WATER SEED: Early for the Future

Water Seed

Early for the Future

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The Rebirth of traditional Funk and Soul. This live raw and uncut CD is a true testament to what this emerging band has to offer. They have been compared to Arrested Development by Rolling Out Magazine and called the ones to watch by Creative Loafing.

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Water Seed(knowledge and growth): The rebirth of the classic soul funk band.

Water Seed was only months away from completing their second CD when tragedy struck. Hurricane Katrina displaced all the members of this young band and totally devastated all property, lifestyle and livelihood that Water Seed spent years building. The band found a home in Atlanta Georgia and found a way to move forward. Like all those affected, Water Seed got back to the business of making and expressing themselves through their music.

There is a smoldering fire in Atlanta and its name is Water Seed. Water Seed is a band dedicated to recreating the true American soul/funk band. In the tradition of Earth, Wind and Fire, Commodores, Rufus and Chaka, and Maze, Water Seed has the marketability to open the doors to a sound that everyone will soon be after.



In August 2006 Water Seed let loose with their first EP, Two Words. Independently released, the seven track EP has generated a ground swelling buzz to the tune of a 6,500 units sold in the first 6 months. This co-ed ensemble possesses a brotherly and sisterly love that vibrates through each and every one of their songs. They have been referred to as a band that represents harmony in a way that most bands try to achieve", and the band to keep an eye on". Water Seed has a live show like no other. You can take the musician out of New Orleans, but you can't take New Orleans out of the musician. It is no wonder this band is always in high demand. There has never been a show performed by Water Seed without the band breaking into those New Orleans street beats that we all love. Crowds can't get enough of Water Seed's live energy.



This good looking young band is spearheading the new generation of the rebirth of the classic funk soul band by presenting their third live album “Early For The Future” . “Early For The Future” creates a fusion of funk and soul that goes beyond novel trends and that has everything to do with their cultural upbringing. The band offers a high dose of rhythms, sensuality and pleasure on each of their tracks.

Water Seed is anything but a typical funk, Jazz soul act. The 8 songs that make up their live album “Early For The Future“ introduces Water Seed as a group who have fused their musical origins of drums, flute, keys, guitar, bass, percussion and horns to that of a mix with Louisiana music influences. Resulting in a concoction of jazz, funk, blues, neo soul rhythms that any audience can feel by the first note.



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  • A Tour De' Force
    author: Danny Swiftson

    I'm going to be honest with you...I don't particular care for "Urban Music." I'm not saying that this cd should be classified as such, but let us all be quite frank, when we see the cover of this cd and begin to embrace our perceptions of people who appear to be "urban" in nature, then we logically take the next step and assume that that is exactly what we are about to hear. I stuck this cd in my cd player at the behest of my wife, whose advice or requests I normally pay very little attention to. This particular instance though, much like our 3rd anniversary, was surprisingly and unexpectedly rewarding. As I stuck this cd in, instead of being greeted with "thumping hip hop beats," profane utterances, and inappropriate if not enticing sexual references (the things I have become accustomed to hearing when listening to compositions by artists of shall we say, a darker hue)...I was instead delightfully immersed in flute solos...melodic intervals remniscint of early Kool & the gang, and lyrics that evoke the power of Al B sure yet the spirit of early Ready for the World. All in all, this cd defies most of my preconceptions of about urban artists. If the world were treated to more ensembles such as The Water Seed, well quite frankly, I may have to reassess my opinions about urban music and those who compose it.

  • simply untrue
    author: Jennifer Amy Heatherstone

    Mr. Gilmer, you have hit the nail on the head. I am MORE THAN CONFIDENT that the words of Mr. Kettloe are 100% FABRICATIONS. Let me share something with you about the real Jared Kettloe... A man who cheated his way through the music program at Broward Community College in Tennessee, a man who has never held a job for any stitch of time longer than it took for him to embezzel resources, insult customers, and betray what little trust the few who would dared grant him...a man who toured the southeast playing in a Young MC cover band using a stolen lute...a man who undoubtedly has no legitimate claim to any composition by anyone, as his entire musical repertoire consists of little more than stolen riffs and jethro tull samples run through a processor...and lastly and most shamefully, a man who I can only describe as the best thing that ever happened to me. Honestly, I listen to this cd, and I can only think of Jared. It reminds me of the time we spent together on his boat, before and after it capsized in the filthy cess pool streets that New Orleans was raped into becoming by the hand of an angry tide. THe music takes me to a place where I was baptised by a selfish love that held me accountable for my own inaccountability, and it was at this place, in Kettloe's arms, where I understood that every cruel deed that happens to a woman by the brow of a man, is as much a blessing as it is a punishment. Water Seed's music provides a fitting soundtrack to the series of poorly reviwed stage plays that is life. It creeps upon you like a wanton intruder, seeking his worth in your hue, and yet leaves you with far more dignity than you possessed before being tempted or touched. I take my hat off to this band, and this music...but in no way should that be interpreted as an endorsement or acknowlegdment of Kettloe's claims. He is a the type of person who takes great pride in being nothing more than a 21st century minstrel...long after the black face paint has been washed away to expose an even darker person both in appearance, and in character. Bravo to Water Seed, and Shame on you Jared Kettloe, not just for what you have done to me, but what you have attempted to do to all of us as patrons of the arts.

