Word: funke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looked like an impromptu high school backyard party. At 9:30, the doors to the Dunster dining hall opened, and most audience members got their hands marked with the letter "F". An anonymous sources close to the Missionary Monk Messiah revealed to this reviewer that the "F" stood for "Funk...
Combining James Brown dance moves with a classic late 70s aesthetic, Norcott was quite the Funk Monk. He has a commanding stage presence, cool sunglasses, and can throw a frisbee the length of the Dunster dining hall with the flick of a wrist. Norcott spoke lines of deep meaning; such rhymes as "I'm just a man with soulful intentions, I've crossed the bridge to unmistaken conventions" deserve painstaking exegesis to unlock their message for a contemporary audience...
...times it seemed as if the sound and theatricals of Parliament-Funkadelic were being recreated down to the last detail. Songs such as "How Much Soul" and "Hands to the Heavens/Feet to the Floor" were interspersed with skits including the heated battle of Funk and Anti-Funk, "The Cataclysmic Duel Between the Messiah Monk and Funkistopholes...
...sound was standard funk, with grinding grooves punctuated by horn blasts and organ riffs and Norcott in call-and-response with his backup singers. But standard funk, by its very funkiness, makes for a booty-shaking jam. Even Funkistopholes, played by Seth Mnookin, the vanquished evil anti-funk, was witnessed in the audience grooving to the tunes of his nemesis...
...Missionary Monk" almost brought the audience to tears with a heartfelt sermon backed by a string trio; the audience could only express its rapture with exclamations of "Cello! Cello!" Then it was funk, funk, funk, and more funk, with the full power of the band, horns, and "Celestial Chorus" cruising alongside the "Monk...