Event

Grood / BiFunkal

Grood is the original purveyor of Chicago strangefunk. This is a hefty and cryptic title, and Grood strongly suggests you just listen to the music, but here are some words to describe the music anyways: dark dance rock, amoeba love songs, warm-up fast jam, bread and butter. Its creative, fresh, and vigorous, just like soap. The two main creators: Charlie Otto and Kasey foster, live together, eat together, and constantly work together to make art. Some of that art turns into Grood songs, some into Kasey's theater career or Charlie's other 15 bands, and the leftover is fart jokes. Grood can do three things very well: one, they are always making new music and posting it to their sound cloud page, always free. Two, they work those songs into a 5 piece live band frenzy that sounds like a hot knife. Three, once a year they make the ACTual show, a living, jumping, colorful, theatrical version of Grood songs on stage, usually in December and almost definitely at their home court venue, Martyrs.

Bifunkal is as much a concept as it is a medium for expressing ideas through the universal language of music. At the core of Bifunkal is the assumption that two people creating in harmony can deliver the sound of three or more musicians while bringing new sounds to the audience at every performance. Together we create an exciting blend of funk, rock, progressive jazz, trance, hip hop, and forms undefined.