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Artist
Wassabi Collective
12+ albums
reggaeacid jazzelectronicrockfemale vocalists
about
With Wassabi Collective, what you see is what you get — and what you get is freakin’ cool. They are sensual and sexy, intrepid and intriguing. This Canadian five-piece are clear about who they are. They are progressive — they can bounce on a reggae groove or launch into a pulsating, tribal soul shakedown. They can switch with ease between hip hop punches and organic electro textures, ribbons of soul and trance winding throughout. They can rock and jam and funk it out, they can do it slow and sweet, or fast and furious, and they can do it all night. Wassabi Collective — Melissa Meretsky on percussion and vocals; Brent “Gisto” Hongisto on guitar and vocals; Jimmy Lewis on drums and vocals; keyboardist Rahj Levinson and bassist Scott Milne — has mastered the art of banging out severely danceable tunes that rarely are carbon copies of each other. Head-bopping hooks and tasty pockets of funk can swerve unexpectedly, easily veering off into exploratory jams, fueled by the captivating vocals of Meretsky, the band’s soul-soothing siren. Wassabi Collective’s sound can be tough to hammer down. Under a beat-driven, psychedelic-hued umbrella listeners will be put under a tranquil spell of funk, roots reggae and dub, rock, disco, drum ‘n’ bass, trance, and hip hop, with tinges of African and Latin sensibilities and hypnotizing tribal beats peppered throughout. Meretsky, who shares vocal duties with the raw and real reggae rudeboy Gisto, has a young, boundless energy and powerful and
