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BAND NAME: Secret Army
GENRE: Funk, Jazz Fusion, Experimental, Rock, World, Dub, R&B, Hip-Hop.
BAND MEMBERS:
Danny Bedrosian - Keyboards, Lead Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Lige Curry - Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Dewayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight - Lead Guitar (view Bio and Discography)
Marc Munoz - Guitar (view Bio and Discography)
Mike Maloney - Guitar, Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Rico Lewis - Drums, Hype Man (view Bio and Discography)
Teresa Jimenez - Backup Vocals (view Get Stereo Bio and Discography)
Elise Bedrosian - Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Kendra Foster - Backup Vocals
MARKETING: Secret Army has culled much of their live material from their self titled debut album, which was
released on September 1, 2006. The Secret Army album has thus far sold thousands of copies, not just in
the United States, but also largely in Europe, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand
and Australia. Secret Army is also currently performing material from Danny Bedrosian’s first album “Som’n
Fierce, which has sold thousands of copies internationally in the aforementioned markets. The third album,
the Sleaziest of the Greaze, has received much international attention as well, and has been recently
incorporated into the band’s repetoire. The band rounds out their setlist with some P-Funk classics, as a
large portion of the Secret Army rhythm section also comes from the bedrock of the current rhythm section
of Parliament-Funkadelic’s touring band. The band also released in 2006 a explosive and now sold-out
concert DVD, containing the band’s first ever live performance, as well as interviews, rare rehearsal
footage, and Bedrosian’s premier music video, featuring NYC based comedy troupe Murder Fist. The
newest Secret Army release has been the double-disc concept Masterpiece, entitled “The Sleaziest of the
Greaze” which features 26 musicians from 26 different world class bands, on 26 tracks. The album has sold
out in its short two month long span of availability, and more copies have recently been made to
accommodate the increased demand for this milestone double album. The band just finished a third album,
entitled Muzzle Moosick, containing both instrumental funk/fusion workouts, and vocal based R&B/Funk
material, with some interesting world music and bebop jazz spins. The band just opened for George Clinton
and Parliament-Funkadelic at the brand new House of Blues in Boston, MA to a sold out crowd of thousands
of screaming fans, and are opening at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL as well, their second time at the
Orlando venue opening for P-Funk.
SELLING POINTS: Among members of Secret Army, Bedrosian, Curry, McKnight, and Lewis all come from
Parliament-Funkadelic, which is one of the chosen few bands to be placed among the upper echelons of
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bedrosian and Curry also have played with the 420 Funk Mob, Drugs, and
Cacophonic FM. Bedrosian and Lewis are founding members of Children of Production, McKnight was the
original guitarist for Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, and was a onetime guitarist with Miles Davis and the
Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also was the Parliament-Funkadelic Music Director from 1980-2008. Curry was a
founding member of Incorporated Thang Band, and Starr Cullars. All four men between them have worked
100 years in the music business, touring all over the world, and appearing on hundreds of internationally
distributed albums. Curry and McKnight have been in the P-Funk camp for almost thirty years now. (Please
also refer to the respective discographies of select members) Various combinations of the aforementioned
members have appeared on movies such as PCU and the Night Before, and television shows such as the
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Bernie Mac Show, NY Undercover, The Late Show with David Letterman,
The Jerry Lewis telethon, Last Call with Carson Daly, The BET 25th Anniversary Show, The 2003 Grammys,
Saturday Night Live, and many more.
MARKETS: Secret Army’s major concentrations include but are not limited to the following regions. These
areas all contain active street teams that operate under the umbrella of BOZFONK MOOSICK, and are
subject to major advertising and promotional support services. The following names attributed to
respective states represent street team leaders and major distributors of BOZFONK products, and
supporting and/or affiliated radio stations and labels.
ALABAMA
Darcy Naylor
ALASKA
The MoonChild Fan Club
CALIFORNIA
Shelly Gomez, Matt Soucy, Carolyn Kokko, WEFUNK WEST
COLORADO
Laura McGaughey, & the U.S. Pipe Family
FLORIDA
Lisa Bedrosian, Shelly Gomez, Elise Bedrosian, Seth Cedars,
Marc Munoz, Mike Maloney, Teresa Jimenez, Ral Thomas, The
Soular System and Family, and the Panda Pavement Nation,
Jeff Kassabian, Dwayne Dungey and Unfunkwittable, Funk &
Blues Night group
NEW ENGLAND (MA, NH, ME, RI, CT, VT)
Mark D. Fortes, Ken Wilk, Gregg Albach, Monica Harty,
Jarod and Leah Winters, Josh Greenbaum, Adam
“Smitty” Smith, Nathan Boucher, Dan Forberg, Ila Mawana family,
Bedrosian family, WEMan Studios family, Jon Picken
NEW YORK (UPSTATE)
WEFUNK AD2K, Ariel Bauza, Jr.
NEW JERSEY
Brett Grau, Barrett Stevens
NYC
Richie Nagan, Ed Larson, Murderfist, John Deming, Nick Winslow
NORTH CAROLINA
Lauren Ray Bishop & Blair Bishop, Trinumeral Family,
Big Ol’ Nasty Family
PENNSYLVANIA
Bill Fagan
TENNESSEE
Cliffy D
WASHINGTON AND OREGON
Glen Grau
* It is to note that the stores and distributors listed also cater to, or have regional localities in surrounding
states in some cases, and international distribution in most cases.