  • What can I say...
    author: Dorian Gilmer

    Soulful, funky, evocative, energizing, lots of fun...all that! With the artistic sublimity of this band being self-evident, I just want to add that if there is one iota of truth to the statement by Mr. Kettloe about his lute riffs being jacked, you should hire the brother and let the people be the judge of lute vs. flute...fair enough.

  • Puzzling but brilliant!!
    author: Jared Kettloe

    Before I get into talking about the music on this cd, I would first like to talk about my own predicament. I am a musician from New Orleans. I was not displaced by Hurricane Katrina, but instead, I was moving to New Orleans when it struck. It was actually a fortunate conincidence because prior to living there, all of my possessions were on a house boat on the docks of South Carolina. I basically was trying to find a way to move my house boat to New Orleans, as due to the fact that I violated the 3 strikes law for water-born illegal trade practices, I was denied a sailing permit onto the Mississippi river. I rented a U-haul, attaching my boat to the back, vowing to drive as far as I could towards New Orleans, and then planning to wait until the cover of darkness to slink it's rotting anchor onto the soft coral bed of the Mississippi river. I would sail by night until I reached the New Orleans port. When the hurricane set in, my Uhaul was destroyed, and I climbed onto my house boat, hoping to ride the unwelcome filthy tide into the New Orleans peer. Unfortunately, the violent tide capsized my vessel, and like the socialist Obama, "redistributed my wealth and possessions" amidst the flooded streets of Louisiana. I lost close to everything I had for daring to have the audacity to attempt towards a hurricane,during a hurricane. Everything I had was destroyed or displaced...outside of one possession. A small sony walkman, and my Water Seed cd. I listened to it...I wept....I laughed aloud, I cursed angrily at an angry moon...I ran the cornucopia of emotions to the soundtrack that this band provided, and honestly...I was a better man for it. I was a better man until one day....almost a year to the date where my boat had capsized beneath an angry tide in the gay of night....I attempted to contact Water Seed to offer my services in their band. I am an accomplished lute player, and I felt that the combination of my lute and the flautist's flute would be an unstopppable artistic tour de force. Sadly, the powers that be in Water Seed did not share in my vision. Further, I had submitted several cds of lute solos I had written for many of their pieces. At the time, I simply received a letter, saying that they had listened, but had no place in their music for my work. I, a gentleman and a scholar, took their words at face value. Then one day I saw Water Seed was doing a show in town. I attended reluctantly with some local strumpet whose name escapes me, and I was horrified to hear that every solo their flutist played was plaguerized from the lute solos I had sent in months ago. It is not my intent to damage this bands' reputation. I do believe that replacing a lute solo with a flute solo is just about one of the most hurtful and pointless things you can do as a musician; particularly because of the inescapable cadence of a lute compared to the inferior tone of a flute. In spite of this sordid and painful history, I still enjoy this cd to this very day. I suppose I should.... What man wouldn't enjoy listening to his own work...blasphemized by a dissonant instrument floating on a melodic sea of pernicious theivery. I would like to encourage others to purchase this cd in spite of my quarrel with the band's sense of integrity. It is a somewhat refreshing vibe in a world of pain and humiliation.

  • I am in awe
    author: Davari Speaks

    This review is one that I submit with great enthusiasm yet great regret as well. You see, first let me say that I love this cd. The music takes me to a place where I do not belong yet have always longed to be...where-in lies the dilemma. I listened to this cd for the first time as I was making love to my a woman I had no business making love to. It occured at a time in my life when I was going places I had no right to go, with people I had no right to be with, doing things I had no right to do. It is unfortunate that such a powerful artistic album has to be associated with the single most shameful chapter of the sordid book that is my life. I wish there was some way I could undo it...if I could simply invoke the spirit of Tyrone Davis and "Turn Back the hands of Time" as it were, perhaps I would not have placed this cd in the player as I in one night no less committed the most foul, disrespectful, and egregious display of wanton neglectful iniquity that transpired from the brow of what many considered to be a respectable individual who contributed far more to society than he forcibly removed under conver of night. It is for this reason that I both highly recommend this cd, but I cannot impress upon you how important it is to not associate this band's music with shameful deeds...as I have done. I mean I have literally run out of options when it comes to this cd...

  • author: Patrick Willison

    The music is just fun. Very enjoyable.

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