Calgary`s eight-piece soul-funk outfit Freak Motif bring it all back home for sophomore album
(WorldNews Music)

Calgary funk band Freak Motif. Photo by Chris Tait. An unruly march down 17th Avenue seems as auspicious a start as any for a Calgary soul-funk collective. It was 2009 and this celebratory procession became the climax of an impromptu, off-the-cuff session between a group of like-minded musicians who had been recruited through a Craigslist ad looking for fellow funk and afrobeat enthusiasts. Ten years later, many of those musicians remain part of Freak Motif. “The first jam session was a bunch of strangers who ended up going...