International:
U.K.- Adrian & David Barratt. Various Radio play
RUSSIA-Ol’neva Irina & Ilia Trakhtman, C.L.O.N.E, Natasha Pavlova, Miklosh, DJJenia, Mark, Felix
Lahuti, the Urban Funk Army, Sasha Melnik, and The Russian Funk Coalition.
NEW ZEALAND- Auckland’s largest Record Store handles some distribution.
FRANCE- Various Radio (Paris), Midem Table 16.16 for 2007 & 2008 (Cannes), Jazz music journalist
connections (Nice), WEFUNK international, WEFUNK France, Jean-Pierre.
POLAND- Some limited airplay (Warsaw)
NETHERLANDS- WEFUNK Holland, www.wefunk.nl, www.dannybedrosian.hyves.nl, Serge Dodwell, Ten,
Fabian, and the Track Addicts Family, Adam Dunn, HempHoodLamb, and Various radio airplay
JAPAN-WEFUNK Japan, Various airplay on blogger websites with digital downloads.
AUSTRALIA-Chris and Elise Fagan, as well as some limited airplay.
CANADA-JP Falconer, and Various radio airplay
IRELAND-Paul Quinn, and Boogie Down Productions (European booking agency)
Recent Secret Army Shows include:
~Tallahassee, FL-Clydes & Costellos-upscale club behind the Governor’s building, debuting Secret Army for
the first time. Also with opener The Soular System.
~Orlando FL-House of Blues at Disneyworld Opening up for George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
~St. Louis, MO-The Broadway Oyster-an amazing P-Funk after show sponsored by Zoe Fest
~Tallahassee, FL-HempFest sponsored by norml at Florida State University
~Waterbury, CT-The Hip-Hop Funk Festival.
~Manhattan, NY-Blackbyrd Mcknight’s band at the Black Rock Coalition sponsored show.
~Deerfields, NC-As one of the main acts at the 8th TRINUMERAL festival on 8/8/08.
~Tallahassee, FL-Radio show on V89, radio station for FSU.
~House of Blues-opening for George Clinton and P-Funk-Boston, MA
ALBUM OVERVIEW: Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Danny Bedrosian's sophomore album, SECRET ARMY
is a masterwork of soundscapes, grooves, conceptual analyses, and musical marvels. It is the first of the
Secret Army series of albums that will be concluded this winter with the next installment: The sleaziest of
the Greaze. Bedrosian tackles many new genres not yet reached on Som'n fierce, such as his classical
roots, as well as gospel, Armenian Folk Music, Bebop, Ambient, Fusion, and more, but still has that hard
poot fonk for the Hard stompin' Pfunk Fans.And the special guests abound here too: Pfunk's Dewayne
"Blackbyrd" Mcknight, and Lige Curry are on most of this masterpiece's tracks (they are founding members
of Secret Army too after all) along with former Sweet Motha Child and current Secret Army members Marc
Munoz, & Seth Ceders, The Soular System's Ral Bryant, Som'n Fierce's Duane Day, and virtually everyone
who has been in Sweet Motha Child. This album is a mixture of styles and suggestions to the political,
cultural situation in America today. Nineteen tracks strong, and full of amazing textural, compositional
material, Secret Army will not bore its listeners. Danny Bedrosian is the regular keyboardist for not just
George Clinton qnd Parliament Funkadelic, but also The Soular System, The 420 Funk Mob, The Children of
Production, GCIII, and his own band appropriately called THE SECRET ARMY; Danny utilizes his important
musical abilities on this new album, having been classically trained on piano since the age of four. His funk
chops serve up some true to the game stank too. And the exploration itself is a deep, beautiful AND
harrowing journey through some really uncharted waters. Danny is proving he is not just able to play
legitimately in many genres, but that he is truly creating something never heard in funk or any other genre
for that matter. Do not miss the revolutionary music of Danny Bedrosian in his most ambitious, meaningful,
musically and lyrically superior masterwork.
PRESS: The following press releases and reviews come from various bands that have worked with Secret
Army bandleader Danny Bedrosian. Others come from reviews among P-Funk fans on the One Nation Board
Room, the unofficial P-Funk fan page. The comments refer to Bedrosian’s Som’n Fierce album, as well as
Secret Army, the new double disc Sleaziest of the Greaze, and his involvement in the music business:
Bedrosian is a well-accomplished musician, producer, engineer, historian, and current keyboardist for
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic (P-Funk), one of the most influential acts in music’s history. He
joined the band as a keyboard technician and occasional player in December 2003, but soon moved up the
ranks due to his overwhelming talent. He is known within the group as having an uncanny knack to play
anything, as well as the ability to cite P-Funk history effortlessly and accurately. U.S. Pipe lead man and
fellow P-Funk member Citrus says, “Danny is the new mad scientist of P-Funk.”
In September of 2005, Bedrosian released his solo debut album, Som’n Fierce, which received rave
reviews. His sophomore album, Secret Army, was released the following year to even more praise. Both
albums feature special guest appearances by the P-Funk family, including Lige Curry, Dewayne “Blackbyrd”
McKnight and Michael “Clip” Payne.
Bedrosian has also played keyboards for myriad P-Funk offshoot bands, among them 420 Funk Mob, Drugs,
Cacophonic FM and Children of Production. His credits include appearances on the BET 25th Anniversary
Spectacular, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Last Call with Carson Daly.
