From Wedding Gigs to Pop-Funk, Zhenyok Chem Brat Bring Of Your Touch to a New Audience
From Wedding Gigs to Pop-Funk, Zhenyok Chem Brat Bring Of Your Touch to a New Audience
An American Duo’s 2024 Pop-Funk Single, Made with Session Players From Around the World
Of Your Touch came out on 20 September 2024 from Zhenyok Chem Brat, a pop and funk duo. The pair are based in Napa, United States. It runs two minutes and 45 seconds. The thing worth noting is who made it: two live-circuit veterans, with session players from around the world.
Zhenyok Chem Brat’s single is in the playlist below, with more on the duo’s artist profile. Of Your Touch reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Give it a spin, then read on for the road that led to it.
Before Of Your Touch, Zhenyok Chem Brat Lived on Stages, Dance Floors and Festival Bills
The duo is the DJ and producer Zhenyok, also known as DJZ, and Chango on drums. Between them they count more than 100 bands and thousands of live shows, plus television and radio work.
So that history shows in the day jobs. Zhenyok is a working event and wedding DJ who also runs a festival, Changolands.
Chango keeps a separate live life too. Across 2022 and 2023 the drummer played around Northern California with the Rockbusters and the Deadlies. Those dates ran from Porchfest to the Sonoma County Fair and a leukemia benefit show.
As Zhenyok Chem Brat, the two played afterparty sets in May 2023 and streamed a live set on Mixcloud that April. Their stated aim is plain: music that leaves people feeling good. Too much music sells the negative, they say, so they chose the other side.
Zhenyok Chem Brat Cut Of Your Touch at Home With Players From Around the World
So the single started from a live band’s instincts, built in a home studio. Zhenyok, credited as Jeffrey Lee Craft, wrote the song and produced it.
But the players came in from elsewhere. Anthony Sylvester plays electric guitar, Luca Giachi plays bass and Chris Commiso plays keyboards. Giachi also gets a special mention in the video notes. Out of the hundreds of bass players the duo has worked with, he is named a favourite.
Above all, the vocals carry the story. The official video bills the song as featuring Elizabeth Red and Molly, with soul-leaning singing at the front. The subject is a woman looking back on a relationship, from its first spark to its end.
Of Your Touch Arrived With a Radio Edit, a Video and Early Blog Coverage
The style is commercial pop with funk and groove underneath. Still, the duo names Prince and Katy Perry among its influences on this one, and both make sense for a short, hook-first record. A radio edit arrived on the same day, and so did the official video, which has passed 22,800 views. On screen it pairs Elizabeth Red’s performance with Zhenyok in bright, saturated colour. So the duo’s two sides, singer-led pop and DJ showmanship, share the frame.
Coverage came fast. Teethsound wrote it up within days of release. It was one of several blogs that picked it up in the first month.
Where Zhenyok Chem Brat Take Of Your Touch Next, Two Years After Release
Together, those two influences explain where the single can travel.
Prince is the funk side. His Kiss came out in February 1986 as the lead single from Parade. Then it held the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks. It proved how much a lean funk arrangement can do in a short song. That is also the space Of Your Touch works in.
Katy Perry, by contrast, is the pop side. Her disco-influenced album Teenage Dream, from 2010, is the only album by a woman to produce five US number-one singles. That polish over a dance-floor groove is the target the duo aims at here.
That positive streak is part of the plan as well. The duo’s website opens on a mission to put more positivity into the world through music. Meanwhile its bio calls the result positive music that empowers.
So the next step is a second life for the record. That means putting a two-year-old single in front of curators and listeners who missed it. The duo’s live base is still there too, in wedding dance floors, festival stages and Changolands.
That is the trajectory in short. Years of other people’s parties and other people’s bands led to a home studio and a single made by hand. Of Your Touch is where those two lives meet.
MusicDrops.News curator team: “Two minutes and 45 seconds of pop-funk from people who have played thousands of shows. It belongs on a playlist built for the first dance and the after-party alike.”
Stream Of Your Touch on Apple Music, and find the rest of the duo’s catalogue on the Spotify artist page and on Apple Music. Follow Zhenyok Chem Brat on Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook and YouTube, or visit the duo’s official website.
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