The last interview I saw of Prince he was talking to Barbara Walters. He was sitting next to his young wife on a white couch. He was speaking very quietly, and said that they had news. He said that they had two personalities, and the new personality was a woman. His wife nodded, that indeed there was a woman inside of him. It wasn't alarming, the brotha wears thongs and lace n eye make up n shit, but I didn't know how that was going to play out. Prince is a musical genius. I'm saying that in the tone that Eddie Murphy used to say brothas would roll up on him and threaten to kick his ass for impersonating Stevie Wonder saying, "Stevie a musical gene yessss!" After the interview came out, i think it was like 1997, not much changed. He still made his own eclectic funk. But what i hadn't realized was that the woman inside of him was a walking, breathing entity. Her name is Jack Davey of J Davey.
http://www.myspace.com/jdavey
I was at the show on August 20, 2008, at S.O.B.'s in lower Manhattan, and let me tell you... she ripped it. The band was tight and the beats were massive. And i was given a feeling that i hadn't experienced since i saw Prince in 1984 at the Frank Erwin Special Event Center, Austin, Texas. You see, i was a ticket scalper when i was 14. That means i always had tickets, and often would use the phattest tix for myself. For prince i brought my lil girlfriend wearing a lace glove and Purple Rain shirt to the 8th row and she caught a rose that Prince had kissed and thrown out to the audience. I had a feeling at that moment that i was a part of something important musically, culturally, historically... Jack Davey gave me that feeling as well. She approaches music with the same spontaneous brink of explosion that Prince does. The vibe is one of urgency. It's the primal feeling of procreation for survival. It's a compulsion that involves fight or flight or impregnate... i felt neuro transmissions to my knees to move. My senses became more alert, like a panther's. She bad, yo!
J Davey are representative of the Black New Wave of a mix of Hip Hop, Afro Punk, Electronica, Psychedelic Groves, Dub, and Funk. It's party music as well as music of liberation. It's raw sex and emancipation. Cop her latest album, it's knocking. But be careful, it has fertility powers, so if you're not trying to conceive, be warned.