-Laura McGaughey
The latest from keyboardist Danny Bedrosian. The newest Funkadelic enlists veteran PFunk members Lige
Curry and Blackbyrd McKnight on this funky assault on the senses. Who says you can't teach old dogs some
new tricks. Cacophonic, Symphonic, Strangely melodic. Funky Fusion with a sense of humor. A must for the
true funk fan.
-Review, WEFUNK
Original, improvisational, flow, fluent, thick, imagination, reverence, wit, avant-garde, folksy, stank,
creativity, tasty, free-formness. Rural, countrified fonk. No pretense. All of these descriptive concepts come
to mind after hearing the ear-splitting, amoeba shape-shifting fonk of the "New Clone on the Block" aboard
George Clinton’s ever-spiraling Mothership, master keys wiz Danny Bedrosian. Its unbeknownst to me just
how Danny’s funkentelech came to be recognized and ushered into the GC fold, but one things for sure, he’
s a welcome addition indeed.
Its Danny’s wizardry and improvisational skills that not only allowed me to stomach George’s re-smackling of
the Jerry Lee Lewis hit, "Whole Lotta Shakin’" but to actually enjoy and get up and move my ass to the track.
He also adds the much needed BW (Bernie Worrell) element to live Pee classics like "Bop Gun" and
"Funkentelechy". But enough of his contributions to GCs mob, up from the North Florida (current site of PF’
s earthly operations) swamp comes a sound so distinct, fresh, and dank that it could have only have been
birthed there.
What Danny is basically doing on the keys and synth I think is taking the BW Skool of Key Quirk to another
level. Some other chit indeed. All of Bernie’s favorite ingredients are mixed up in the Bedrosian stew.
Classical baby grand, pipe organ, clavinet, B3 and totally mind-numbing synth squiggles/effects of sonic
intensity are all thrown up against a heavy wall of stacked funk. When any keyboardist is able to produce
sounds so pleasingly strange and unknown, not unlike BW, and you find yourself asking , "how in the world
did he do that?!"; that my funkateer friend, is the mark, the true barometer of a genuine key-wizard.
Musical mentor Jerome Rogers makes his presence felt on the gospel-tinged "New Clone", which is one of
my faves. I’ll bet this track was of the same sessions that produced Jerome’s own track "Overload", from
his cd. "Corn" and "Co-Writer" woulda fit right in the pocket on a Weapon of Choice cd, outrageous wit over
equally elastic groove. Danny’s saucy, wiry vocals are no more prevalent than on the slithery remake of
Funkadelic’s "Soul Mate".
With his Prince-like satin sheet whining and Clinton-esque space vocals, he just lays the song all the way
out, slows the tempo of the original and sings and plays every last note in the most rapturous, sacred way
imaginable. Lige Curry joins him here on bass and Jerome adds some awesome guitar licks remnant "P.E.
Squad/DooDoo Chasers". Funkateers will also delight over his cover of the obscure early Parliaments tune
"Don’t Be Sore At Me". Clip Payne of 420 FM fame contributes mightily to "Cop This", 5 minutes of Mr.
Bedrosian’s experiments into nether regions of synth-stank.
Over a mid tempo funk vamp, he pulls sounds thru the synthesizer from the outer reaches of the universe.
He is a Bernie Worrell/Jerome Rodgers prodigy who sings as well He even raps ,offering up on "Speed
Bump" an accelerated spit-fire delivery that’s sure to remind aficionados of Drug’s "Mis America". "Bump N’
Da Nite" is just pure sex, freeknasty and lascivious vocally, lyrically and musically as well.
Free form funkin’ with no limits. Some of it simply (for lack of a better word) beautiful ("Retaining Grace"
and "Lisa’s Lullaby"). That same sprit accompanies all of these gems. This cd is also a testament to what I’ve
noticed of this next generation of P-Funkers (Zootzilla, Trey Lewd, RonKat, etc). Far from copying the Pee,
its in their veins. The DNA has been mutated. Abilities of the same frequency that seem to oscillate at a
certain level always find one another in time, and express themselves.
What’s in you is gonna come out of you sooner or later, and it flows out of Danny Bedrosian naturally. No
matter what time you are born, if that ‘P’ gene is in you, the phenotype will be expressed. That’s why funk
will never die. Believe me, 1000 years from now, P-Funk will still resonate on certain other levels. Its
because of raw sprits and talents like Bedrosian, living , feeling, embodying the funk itself. Reviewed For
TheFunkStore.com by Funk Journalist & Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Anytime you Q up a Danny Bedrosian/BozFunk project you must understand one thing: You are about to be
taken into the most diverse, sonic, alternate musical reality imaginable today. Here is a band unafraid to
take you into musical territories you had no idea existed. Produced by a man whose unabashed, limitless
creativity is downright scary. Classical, neo-soul, hip-hop, funkadelia, acid-metal, FUNK, jazz textures
contribute to this metaphorical take on an industrialist/technological future template of what mankind may
very well ultimately realize in his techno-charged days to come.
