Wait For It – Omer B (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

I suspect that if you studied Omer B‘s DNA, you would find that in addition to the regular components, he has an additional one, labelled “F” for Funk, and I even suspect that this would be the dominant one in his genetic makeup. It’s the only way that you can explain how he does what he does.

Sure, you can try to learn to blend such funky fretwork, intertwine such sensational sonic salvos, lay down such a groove, and spend a lifetime studying it, and you would be lucky if you got reasonably close to such great music as is on offer here. A medical and anatomical explanation is undoubtedly the answer.

Here, aided and abetted by Yossi Fine, Omer B gives us Wait For It, as pleasing a funk fusion adventure as you could hope to encounter. As is always the case with his music, it has an immediacy, an instantaneously infectious quality that gets you hooked from the first bar.

And for those who seem to think that instrumental music is somehow secondary to it’s lyrical counterpart, as if that lack of words is somehow to the song’s detriment, listen to this again and tell me that those guitars are not talking to you – not just talking but singing and serenading and seducing the listener.