Rén with the Mane + Brandi and the Alexanders + Walk Talk

Ren with the Mane is the melodic musical mind of Renee Orshan and producer Brandon Bost. Most often noticed by her curly mane, Brooklyn based Orshan encompasses a rich diversity of city moods in her recorded music. Orshan’s music was recently featured in hit TV shows Partner Track and Love Island USA, and can also be heard spinning on New York’s 90.7fm WFUV radio station. REN translates her recorded songs into live sound with a 6 piece band featuring groovy synths, guitars, harmonies, and horns. 

Brandi and the Alexanders are a psychedelic soul-rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The dynamic rock ‘n’ soul quintet, initially started as a classic soul covers project,  is led by  compelling singer and songwriter Brandi Thompson, a Chicago native who has also been a backing vocalist for Aloe Blacc, Nick Waterhouse, Daptone label artists, and others.

As Brandi and the Alexanders found their own voice, inspired by 60’s Chicago blues, and ‘70s-era soul classics, the group segued from their cover-band beginnings and released a debut album of originals, 2018’s ‘How Do You Like It?’ on Red Parlor Records.

Buoyed by her bandmates, Thompson has further seized upon her own lyrical agency and candor. In the aftermath of 2020 Black Lives Matter marches, she wrote “Fire,” perhaps Brandi and the Alexanders’ most formidable song to date, and the spiritual catalyst for their 2022 'Reflection' EP. New York’s glittering lights and sophisticated grooves serve as Reflection’s beacon. The seven-track EP adroitly blurs genres: there are club gems (“(I Want To) Watch You Dance)”), funked-up, slow-burn soul (“Where You Belong”), and majestic gospel (“Amen”).

Walk Talk is Mayteana Morales and David Bailis. Morales and Bailis performed with the funk outfit, Pimps of Joytime, for a decade and have individually toured with Durand Jones & The Indications, Natalie Merchant, John Forte, Easy Star All-Stars, Chico Mann and Bajah & The Dry Eye Crew.

Together they have created a sound that  identifies as a culmination of time, genre, travel, rhythm, and dance; manifesting love variations and soul vibrations through original song craft  and electrifying live performance. Walk Talk offers a fresh and inspired take on Soul, High-Life, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, 90s R&B, Boogie Funk, and blissfully beyond. steadily unveil a creative canvas on which these passionate artists draw original soundscapes, rhythms, and sensualized harmonies, intoxicating elixirs that resonate deeply across a wide swath of demographics and genres.