Artists Making a Difference in our Community and Globally

How do you contribute to our community through music? Our esteemed guest on this week’s show, Chen Lo, and Asante Amin, of Soul Science Lab does. They are the future of our music, whether that is Hip-Hop or Jazz. Performing at Lincoln Center, the Apollo, or Carnegie Hall, Japan, etc. they continuously lean forward.

Chen Lo and Asante Amin are Bed-Stuy-based musicians, part of a production company called Soul Science Lab that creates futuristic music that speaks to contemporary themes rooted in an African past.

In other words, and to put it more simply, they’re musicians on a mission.

“We look at Africa in terms of its influence musically,” says Amin. “We’re ‘African Futurists,’ because Africa is the future. We’re into that whole notion, and so we like to depict that musically as much as we can.”

About Soul Science Lab

Soul Science Lab (SSL) is a music production company with an empowering approach to self-expression formed by artist, educator and creative director, Chen Lo, and multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Asante’ Amin. SSL’s current projects include: the duo's debut album, Plan for Paradise; 10 'Trane tribute to the life and music of John Coltane; Soundtrack ’63, a multi-media music production that explores the Civil Rights Movement through images, video, jazz, hip-hop, soul music and poetry; Soul Science Academy kids music and the upcoming visual album, Make a Joyful Noize. With collective credits including work with Common, Erykah Badu, KRS-ONE, A Tribe Called Quest and the legendary Last Poets, Soul Science Lab is a multifaceted vision of the Afro future. Visit soulsciencelab.com for more details.