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friend that passed and a man he met in Oakland. “The song is a realization that because all these people have the answers,” Basi says, “because I came from them, because I know them, I also have the answers.” Basi makes music based on his poetry, inspired by spoken-word and musicians such as Domino. “It’s just trying to fuse those specific sounds that people know so well—D’Angelo, John Legend, Frank Ocean—and using it with … the way that my voice works and the way that I play piano,” he says. Basi Vibe has resting rest face. A jazz piano major at Sonoma State, Basi returned to Sacramento in desperate need of a change of pace. He’s focused on art since. Somnus is the sluggish god of sleep. In Ovid’s poem “I started to realize that I was just kind of wasting Metamorphoses, the Greco-Roman couch potato away,” he says. “I had my mind focused on the lounges on a soft black chair, relaxed by dreams, wrong things over there.” dead silence and twilight from his cave in the Once in Sac, He “weaseled” his way in to Underworld. the music scene, he says. Somnus is also Basi Vibe’s awaken“Like what does it take for ing record. Coming out of a creative somebody to infiltrate an art “It’s just trying lull, the Sacramento R&B poet scene, you know?” Basi says. and musician released his first “My formula was just to say to fuse those specific album in April, named after yes to everything and step sounds that people know the immovable deity. out of my comfort zone.” “As an artist, I felt like so well—D’Angelo, John Attending events and I was moving lethargically networking worked. Now Legend, Frank Ocean—and through life,” Basi says, “… Basi draws large crowds using it with … the way that and here we are now, and I to his bar sets, including am awake.” his “Vibe W/” sessions at my voice works and the way Basi debuted the sixHighwater, which present that I play piano.” song EP live at Highwater soul and cold funk every in Midtown on April 12. With second Friday. Basi Vibe moody red lighting and instrumenThe soft-spoken pianist is the talists behind him, he sang to a bar god of chill onstage. But when it filled wall-to-wall with patrons who knew comes his dreams, he’s restless. the words, bobbing along to his chill R&B and “When I go do my thing, I’m gonna be ruthatmospheric beats. less about it,” Basi says. “And this is kinda how I see “I need you to quit all your playing, come and get it, but it’s all for the sake of the thing that I hold very some lovin’ baby, come and get some lovin’ baby,” dear. And that’s the art.” Ω he says in “Palm Trees,” fitting for a cruise down Pacific Coast Highway. Check out basi Vibe Friday, May 10 at Concerts In the Park. souls of Mischief “Answers,” a lo-fi interlude under a minute, is and the Philharmonik also perform. no cover. show starts at 5pm. 910 I st. Basi’s favorite track. A tribute to his biggest inspiralisten to somnus: basivibe.bandcamp.com/album/somnus. tions, he shouts out to his parents, grandparents, a