Soulful, earthy beats characterize Three Generations Walking

Three Generations Walking

Tonight

Brew House Performance Space, $8…

Three Generations Walking

Tonight

Brew House Performance Space, $8

I.A.C. Garage, 2100 Mary St., South Side

(412) 381-7767

At Valhalla last Friday evening, I met Soy Sos, Christiane D and their group Soma Mestizo, which is tied “incestually” (according to Soy Sos) to Three Generations Walking, a group that mixes “deep house music” that is worldly, not icy, electronic or thumpy but “spiritual life music.”

Soy Sos approached me, dreadlocks sweeping down his back, black square glasses framing his face, wearing an Adidas shirt and still moving his head and hands as if playing the guitar. He says he has tailored his guitar skills to fit the tone of his vocalist, Christiane D. Christiane D is a visible artist in the Pittsburgh area and an up-and-coming talent, according to Pittsburgh magazine. She was recently featured in their November issue as one of the “40 under 40” – top 40 most talented people under the age of 40. She is making her way with her varying dramatic vocals, her flowing spirit and with her deep brown eyes that draw the audience into her world of music.

Soy Sos not only plays the guitar, but he is also a disk jockey with Three Generations Walking, where he works with MKL, a New York City-based DJ to create new tones and mixes. Soy Sos and MKL are a dynamic duo pushing through the threshold of normalcy to present vibrant and poignant lyrics with an earthy backdrop. “Slavery Days” and “To Live” are a few of the many hits that have been quietly spinning the heads of the international dance scene and have now made it to Pittsburgh.

Soy Sos and Christiane D want to make this clear: This is not techno. This has no control. There is no thumping, but rather sensual and transporting rhythms.

Christiane D said that music now in the year 2002 is “at a standstill. I would be in my car [listening to music] and be just sitting. Music needs to transport us … beyond the walls, beyond the club.” OK, this is good stuff.

Three Generations Walking is not house music, but it is deeper, “more sensual,” with definite ethnic undertones. “You might hear reggae roots, Haitian, Afro Cuban, salsa, jazz, soul, deep house all blended into something that I feel is a step to the left from the norm,” MLK said.

Christiane D expects the scene tonight to attract “the most beautiful people in Pittsburgh, dancing … like a water creature where the music doesn’t tell [them] what to do.”

Head over to the Brew House tonight for a night of dancing like a sea creature, a night of being high without a drug, a night of dancing, escaping, forgetting what exists outside of the walls – just listening to Three Generations Walking and its beautiful reality.