Not unlike Parliament’s late-70s take on what The Dr. coined the "Placebo Syndrome", Sleaziest of the
Greaze not only provides the listener a hardcore, genuine throwback to the Funkadelic concept LPs of the
mid-70's but a time-traveling fantasmic boost into the year 4000, where we find the anti-hero title character
exploring the possibilities of time travel back to the old west circa 1870, upon which he assumes his alter
ego & the centerpiece of the LP, the blistering 9-minute plus incredible, key signature-shifting atomic
blooze of the "Sloppy Rider"(its your birfday he’s gonna spoil, out from his eyes comes oil). The stomp is so
thick I can hardly handle it, Crank It!!!!!
A true concept LP that defines the very genre. The band’s sophomore set pulsates, throbs, and oozes with
the thickest, densest funk grooves you’ll ever hear. But it ain’t just the muzac that makes U wanna funk.
Therein you’ll meet cosmic characters like Gen. Harvey CremeFrame (gets OFF by by rubbing coffee
creamer onto a picture frame) , Miss Goody Two-Shoes (a Witch/Ho with 3 feet), the Cookie Monztah (who
had the escaped ‘borg in his "doughy clutches") & the perpetually-stoned Flushworthy. All splanking your
mind & booty with a space/time, science friction imagery that even celebrated artiste Pedro Bell would be
wise to take note of.
If the music here is awesome, on some totally other chyt, just check the story line (introduced in the
hilarious "Sleaze Sonata"). A brief recap iz in order: it seems millions of years in the future humans have
learned how to create life from machines and DNA (it ain’t that far off y’all). A cyborg, a cosmic blunder made
from the fluids of their deceased coined "Sleaziest of the Greaze"
(Supposedly guarded by the last surviving hippie Flushworthy), manages to catapult hisself into immortal
Godhood by escaping the Android Plant in Mr.D’s time machine and assumes the identity of the Sloppy
Rider in the old west. His major antagonist Gaseous Thunder sends his slippery minions including Cookie ,
the Flossin’ Lobster and Miss Goody Two Shoes (she’s good, she’s badd, she’s ugly) in an attempt to
render Sleaziest impotent, but it ain’t gonna work ‘dis tyme.
Soundz like a new Parliament album or som’n don’t it? Cyborgs galore, DNA, liquifyed organs, Danny B has
crafted some of his most diverse vocalistic expressions this side of Junie Morrison (check the outrageous
"Gaseous Thunder"). It ain’t just about Bedrosian either. Like a modern day Sly Stone, he uses master
musicians to craft this most ambitious vision. Jazz vocalist Teresa Jimenez gives a show-stopping ‘mass-
produced turbo boost’ to "Radio Flyer" & "Miss Fortune". .
Guitar slayer Marc Munoz channeling Eddie Hazel on "Sway Songs", and can I just say that Lige Curry is a
str8 badd-azz on bass guitar with gritty jams like the aforementioned "Cookie Monztah" & "Sloppy Rider"
plus the throbbing way too fonkay "Butt Medicine". PFAS Rico Lewis pounding the skins like no tommorow.
And a gang of others too numerous to mention. A double-barreled two cd set of the next dimension in
groove leaving all competition in it’s wake. As Danny sings on one of the most swanging cuts, ‘ there ain’t
nothin’ wrong with what you doin’ just "Don’t Insult Me" by calling it funk.
Reviewed For TheFunkStore.com..By
Funk Journalist&Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Compiled For TheFunkStore.com..By:Tylard Tatt II
Danny Bedrosian Presents:
SECRET ARMY
27-year-old musician Danny Bedrosian is the current keyboardist for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars,
as well as a half a dozen other bands around the nation and the world. Bedrosian is the lead vocalist,
keyboardist, producer, chief songwriter, arranger and publisher for Secret Army. This band is a patchwork
of genres, races, ethnicities, genders, and spiritual creeds under one unifying musical force. Also at the
fore of the band is Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All Stars stalwarts Dewayne Blackbyrd McKnight on lead
guitar, and Lige Curry on Bass Guitar. Mcknight also was a member of Herbie Hancock’s, Headhunters, as
well as onetime guitarist for Miles Davis and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also resides as the current
Musical Director for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. Bassist Lige Curry is a longtime P-Funk bassist,
vocalist, writer, and all around contributor whose songwriting talents grace most of Secret Army’s
repertoire as well. The solid bedrock of two drummers make up the Secret Army’s percussion section, both
Rico Lewis, who is George Clinton and The P-Funk All-Stars’ main drummer, lending a pound of foot to the
all pervading mix of Funk, Ethnic Middle Eastern music, R&B, Hip-Hop, Rock, and proto classical
movements. The Guitar section is continually rounded up by German-born, Boston bred virtuoso guitarist
Marc Munoz, as well as the talented Guitarist from the Soular System, Mike Maloney. Additional vocals are
handled by the extremely talented jazz vocalist Teresa Jimenez, and the elusive Alaskan folk singer Moon
Child. Secret Army is quickly proving its own innovative brand of alternative music, thus lending an
important commentary on the state of unity in our world. The hypnotic musical journey, both endearing and
baffling, will leave the listeners in endless delight at the new sounds. Secret Army is finally polished with
the animation and cartoons of artist Nathan Boucher, who brings an especially unique attention to detail
and shimmering colors. Secret Army also serves up a potentially marketable sound, with a youthful energy
important to its image and its sound that is virtually unmistakable. This band has a sound and look that one
will never forget; don’t miss out on Secret Army.
Tigran Hovanessian
BOZFONK MOOSICK Biographer.
GENRE: Funk, Jazz Fusion, Experimental, Rock, World, Dub, R&B, Hip-Hop.
