, soul and hip hop—to create an album you can blindly listen to for its hypnotic grooves, or fully invest your self in.
The band’s writing style is so organic that most songs come to fruition in rehearsal through sound checks and just messing around. A perfect amalgamation of rock, funk, soul and hip-hop has emerged, but they’re not done tinkering with their sound.
Having recently finished another period of recording at Would Work, Liqdzunshine is currently in the process of mixing the songs that will appear on their upcoming third album, Beautiful Things, scheduled for release in early 2008. Beautiful Things features a more focused musical and lyrical sensibility.
The Liqdzunshine story begins back in 1997 or so. A mutual friend, named Josh, introduced founder, keyboardist, and singer Kahlid Woods to MC Carlos Young, a veteran of the Long Beach DJ and hip-hop scene.
“The way Josh told me about him was, ‘He ain’t nothing,’” Kahlid reveals. “I said, ‘What’s up with Carlos?’ because he was on stage singing and rapping, and he said, ‘Nothin.’ I said, ‘He looks like he’s good to me.’ He discouraged me, dude, and that made me want to work with (Carlos) more, actually.”
The two instantly clicked and began working together making beats and rhymes for about three years before adding anyone else to the ensemble. The two wrote the entirety of the band’s first CD, the self-titled Liqdzunshine, independently released in 2002. Carlos’s friend Dave “P-45” Sussman joined initially as a backup vocalist and now serves as the band’s drummer. Dave Staples (bass) answered an online want ad in 2002; Denean Dyson met the band in 2003 through a friend who worked with her at the Cal State Fullerton library. All the pieces fell in place to begin performing songs from Liqdzunshine live.
“That was an experiment,” Kahlid says of the preternatural first recording. “We tried to write more than that, actually, but that’s all we got to. We just wanted to see if we could, and it ended up being this process of trying to find a sound and a style. Then that grew. When Dave got in, the sound and style grew. We’re starting to do acoustic stuff now. It’s mutating.”
It seems to be mutating in epic proportions: two years ago the band scrapped, or at least shelved, an entire album’s worth of new material, electing instead to record the songs that would become their 2005 debut as a collective, Audiopleasure, recorded with Evan Frankfort of Would Work Entertainment.
The self-released disc emanates a significantly harder edge than their earlier work—including the shelved Refus the Chocolate Wonderman. Add to that one pissed off MC, and you’ve got tracks like “America’s Bitch:” “Sick of fiending for things that only go bling/America’s bitch, slut, whore, tramp and then I guess I’m a nigga.” Or “Turn the Page” where he calls out other MCs to “capture a new state of grace.”
The complexities of Audiopleasure abound: social and spiritual commentary blend with each musical totem—funk, rock, soul and hip hop—to create an album you can blindly listen to for its hypnotic grooves, or fully invest your self in.
The band’s writing style is so organic that most songs come to fruition in rehearsal through sound checks and just messing around. A perfect amalgamation of rock, funk, soul and hip-hop has emerged, but they’re not done tinkering with their sound.
Having recently finished another period of recording at Would Work, Liqdzunshine is currently in the process of mixing the songs that will appear on their upcoming third album, Beautiful Things, scheduled for release in early 2008. Beautiful Things features a more focused musical and lyrical sensibility.
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