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...Soulful Light of the Missionary Monk Messiah" touched down on Earth via the Dunster House dining hall Saturday night. As Daryl Norcott '94, leader of this "exploratory movement of funk," preached elegant couples like "Fee Fi Foe Funk/ let's get down and do this Junk," his 20-person band took its audience into the upper funkisphere...
...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...
Combining wit, charm, and what President Bill Clinton has termed "angelic funk," White House Director of Communications George Stephanopoulos spoke before a packed crowd at the Kennedy School on Saturday...