Concert Review: Cafuné Can Do It!

Brooklyn is one of the most loyal crowds you will ever meet. 100% This is especially true for bands that have found their origins in its scene. Cafuné´s Elsewhere show felt more like a celebration than an actual concert. I am surprised it did not end in a parade with a ¨You Can Do It¨ banner splashed across the crowd.

The Brooklyn Music Scene is so unique because people where it like a mask; as if the sounds and songs of a location could build an identity. For the Cafuné Crowd, BK was a space for the outcasts: from Hip Hop to now Synth Pop. It was the location for people that either emotionally or systemically felt cut off, and need a dream to vent their reality to, which is the essence of Cafuné´s music. They are sprightly and sparkly dances with reviving motivations. They are the parts of us that tell us: get back up, listen to some Beyonce, and try again….. because this time can be different. 

Noah Yoo and Sedona Schat were like the chillest, hype people, which feels very much BK Pop, it is a blend of our desire to rave at a club and our income requirements to Netflix, Chill, and Sit This One Out. You may laugh, but, in BK, going out is a very public affront to one’s personal economy. I, literally, at that show heard someone order two 12 dollar beers while discussing their fears of rent payments. That blend of not knowing what tomorrow will bring, but hoping so much that it is not worse that you just live in the present, out of fear, felt like the core of Schat´s quite ethereal voice. 

Schat´s vocality blended with Yoo´s instrumentation to create a heavenly, sonic space for the simultaneously lost and found. That young woman may have been buying pricey beers on her rent due, but she also understood that in a world that over charges you just for existing, might as well make it do so for you living. She was living it up, and Cafuné said, ¨You can do it!¨