BAND MEMBERS:
Danny Bedrosian - Keyboards, Lead Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Lige Curry - Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Dewayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight - Lead Guitar (view Bio and Discography)
Marc Munoz - Guitar (view Bio and Discography)
Mike Maloney - Guitar, Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Rico Lewis - Drums, Hype Man (view Bio and Discography)
Teresa Jimenez - Backup Vocals (view Get Stereo Bio and Discography)
Elise Bedrosian - Backup Vocals (view Bio and Discography)
Kendra Foster - Backup Vocals
MARKETING: Secret Army has culled much of their live material from their self titled debut album, which was
released on September 1, 2006. The Secret Army album has thus far sold thousands of copies, not just in
the United States, but also largely in Europe, Russia, Japan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand
and Australia. Secret Army is also currently performing material from Danny Bedrosian’s first album “Som’n
Fierce, which has sold thousands of copies internationally in the aforementioned markets. The third album,
the Sleaziest of the Greaze, has received much international attention as well, and has been recently
incorporated into the band’s repetoire. The band rounds out their setlist with some P-Funk classics, as a
large portion of the Secret Army rhythm section also comes from the bedrock of the current rhythm section
of Parliament-Funkadelic’s touring band. The band also released in 2006 a explosive and now sold-out
concert DVD, containing the band’s first ever live performance, as well as interviews, rare rehearsal
footage, and Bedrosian’s premier music video, featuring NYC based comedy troupe Murder Fist. The
newest Secret Army release has been the double-disc concept Masterpiece, entitled “The Sleaziest of the
Greaze” which features 26 musicians from 26 different world class bands, on 26 tracks. The album has sold
out in its short two month long span of availability, and more copies have recently been made to
accommodate the increased demand for this milestone double album. The band just finished a third album,
entitled Muzzle Moosick, containing both instrumental funk/fusion workouts, and vocal based R&B/Funk
material, with some interesting world music and bebop jazz spins. The band just opened for George Clinton
and Parliament-Funkadelic at the brand new House of Blues in Boston, MA to a sold out crowd of thousands
of screaming fans, and are opening at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL as well, their second time at the
Orlando venue opening for P-Funk.
SELLING POINTS: Among members of Secret Army, Bedrosian, Curry, McKnight, and Lewis all come from
Parliament-Funkadelic, which is one of the chosen few bands to be placed among the upper echelons of
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Bedrosian and Curry also have played with the 420 Funk Mob, Drugs, and
Cacophonic FM. Bedrosian and Lewis are founding members of Children of Production, McKnight was the
original guitarist for Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters, and was a onetime guitarist with Miles Davis and the
Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also was the Parliament-Funkadelic Music Director from 1980-2008. Curry was a
founding member of Incorporated Thang Band, and Starr Cullars. All four men between them have worked
100 years in the music business, touring all over the world, and appearing on hundreds of internationally
distributed albums. Curry and McKnight have been in the P-Funk camp for almost thirty years now. (Please
also refer to the respective discographies of select members) Various combinations of the aforementioned
members have appeared on movies such as PCU and the Night Before, and television shows such as the
Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Bernie Mac Show, NY Undercover, The Late Show with David Letterman,
The Jerry Lewis telethon, Last Call with Carson Daly, The BET 25th Anniversary Show, The 2003 Grammys,
Saturday Night Live, and many more.
MARKETS: Secret Army’s major concentrations include but are not limited to the following regions. These
areas all contain active street teams that operate under the umbrella of BOZFONK MOOSICK, and are
subject to major advertising and promotional support services. The following names attributed to
respective states represent street team leaders and major distributors of BOZFONK products, and
supporting and/or affiliated radio stations and labels.
ALABAMA
Darcy Naylor
ALASKA
The MoonChild Fan Club
CALIFORNIA
Shelly Gomez, Matt Soucy, Carolyn Kokko, WEFUNK WEST
COLORADO
Laura McGaughey, & the U.S. Pipe Family
FLORIDA
Lisa Bedrosian, Shelly Gomez, Elise Bedrosian, Seth Cedars,
Marc Munoz, Mike Maloney, Teresa Jimenez, Ral Thomas, The
Soular System and Family, and the Panda Pavement Nation,
Jeff Kassabian, Dwayne Dungey and Unfunkwittable, Funk &
Blues Night group
NEW ENGLAND (MA, NH, ME, RI, CT, VT)
Mark D. Fortes, Ken Wilk, Gregg Albach, Monica Harty,
Jarod and Leah Winters, Josh Greenbaum, Adam
“Smitty” Smith, Nathan Boucher, Dan Forberg, Ila Mawana family,
Bedrosian family, WEMan Studios family, Jon Picken
NEW YORK (UPSTATE)
WEFUNK AD2K, Ariel Bauza, Jr.
NEW JERSEY
Brett Grau, Barrett Stevens
NYC
Richie Nagan, Ed Larson, Murderfist, John Deming, Nick Winslow
NORTH CAROLINA
Lauren Ray Bishop & Blair Bishop, Trinumeral Family,
Big Ol’ Nasty Family
PENNSYLVANIA
Bill Fagan
TENNESSEE
Cliffy D
WASHINGTON AND OREGON
Glen Grau
* It is to note that the stores and distributors listed also cater to, or have regional localities in surrounding
states in some cases, and international distribution in most cases.
