To celebrate our birthdays, a group of us went to see the Ray Mann Three (who recently supported Al Green here in Oz) and I was overwhelmed not just by their beautiful music but their joyful vibe and happy energy that was infectious.

Singer, Ray Mann creates his own animations, visuals and poster art. At the gig he described his motivation as wanting to get what was in his head when he sang out in front of the audience too. I love it when people embrace all of their creativity and use it as expression.

The simple but striking illustrated visuals added another hypnotic dimension to the sound, it was the first time he’d set up a gig with projections and in my opnion, the experiment worked.

Prior to the gig, we’d heard about them but being typical “digital natives”, we googled them too and uncovered some of their own music vids they had created for $50 – including the one below with dancer Etoile Marley ( a fan they met at one of their gigs while she was bouncing about on a stool!).

If you like funky soul with a twist then these are the guys for you…..

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