On September 20, students, teachers, and citizens attended the Children’s Climate Strike at Coffey Park in Red Hook, Brooklyn, organized by Resilient Red Hook, a committee dedicated to seeking local solutions to the global climate crisis. Together with millions of like-minded people worldwide, attendees expressed their concerns through speeches, poems, and music, including a rousing rendition of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
Performing at the event was the talented teenage band Control The Sound. The group plays funk, hip-hop, rock, jazz, and blues. They perform originals and covers citing Kendrick Lamar, Vulfpeck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Brown, and the Rolling Stones as influences. Astoundingly, the band members are only 15 years old.
The band is fronted by cousins Elijah Frechtman on guitar and vocals and Audrey Frechtman on bass and vocals. They are backed by drummer Carter Nyhan and trumpeter Kai Blanchard. Elijah plays funky, chunky chords and is a strong soloist while Audrey digs deep into low end grooves. Both cousins really know how to rap with impressive rhymes and flow.
Control The Sound’s talent has not gone unnoticed. They have opened for the Roots at Brooklyn Bowl and have performed at venues large and small including Barbés, Brooklyn Steel, Rockwood Music Hall, the Shrine, and many others throughout New York. They will be performing with Birds in the Boneyard on November 30 at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg.
For more information on the band, including mp3s and videos, see their website: www.controlthesound.net