International:
U.K.- Adrian & David Barratt. Various Radio play
RUSSIA-Ol’neva Irina & Ilia Trakhtman, C.L.O.N.E, Natasha Pavlova, Miklosh, DJJenia, Mark, Felix
Lahuti, the Urban Funk Army, Sasha Melnik, and The Russian Funk Coalition.
NEW ZEALAND- Auckland’s largest Record Store handles some distribution.
FRANCE- Various Radio (Paris), Midem Table 16.16 for 2007 & 2008 (Cannes), Jazz music journalist
connections (Nice), WEFUNK international, WEFUNK France, Jean-Pierre.
POLAND- Some limited airplay (Warsaw)
NETHERLANDS- WEFUNK Holland, www.wefunk.nl, www.dannybedrosian.hyves.nl, Serge Dodwell, Ten,
Fabian, and the Track Addicts Family, Adam Dunn, HempHoodLamb, and Various radio airplay
JAPAN-WEFUNK Japan, Various airplay on blogger websites with digital downloads.
AUSTRALIA-Chris and Elise Fagan, as well as some limited airplay.
CANADA-JP Falconer, and Various radio airplay
IRELAND-Paul Quinn, and Boogie Down Productions (European booking agency)
Recent Secret Army Shows include:
~Tallahassee, FL-Clydes & Costellos-upscale club behind the Governor’s building, debuting Secret Army for
the first time. Also with opener The Soular System.
~Orlando FL-House of Blues at Disneyworld Opening up for George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic
~St. Louis, MO-The Broadway Oyster-an amazing P-Funk after show sponsored by Zoe Fest
~Tallahassee, FL-HempFest sponsored by norml at Florida State University
~Waterbury, CT-The Hip-Hop Funk Festival.
~Manhattan, NY-Blackbyrd Mcknight’s band at the Black Rock Coalition sponsored show.
~Deerfields, NC-As one of the main acts at the 8th TRINUMERAL festival on 8/8/08.
~Tallahassee, FL-Radio show on V89, radio station for FSU.
~House of Blues-opening for George Clinton and P-Funk-Boston, MA
ALBUM OVERVIEW: Parliament Funkadelic keyboardist Danny Bedrosian's sophomore album, SECRET ARMY
is a masterwork of soundscapes, grooves, conceptual analyses, and musical marvels. It is the first of the
Secret Army series of albums that will be concluded this winter with the next installment: The sleaziest of
the Greaze. Bedrosian tackles many new genres not yet reached on Som'n fierce, such as his classical
roots, as well as gospel, Armenian Folk Music, Bebop, Ambient, Fusion, and more, but still has that hard
poot fonk for the Hard stompin' Pfunk Fans.And the special guests abound here too: Pfunk's Dewayne
"Blackbyrd" Mcknight, and Lige Curry are on most of this masterpiece's tracks (they are founding members
of Secret Army too after all) along with former Sweet Motha Child and current Secret Army members Marc
Munoz, & Seth Ceders, The Soular System's Ral Bryant, Som'n Fierce's Duane Day, and virtually everyone
who has been in Sweet Motha Child. This album is a mixture of styles and suggestions to the political,
cultural situation in America today. Nineteen tracks strong, and full of amazing textural, compositional
material, Secret Army will not bore its listeners. Danny Bedrosian is the regular keyboardist for not just
George Clinton qnd Parliament Funkadelic, but also The Soular System, The 420 Funk Mob, The Children of
Production, GCIII, and his own band appropriately called THE SECRET ARMY; Danny utilizes his important
musical abilities on this new album, having been classically trained on piano since the age of four. His funk
chops serve up some true to the game stank too. And the exploration itself is a deep, beautiful AND
harrowing journey through some really uncharted waters. Danny is proving he is not just able to play
legitimately in many genres, but that he is truly creating something never heard in funk or any other genre
for that matter. Do not miss the revolutionary music of Danny Bedrosian in his most ambitious, meaningful,
musically and lyrically superior masterwork.
PRESS: The following press releases and reviews come from various bands that have worked with Secret
Army bandleader Danny Bedrosian. Others come from reviews among P-Funk fans on the One Nation Board
Room, the unofficial P-Funk fan page. The comments refer to Bedrosian’s Som’n Fierce album, as well as
Secret Army, the new double disc Sleaziest of the Greaze, and his involvement in the music business:
Bedrosian is a well-accomplished musician, producer, engineer, historian, and current keyboardist for
George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic (P-Funk), one of the most influential acts in music’s history. He
joined the band as a keyboard technician and occasional player in December 2003, but soon moved up the
ranks due to his overwhelming talent. He is known within the group as having an uncanny knack to play
anything, as well as the ability to cite P-Funk history effortlessly and accurately. U.S. Pipe lead man and
fellow P-Funk member Citrus says, “Danny is the new mad scientist of P-Funk.”
In September of 2005, Bedrosian released his solo debut album, Som’n Fierce, which received rave
reviews. His sophomore album, Secret Army, was released the following year to even more praise. Both
albums feature special guest appearances by the P-Funk family, including Lige Curry, Dewayne “Blackbyrd”
McKnight and Michael “Clip” Payne.
Bedrosian has also played keyboards for myriad P-Funk offshoot bands, among them 420 Funk Mob, Drugs,
Cacophonic FM and Children of Production. His credits include appearances on the BET 25th Anniversary
Spectacular, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Last Call with Carson Daly.
