Who is The Soulcatcher? The figure without a face

Who is The Soulcatcher?

The Soulcatcher is one of the voices of Pocket Funk Collective. For me he is less a person than a musical soul. He stands for a time when music brought people together, no matter who they were or where they came from.

His music lives where funk, disco and soul meet: a round bass, rhythm guitars, warm keys, and a groove that asks nothing of you except that you move.

Why does he never show his face?

His face stays hidden because this is not about the person behind the music. It is about the feeling in front of it. A face would pull the attention to the wrong place. The hood keeps it where it belongs: on the song.

What does it mean to catch a soul?

When I talk about catching souls, I mean those rare moments when a bassline, a voice or a groove lifts you out of your day for a few minutes. You know them. The room changes, your shoulders drop, and for the length of a song nothing else matters.

Those are the moments I want to hold on to. Every song by The Soulcatcher is an attempt to catch one of them.