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BASS PLAYER Magazine

BP Recommends - February Issue, 2003

FREEKBASS Body Over Mind [Starlets; www.freekbass.com]

If you haven't heard of Freekbass, you will. Protege to bandleader and funk-bass pioneer Bootsy Collins, fellow Cincinnati native Chris "Freekbass" Sherman and his band have inherited the Buckeye State's funk flag, while winning over many funk-favoring ears across the Midwest. Freekbass produced Body Over Mind, released late last year as a Japanese import, with Bootsy and keyboardist Beta-17, and every one of its 14 slick tracks embodies the state of the art of on-the-one, sci-fi funk. Taking a page from the Bootsy cookbook, Freek lets medium-tempo grooves simmer, spicing the mix with delicious hooks, grab-ya guitar parts, and trippy sci-fi synth sounds that weave in and out of the funk. Like his mentor, Freekbass switches between understated fingerstyle grooves and mind-bending, effect-saturated solos. Don't expect a Funkenstein clone, though; while Bootsy's direction and influence is clear, Freekbass and his band have a colorful, Freek-unique sound that's undeniably their own delicious thang.