April 9: Luck One Album Release Party @ Crown Room | Keak Da Sneak, Ben Darwish’s Commotion
From our friends at Lifeisaparty:
True Theory Album Release Party
w/ Keak Da Sneak, Ben Darwish Afrobeat Project
Saturday, April 9
9:30 p.m. | $5 | 21+
Facebook event
Crown Room
205 NW Fourth Avenue
***First hour of FREE drinks at OPEN BAR with LifeisaParty information***
A classically trained musician since childhood and son of an on-again, off-again jazz musician, Luck-One (Hanif Collins) has always been dynamic in his approach to the music that would grow to be his life's calling. Nearly ten years ago, as Luck was on the verge of releasing his debut LP Live From the Underground with his now defunct group, Seventh Science, he was arrested on robbery and gun charges. After being tried as an adult under Oregon's mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines, the 17-year-old would tragically wind up serving over half a decade behind penitentiary bars.
While serving time, Collins voiced his critique of the prison system through the orchestration of food strikes, and organized prisoners previously divided along racial and political lines, around common causes. By the time of his release he had managed to teach himself a second language, compose thousands of songs, and study marketing in a self-motivated effort to emerge from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution a savvy businessman.
Since his confinement, Luck-One has emerged triumphantly with a vision to use his music as a cross-cultural medium for change. In February 2009, less than a year after his release, Luck-One collaborated with up and coming production wiz Dekk to release the not-for-profit EP Beautiful Music, which was acclaimed by critics everywhere, and raised funds to fight poverty in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation of Haiti. Beautiful Music was regarded as one the Top Ten EPs of the year by the widely popular blog, Kevinnottingham.com, named Editor's picks three months in a row by CDBaby, and proclaimed Breakout Hip-Hop album of the year in Willamette Week's 2009 year in review.
Keak Da Sneak is one of the most unique and respected hip-hop artists to ever come from the West Coast. A pioneer of the Bay Area sound, Keak burst onto the scene with groundbreaking work in the group 3X Krazy and would go on to much success as a solo artist. After appearing on MTV's popular show, ¬Å“My Super Sweet 16¬Â and being featured on E-40's monster hit ¬Å“Tell Me When To Go,¬Â Keak released the studio album Deified, which showcased his trademark raspy baritone and off balanced flow. Deified, and Keak's subsequent mixtapes with track leaks from his coming studios albums, Keak continues to push the classic bass focused sound that hyphy fans have come to know and love.
Portland's COMMOTION is a live experience that you do not want to miss! Drawing from funk, hip hop, and afrobeat rhythms, they bring a non-stop dance party from start to finish. Having presented such high concept shows as Live Band vs. Ohmega Watts (band vs. DJ) and an Afrobeat Tribute to Michael Jackson, the band is well versed in dance music and draws from these styles and other rhythms from around the globe.
Led by keyboardist, Ben Darwish, COMMOTION features core members Dan Duval on guitars, Sam Howard on bass, Russ Kleiner on drums, and a rotating cast of impressive horn players, singers, and percussionists. Members of COMMOTION have also performed with artists such as Ohmega Watts, Curtis Salgado, Blue Cranes, Reggie Watts, March Fourth Marching Band and tons more!
