Nashville’s Aaron Winters takes his alter ego Space Capone seriously. If serious means packing dance floors with his Noveau disco sound complete with horns, falsetto vocals, and chugging rhythms. The band hits the uptown club with Brassft Funk opening.
Disco used to be a bad word for segments of the music loving population. But now the iconic dance music of the 1970s is experiencing a revival among a new generation of the same type of hipsters who once disdained it.
Witness the resurgent career of Nile Rogers, the mastermind behind Chic, and his role in taking dance music away from the machines with Daft Punk’s latest release, and putting it back into the hands of instrument-playing musicians.
Space Capone has been producing retro grooves for ten years in Tennessee. I am shocked I hadn’t heard of them before. Their eponymous album has been in steady rotation since I got it.
The sound of the band is not like modern funk with its preponderance of musical layers and in-your-face bass. Space Capone lets the grooves breathe. Cooing background vocals, percolating keyboards, and lyrics that are sometimes sung with tongue firmly implanted in cheek, are hallmarks of some of Winters’ musical heroes.
I have it on good authority that this band brings it live. The crowd in the photo above at the Austin City Limits Festival will attest to it. Check ‘em out.