-Laura McGaughey
The latest from keyboardist Danny Bedrosian. The newest Funkadelic enlists veteran PFunk members Lige
Curry and Blackbyrd McKnight on this funky assault on the senses. Who says you can't teach old dogs some
new tricks. Cacophonic, Symphonic, Strangely melodic. Funky Fusion with a sense of humor. A must for the
true funk fan.
-Review, WEFUNK
Original, improvisational, flow, fluent, thick, imagination, reverence, wit, avant-garde, folksy, stank,
creativity, tasty, free-formness. Rural, countrified fonk. No pretense. All of these descriptive concepts come
to mind after hearing the ear-splitting, amoeba shape-shifting fonk of the "New Clone on the Block" aboard
George Clinton’s ever-spiraling Mothership, master keys wiz Danny Bedrosian. Its unbeknownst to me just
how Danny’s funkentelech came to be recognized and ushered into the GC fold, but one things for sure, he’
s a welcome addition indeed.
Its Danny’s wizardry and improvisational skills that not only allowed me to stomach George’s re-smackling of
the Jerry Lee Lewis hit, "Whole Lotta Shakin’" but to actually enjoy and get up and move my ass to the track.
He also adds the much needed BW (Bernie Worrell) element to live Pee classics like "Bop Gun" and
"Funkentelechy". But enough of his contributions to GCs mob, up from the North Florida (current site of PF’
s earthly operations) swamp comes a sound so distinct, fresh, and dank that it could have only have been
birthed there.
What Danny is basically doing on the keys and synth I think is taking the BW Skool of Key Quirk to another
level. Some other chit indeed. All of Bernie’s favorite ingredients are mixed up in the Bedrosian stew.
Classical baby grand, pipe organ, clavinet, B3 and totally mind-numbing synth squiggles/effects of sonic
intensity are all thrown up against a heavy wall of stacked funk. When any keyboardist is able to produce
sounds so pleasingly strange and unknown, not unlike BW, and you find yourself asking , "how in the world
did he do that?!"; that my funkateer friend, is the mark, the true barometer of a genuine key-wizard.
Musical mentor Jerome Rogers makes his presence felt on the gospel-tinged "New Clone", which is one of
my faves. I’ll bet this track was of the same sessions that produced Jerome’s own track "Overload", from
his cd. "Corn" and "Co-Writer" woulda fit right in the pocket on a Weapon of Choice cd, outrageous wit over
equally elastic groove. Danny’s saucy, wiry vocals are no more prevalent than on the slithery remake of
Funkadelic’s "Soul Mate".
With his Prince-like satin sheet whining and Clinton-esque space vocals, he just lays the song all the way
out, slows the tempo of the original and sings and plays every last note in the most rapturous, sacred way
imaginable. Lige Curry joins him here on bass and Jerome adds some awesome guitar licks remnant "P.E.
Squad/DooDoo Chasers". Funkateers will also delight over his cover of the obscure early Parliaments tune
"Don’t Be Sore At Me". Clip Payne of 420 FM fame contributes mightily to "Cop This", 5 minutes of Mr.
Bedrosian’s experiments into nether regions of synth-stank.
Over a mid tempo funk vamp, he pulls sounds thru the synthesizer from the outer reaches of the universe.
He is a Bernie Worrell/Jerome Rodgers prodigy who sings as well He even raps ,offering up on "Speed
Bump" an accelerated spit-fire delivery that’s sure to remind aficionados of Drug’s "Mis America". "Bump N’
Da Nite" is just pure sex, freeknasty and lascivious vocally, lyrically and musically as well.
Free form funkin’ with no limits. Some of it simply (for lack of a better word) beautiful ("Retaining Grace"
and "Lisa’s Lullaby"). That same sprit accompanies all of these gems. This cd is also a testament to what I’ve
noticed of this next generation of P-Funkers (Zootzilla, Trey Lewd, RonKat, etc). Far from copying the Pee,
its in their veins. The DNA has been mutated. Abilities of the same frequency that seem to oscillate at a
certain level always find one another in time, and express themselves.
What’s in you is gonna come out of you sooner or later, and it flows out of Danny Bedrosian naturally. No
matter what time you are born, if that ‘P’ gene is in you, the phenotype will be expressed. That’s why funk
will never die. Believe me, 1000 years from now, P-Funk will still resonate on certain other levels. Its
because of raw sprits and talents like Bedrosian, living , feeling, embodying the funk itself. Reviewed For
TheFunkStore.com by Funk Journalist & Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Anytime you Q up a Danny Bedrosian/BozFunk project you must understand one thing: You are about to be
taken into the most diverse, sonic, alternate musical reality imaginable today. Here is a band unafraid to
take you into musical territories you had no idea existed. Produced by a man whose unabashed, limitless
creativity is downright scary. Classical, neo-soul, hip-hop, funkadelia, acid-metal, FUNK, jazz textures
contribute to this metaphorical take on an industrialist/technological future template of what mankind may
very well ultimately realize in his techno-charged days to come.
Not unlike Parliament’s late-70s take on what The Dr. coined the "Placebo Syndrome", Sleaziest of the
Greaze not only provides the listener a hardcore, genuine throwback to the Funkadelic concept LPs of the
mid-70's but a time-traveling fantasmic boost into the year 4000, where we find the anti-hero title character
exploring the possibilities of time travel back to the old west circa 1870, upon which he assumes his alter
ego & the centerpiece of the LP, the blistering 9-minute plus incredible, key signature-shifting atomic
blooze of the "Sloppy Rider"(its your birfday he’s gonna spoil, out from his eyes comes oil). The stomp is so
thick I can hardly handle it, Crank It!!!!!
