Kool Customer At Your Service

B. Bravo and Rojai are back as Kool Customer. The duo’s sophomore album At Your Service is ten modern funk heaters of pure pool party music. At Your Service delivers the cabana vibes of LA hotel parties—think the atrium at the High Line or rooftop at the downtown Ace Hotel—while pushing their funkster identity several steps beyond expectation. Opener “Endless Summer” sets the eternally funky tone that sustains through the mellow space grooves of “One Day At A Time.” Within those bookends, Kool Customer serves up the customary two-steppers like “Fly Away” and “Learned My Lesson” that will earn spins from MoFunk functions in LA on up to Sweater Funk in San Francisco. The group infuses their sound with touches of boogie, g-funk, and club that celebrate the spectrum of modern funk regardless of region. B. Bravo’s vintage synth arsenal may root the album in a time-honored tradition of boogie funk, but 'At Your Service' is never lost in the post-disco past. “West Coast Livin’” and “Give It All Up” put inventive twists on g-funk that pull in hints of reggae and boom bap. Elsewhere, “Rising High” feels like a sleek combination of Faze-O's ethereal, drifting cosmic funk mixed with the earworm synths of UK street soul. The blend provides Rojai space to maneuver through rap and singing in a style that centers the song in the present. With At Your Service, B. Bravo and Rojai prove that being a Kool Customer is about the effortlessness in their exploratory techniques. Those fresh techniques include the recording process in which Bravo adapted to his legally blind partner who was recording from a home studio in SF. Bravo would control Rojai’ computer remotely, taking the controls on Pro Tools from LA. They kept this formula from the demos to the album versions.