the Heard Eye

Trumpeter/vocalist PAUL SCHNEIDER and Guitarist HANNES DE KASSIAN began playing jazz and funk together in the Summer of 2018, gigging steadily at clubs, bars and wineries in Sonoma and Marin Counties in the North Bay Area of California. Like people everywhere, their progress was halted by the Covid pandemic in 2020. PAUL dealt with this by purchasing a digital recording set-up and he began recording songs. He decided to call this project “the Heard Eye”, a pun on the famous concept of Third Eye awareness, and also an implied combination of sensory perceptions leading in a new direction. He enlisted HANNES on guitar, and with a crew of various other musicians all working remotely, they recorded a full album. That album is “FUNKALYPSE”, released in Summer 2023. Tracks from the album quickly began racking up streams on Spotify and other streaming services and made the charts on digital radio. They decided to put a live band together, where they present the songs from the album as well as new material and improvisational journeys through time and space. The Heard Eye . Bringin’ on the Funkalypse!