A true concept LP that defines the very genre. The band’s sophomore set pulsates, throbs, and oozes with
the thickest, densest funk grooves you’ll ever hear. But it ain’t just the muzac that makes U wanna funk.
Therein you’ll meet cosmic characters like Gen. Harvey CremeFrame (gets OFF by by rubbing coffee
creamer onto a picture frame) , Miss Goody Two-Shoes (a Witch/Ho with 3 feet), the Cookie Monztah (who
had the escaped ‘borg in his "doughy clutches") & the perpetually-stoned Flushworthy. All splanking your
mind & booty with a space/time, science friction imagery that even celebrated artiste Pedro Bell would be
wise to take note of.
If the music here is awesome, on some totally other chyt, just check the story line (introduced in the
hilarious "Sleaze Sonata"). A brief recap iz in order: it seems millions of years in the future humans have
learned how to create life from machines and DNA (it ain’t that far off y’all). A cyborg, a cosmic blunder made
from the fluids of their deceased coined "Sleaziest of the Greaze"
(Supposedly guarded by the last surviving hippie Flushworthy), manages to catapult hisself into immortal
Godhood by escaping the Android Plant in Mr.D’s time machine and assumes the identity of the Sloppy
Rider in the old west. His major antagonist Gaseous Thunder sends his slippery minions including Cookie ,
the Flossin’ Lobster and Miss Goody Two Shoes (she’s good, she’s badd, she’s ugly) in an attempt to
render Sleaziest impotent, but it ain’t gonna work ‘dis tyme.
Soundz like a new Parliament album or som’n don’t it? Cyborgs galore, DNA, liquifyed organs, Danny B has
crafted some of his most diverse vocalistic expressions this side of Junie Morrison (check the outrageous
"Gaseous Thunder"). It ain’t just about Bedrosian either. Like a modern day Sly Stone, he uses master
musicians to craft this most ambitious vision. Jazz vocalist Teresa Jimenez gives a show-stopping ‘mass-
produced turbo boost’ to "Radio Flyer" & "Miss Fortune". .
Guitar slayer Marc Munoz channeling Eddie Hazel on "Sway Songs", and can I just say that Lige Curry is a
str8 badd-azz on bass guitar with gritty jams like the aforementioned "Cookie Monztah" & "Sloppy Rider"
plus the throbbing way too fonkay "Butt Medicine". PFAS Rico Lewis pounding the skins like no tommorow.
And a gang of others too numerous to mention. A double-barreled two cd set of the next dimension in
groove leaving all competition in it’s wake. As Danny sings on one of the most swanging cuts, ‘ there ain’t
nothin’ wrong with what you doin’ just "Don’t Insult Me" by calling it funk.
Reviewed For TheFunkStore.com..By
Funk Journalist&Atlanta Radio Personality~"Bustin'"Bob Mitchell
Compiled For TheFunkStore.com..By:Tylard Tatt II
Danny Bedrosian Presents:
SECRET ARMY
27-year-old musician Danny Bedrosian is the current keyboardist for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars,
as well as a half a dozen other bands around the nation and the world. Bedrosian is the lead vocalist,
keyboardist, producer, chief songwriter, arranger and publisher for Secret Army. This band is a patchwork
of genres, races, ethnicities, genders, and spiritual creeds under one unifying musical force. Also at the
fore of the band is Parliament-Funkadelic/P-Funk All Stars stalwarts Dewayne Blackbyrd McKnight on lead
guitar, and Lige Curry on Bass Guitar. Mcknight also was a member of Herbie Hancock’s, Headhunters, as
well as onetime guitarist for Miles Davis and The Red Hot Chili Peppers. He also resides as the current
Musical Director for George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars. Bassist Lige Curry is a longtime P-Funk bassist,
vocalist, writer, and all around contributor whose songwriting talents grace most of Secret Army’s
repertoire as well. The solid bedrock of two drummers make up the Secret Army’s percussion section, both
Rico Lewis, who is George Clinton and The P-Funk All-Stars’ main drummer, lending a pound of foot to the
all pervading mix of Funk, Ethnic Middle Eastern music, R&B, Hip-Hop, Rock, and proto classical
movements. The Guitar section is continually rounded up by German-born, Boston bred virtuoso guitarist
Marc Munoz, as well as the talented Guitarist from the Soular System, Mike Maloney. Additional vocals are
handled by the extremely talented jazz vocalist Teresa Jimenez, and the elusive Alaskan folk singer Moon
Child. Secret Army is quickly proving its own innovative brand of alternative music, thus lending an
important commentary on the state of unity in our world. The hypnotic musical journey, both endearing and
baffling, will leave the listeners in endless delight at the new sounds. Secret Army is finally polished with
the animation and cartoons of artist Nathan Boucher, who brings an especially unique attention to detail
and shimmering colors. Secret Army also serves up a potentially marketable sound, with a youthful energy
important to its image and its sound that is virtually unmistakable. This band has a sound and look that one
will never forget; don’t miss out on Secret Army.
Tigran Hovanessian
BOZFONK MOOSICK Biographer.
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