Peace Bisquit

🙌🏽 Ultra Naté has been named the Alice and Franklin Cooley Composer in Residence ✨ by Baltimore Museum of Art🎙️❗
🎨 https://artbma.org/press-release/bma-names-ultra-nate-as-the-second-alice-and-franklin-cooley-composer-in-residence/
🎨 https://artbma.org/event/ultra-nates-deep-sugar-presents-transmutation-voyeur/

▪️A renowned Baltimore-born singer, songwriter, DJ, producer, and globally celebrated music icon, Ultra will draw on her expansive musical vocabulary—spanning house, soul, disco, electro-pop, R&B, hip-hop, and rock—to develop new work inspired by the BMA’s collection that reflects her legacy as both an innovator and connector across musical communities.

▪️Deep Sugar 🪩“Transmutation Voyeur” 8/28 Event : https://www.facebook.com/events/1317407437048303?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D

📷 Mike Ruiz

"When I recorded 'Walking in the Rain' at Compass Point, I wanted to bring a sense of cinematic drama to it. The original version by Flash and the Pan has a great rhythm, but we stripped it down to make it darker and more hypnotic. Working with Sly and Robbie gave it that heavy, mechanical reggae pulse. It’s not just a song about weather; it's about urban isolation and power."
Grace Jones, Smash Hits [June 1981]

Rest in Beats and Power Yancy🙏🏽🥁

Yancy Drew was Brooklyn Funk Essentials’ first drummer. He played on the band’s debut club date in early 1994 at AKA on West Houston Street in New York. He wore his Crimson red poncho that night. Andrea Davis took his picture which ended up on the back of the original Dorado Records release of the Cool & Steady & Easy album later that year. Yancy looked cool. He played a pretty steady fatback and was always easy going. He loved goofing around and cracking jokes. His smokey slapstick midnight radio DJ voice can be heard on BFE tracks like Big Apple Boogaloo, Mizz Bed-Stuy and Kik It! But he also had a tender tenor vocal as featured on Keep It Together on the 1998 In The Buzzbag album where he is duetting with Stephanie McKay. A song he also co-wrote. But more than anything, Yancy loved playing the drums. This was apparent from his big smile while grooving away. It was impossible not to be infected by this joy, either as a fellow band member or part of the audience. Check out Yancy’s pocket on I Got Cash, Date With Baby or his swirling Drum & Bass infused groove on By & Bye.
In the ’00s, health issues meant that Yancy could not always tour with BFE, but he continued to record with the band, playing on 2008’s Watcha Playin’ album as well as on the song Hold It Down from the Funk Ain’t Ova album in 2015.
Yancy Drew Lambert passed away peacefully surrounded by his family on July 4, 2026. His last wish was for those who knew and loved him to celebrate the good times and memories and not be sad for that which we cannot control.
Rest in forever gold, Yancy ❤️☮️🙂
Picture by Andrea Davis Kronlund from the Creator Has A Master Plan video shoot in Joshua Tree, California in 1995.