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Seeed, Reggae Band
CATEGORY: MUSIC TAG: REGGAE / DANCEHALL
We are Pete Fox, Ear, Eased, Jerome, Reibold, Rudy, Tobi, Alfi, Luke, Based & Delgado. Founded in `98 and gigging from early `99, Seeed might be aptly described as a product of multi-ethnic, multi-lingual Berlin and the city’s burgeoning, club-based dancehall scene that came of age at around the same time. Much of the initial attention the eleven-piece unit managed to grab was down to the hyper-energy whipped up by that terrible threesome splitting vocal duties between them – Pierre Baigorry (aka Enuff, half-french), Frank Delle´(aka Eased, half-ghanaian) and Demba Nabe´ (aka Ear, half-guinean). But – truth be told! – it wasn’t smooth sailing from the word “go”. Dabbling with a lot of competing influences and absorbing a range of cross-fertilizing musical backgrounds from hiphop to plain ol’ stinkin’ rock, Seeed – at least in their very first incarnation – was supposed to be, believe it or not, a gumbo-styled street-carnival marching-band, big truck in tow manned with a sound-engineer mixing and dubbing an assortment of drums, bass, guitars and horns live; sort of a New Orleans-second-line-with-a-caribbean-boom-bap-in-the-trunk type of experience. Sounds kinda quaint in the 2K6, granted. But that concept was buried as quick as it was devised. “In the end reggae turned out to be the lowest common denominator”, offers Pierre Baigorry by way of explanation. “So you could say we established ourselves as a reggae band... well, kinda. After a while dancehall just asserted itself.
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