Spellbound Pumps It Up-The funk and Latin groove band plays Suzy’s on Saturday
Bobby Moon, left, and Paul “Pablo” Thomas of SpellboundGLORIA PLASCENCIA, CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER The years get away from us, don’t they? Paul “Pablo” Thomas and Bobby Moon started writing and playing music together some 30 years ago when both were living “on the hill” and attending Palos Verdes High. At first there was the group Life After Death, and then later, at least by 1996, the two friends formed their own band, Spellbound, and released a self-titled CD on their own Selfish Recordings label. In the years since – I’ll leave it to you to count how many – Thomas and Moon have released another dozen or so albums, mostly comprised of danceable funk and Latin grooves, with a heavy dose of R&B and Afro-Caribbean influences – all the more intriguing since this is an Asian and a Caucasian growing up far from the urban jungle or some sugarcane plantation. Anyway, so as to cut to the chase, Spellbound performs what Thomas describes as a celebratory-type music, and which others might just want to call party music, this Saturday night at Suzy’s in Hermosa Beach. An unlikely calling Paul Thomas had been in the high school jazz band and marching band, plus he played guitar and keyboards…
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