KENTYAH FRASER

Kentyah Fraser is a DJ/producer, percussionist, aspiring writer, and burgeoning pop culture educator. As a one-time assistant and de facto mentee of Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) he learned the ropes of the indie music industry (both good and bad) from one of its most astute and consistent producers. Having managed Spooky's Synchronic Records Kentyah chose, until now, to remain behind the scenes, but is now pulling back the curtain to boldly amble forth into the public eye as a producer, conceptualist, and on stage DJ personality. His total commitment to intellectual stimulation through vibrant and “evolutionary-minded” pop culture takes brilliant form with his debut release from Motéma, Evolutionary Minded, a joint project with jazz/soul legend Brian Jackson which re-casts the Brian Jackson/Gil Scott-Heron Midnight Band catalog in a twenty-first century cultural light, featuring an A-list of jazz, hip-hop and soul artists. Kentyah takes his auteur cues from his mentor, read more...