Cosmic jazz-funk for the movers, the dreamers, and the late-night wanderers

Formed in Brighton by a group of friends who bonded over jazz, funk, rave culture and the DIY spirit, they’ve built a sound that’s proudly hard to pin down — part jazz ensemble, part dance act, part psychedelic groove experiment. There are nods to spiritual jazz and Afrobeat, flashes of broken-beat and electronic energy, and a big emphasis on rhythm that keeps everything moving forward. It’s music that shapeshifts: one minute you’re head-nodding to a deep pocket, the next you’re lifted into something spacious and cinematic, then you’re back in the thick of it with a riff that hits like a grin.

What really sets Ebi Soda apart is the live experience. They play with the intensity of a club set — building, releasing, pushing the tempo, pulling you in — but with the electricity of real instruments and the kind of onstage communication that feels like you’re watching a living organism think out loud. It’s joyful, it’s unpredictable, and it’s made for people who like their dancing with a side of “wait, what just happened?”

At Good Vibrations Society, this is going to feel like stumbling on a secret portal: a band soundtracking the liminal hours, when the trees go dark around the edges and the crowd gets a little looser, a little freer. Expect a set that pulls in the jazz heads, the ravers, and everyone in between — and leaves you walking away with that rare feeling of having witnessed something truly alive.