Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Proto-Synthesis

Despite being a founding member of Parliament/Funkadelic and later an integral member of the Talking Heads, Bernie Worrell is hardly a household name. But his pioneering synthesizer explorations have influenced generations of artists across genre boundaries — to wit, his riffs are among the most sampled in the entirety of hip-hop. This Sunday, December 30, the Bernie Worrell Orchestra headlines a show at Club Metronome with locals Funkwagon, Serotheft and A2VT.