Listen to the tracks & buy the cd's on their official website :
www.seveneleven.nl

Report of their Live in Coutances (France) >>>

7/11 interview >>>

Review of 7/11 new album Hot'n'Funky (2003) >>>

Now comes the third version of this album subsequent to the remastering of “The new come out” (back with its original red sleeve and enriched with a few live tracks) and the hotty hot live “Get’m’down” issued quite a long time ago. (2003)

Review of Dodge's new release "Starbass invasion" (2003) >>>

Did you ever put a disk on your platin and stay immediately astonished (from the first to the last note…) how much you have been thrilled and stayed out of voice in front of the big talent you've just discovered ? ;o)
Only a few disks made me feel like this…except the historical Funk tunes which became classics for all the funkateers over the world (The last ones I need to mentioned are the Rick James' Live Long Beach in 81, and of course…Bootsy's Rubber Band Live in Louisville in 78 !!!)…

Nostalgy when you're in the air…but SEVEN ELEVEN is part of the renewal we were all waiting for…And with groups having this quality, the Funk still have beautiful days to live… ;o)
Their career started in 1987 : then they were only 4 (Dodge-Bass, Dice/Kaytee-Guitar, E-Keyboards et Eric J-Percussion) and more hip-hop influenced… but they knew how to evolve along the years by including new members (the funky drummer-Captain Hurk, the rapper-Are Mc or the so talented horns session…) who all contributed to built the current identity of the group : a tasty mix between Funk, Jazz and Hip Hop !

Their talent, inspiration and love of Funk won't let you any doubt when you listen to one of their 2 last CDs available on their gorgeous site www.seveneleven.nl (I would like to insist here : it's one of the nicest I ever visited…): www.seveneleven.nl .

Let's start by the "oldest" : the "Come Out", green jacket (not red) as it's a remastered (2000) and enriched release (with the help of Menace, the producer and guitar player of P-Funk from New York) of the CD edited in 1996.
The new songs (from the first version) are "Funkin' the City' and "We ain't here to Funk" as well as a more efficient and muscled version of "Unfunky B.I.T.C.H." (I don't know exactly who inspired the lyrics of this song with rather shocking title… but I admit that some people we meet would sometimes deserve that we dedicate this song to them… ;o)

Funkin'! Funk! Funky! I promise you that each of this word (that we all worship here…) are front and used for a good reason 'cause the Groove vibe in each beat is the key element of the music of this band… Note that what I particularly enjoyed on this studio album is the fabulous voice of
U-Gene (as on the bomb "Good Life", one of my favorite), a very skilled singer, who has since then built up his own band…

You may consider (perhaps) I review to fast on this first opus… as it's surely one of the best for the last years… but it's only the entrance and you need to keep some space for the main dish ;o)))

Their Live "Get'm'Down" is to BUY WITH NO DELAY !!! It's P-Funk as we didn't listened to for a long time (Besides, the participation of Gary "Mudbone" Cooper from the Bootsy's Rubber Band is not a coincidence and a way of recognizing their talent…)
As I said before, I rarely feel so astonished on the first listening ;-)) And for repeating a Malka family's expression (one of the best French Funk Band in the 90's in France), there're all the necessary ingredients inside for having the Funk pot boiling : a kicking drummer always well placed, great guitar riffs, a deep, heavy and groovy bass, excellent keyboard solos, a killing horns section, singers and rappers always on the right tone to make it juicy… It's delicious !!! ;o)))

I felt so much emotions and good vibes while listening to it that I thought useless to detail you all the different dishes (and their subtlety)… It gave me so much energy to think that people still could produce such Funk in 2002!!! That I cannot imagine you won't share this experience…;o)) (by the way, get psychologically ready for "Dirty Frog" or "Scientific Failure" as you risk the "happiness blackout"... ;o))

Consequently, It seems obvious that Seven Eleven would show its full range on stage…and then impossible, in such conditions, not to do EVERYTHING for meeting the group in order to confirm that opinion… That's what decided us to make the trip from Paris (as a special Funky-People convey) to see them live on the 9th of May at the French Festival "Jazz sous les pommiers", in Coutances (North/West, near the sea), their unique concert date in France… ;o(

As you can check, we would accept any sacrifice!!! ;o))) But don't worried, the memories that will remain :
·>>> Of the interview they gave us (soon on line…Sorry Dodge to have disturb your dinner, hope the meal was good anyway ;o)))
>>> Of the following INCREDIBLE concert (let's see the Quazar's hot impressions which summarize well the opinion of the 4 lucky funky-people of the convey, the festival's organisers and for sure of all the privileged audience on that show ! ;o) >>>read&see
Nb : Quazar … you speak about Malka Family and we don't consult each other ! ;o)
·>>> Of the friendship moments we lived (before, during and after the show) with them which really personify what we usually call between fans, the Funky Attitude (humility, generosity, availability, brotherhoodness…)

Don't risk to fly away!!!!

So I'm calling all the Funkateers from France and everywhere else : Give an efficient support to the Funk by running on their web site : www.seveneleven.nl... (for those who would have already forgotten it ;o) and buy urgently their albums!!! So now I understand well what Wonder B (the father of our French N°1 magazine…FUNK U) wanted to say when he wrote on one of his article "It's the best Funk Band in Europe !!!"

Funkygirl Juin 2002