The Motet - 'The Fountain' ::: Second Story Garage

The band The Motet perform their song “The Fountain” in this music video recorded in the SecondStoryGarage.com studio inside the Daily Camera newsroom in Boulder, Colorado.
The Motet has been around for 16 years, but it seems as if they’re just bursting onto the scene. The Boulder funk masters recently released their seventh album. They self-titled it because, for the first time, they wrote it collaboratively and, they say, “The group has finally become what it has striven to be throughout its existence.”
The band performed a triumphant set at a sold-out Red Rocks in July, opening for jam superstars Umphrey’s McGee, and The Motet’s popularity is growing in other cities around the country.
The band is led by drummer Dave Watts, and its sound is led by funky beats. Bassist Garrett Sayers is becoming the Victor Wooten of the Front Range - he makes even non-bass players in the audience go “Wow!” And when he’s not playing with The Motet, Sayers leads his own band, the Garrett Sayers Trio. Keyboardist Joey Porter also leads his own band, Vital Organ. His far-out licks add groovy colors to The Motet’s soundscape. Guitarist Ryan Jalbert’s rhythm playing is the glue that holds it all together. Gabe Mervine and Matt Pitts, on trumpet and tenor sax, give a hair-raising lift to The Motet experience, and the charismatic and soulful vocals of Jans Ingber are the embodiment of the musical whole.
In late October, The Motet starts a four-night Front Range run that includes its famed annual Halloween shows. Catch the “Mixtape 1975”-themed show at the Aggie Theatre in Fort Collins on Oct. 29, at the Boulder Theater on Oct. 30-31 and the Ogden Theater in Denver on Nov. 1.
In the Garage the band played “The Fountain” and “Keep On Don’t Stoppin’,” then Dave and Jans talked with Quentin and revealed some details about “Mixtape 1975.”
The band The Motet perform their song “The Fountain” in this music video recorded in the SecondStoryGarage.com studio inside the Daily Camera newsroom in Boulder, Colorado: secondstorygara...
The band The Motet perform their song “Keep On Don’t Stoppin’,” in this music video recorded in the SecondStoryGarage.com studio inside the Daily Camera newsroom in Boulder, Colorado: secondstorygara...
Dave Watts and Jans Ingber from the band The Motet chat with SecondStoryGarage.com host Quentin Young in this interview recorded in our studio inside the Daily Camera newsroom in Boulder, Colorado: secondstorygara...
What they brought us: A Motet hat.
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[@DntBuyTheHype]

Instant fan right here. Wow!

[@MatthewA2010]

Superlative sound and incredible groove.

[@chrismanson3211]

Got that groovy 70's flaring bass with horns and congos. I can't wait to hear you guys live in Atlanta in June.

[@jt2112able]

A party for the ears!!!

[@wmhaynes5632]

Excellent!!! Love these guys!!

[@shoechew]

This is awesome music.

[@Dyshof]

as funky as can be

[@AnthonyLeaton]

Seriously good.... and better still everyone was jamming the fun. The passion shines through. Well done... keep it up!

[@BuddyCoopers]

Great band Thanks Dave Watts

[@KhalDrogo76]

goddamn this is funky!

[@maryradford3488]

yea!

[@fluke9637]

They were on JamCruise 15 last week, funky as hell! one of my favorite shows on the boat too they killed it...

[@rickram88]

YES! Been a long time since I've heard y'all play!

[@DaleandtheZDubs]

The Motet is fire...would love some more JUNO WHAT in our livvvveeeeeessssss as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@letMeSayThatInIrish]

Love it!

[@bombinozag]

wak wak ! shut up ! let the show go on ! super tunes nice vibes ! TKX

[@dvxmudtires]

Well played sirs

[@goldenrodhockey]

fuck yes

[@mlevy123]

*funk yes

[@SonTannerProductions]

You guys should collab and do the entire album. video/audio series would be cool

[@shufaroots]

Is this a different bass player than on the album ? this version is so GOOD!

[@harrycrab8725]

Wahka-chicka-Wahka-chicka

[@shoechew]

I love that there are no vocals. Ironic, given the name. Thanks for this.

[@knife_wife]

Can't handle the funk. lawdy

[@3lc0y0t3]

Awesome band. What time signature is this? (illiterate music lover here)

[@joelanderson839]

I know this comment is 2 years old but nobody ever chimed in, so I'm gonna: as far as I can tell, it's all 4/4. I know that section around 1:40 doesn't seem straight, but it's deceitful. You can count the whole thing in 4/4, they're just syncopating around the down beats.

[@katlabine7840]

It tickles me to see a SOAP sticker!

[@abstractina2]

I feel like I’m watching 70’s porn lol brown chicken brown cow 😂

[@paulwhiting1731]

Very well played polite funk. Needs a bit more soul perhaps,

[@CommodoreBlubbers]

This isnt even a motet. IM FURIOUS jk

[@highspacefox]

I had to look up what that was, I bet Renaissance people would get down to this funk!

[@jacobinternet8877]

these people also need better taste in clothing

[@jacobinternet8877]

kinda groovy with nice players but lacks serious musical statements besides the usual funky rhytms - where is the originality? the melody? where is that magic feeling that takes this from background porn music to something that you'd really wanna listen to?

[@duhcohtuh1500]

Got dayum.