female bureau of investigation

"Taking over the intelligent funk scene is Sasha Sumner, a singer/saxophonist and her band Female Bureau of Investigation. Check them out!"
-Cups Magazine Editor, Issue #86 - Cups Magazine

Female Bureau of Investigation band incorporates farcical performance.

Bitches with Switches is a series of comedic skits involving strong women interacting with male political leaders.

International issues are refocused in a humorous and personalised way, often concluding with a well deserved flogging. The role of the dominatrix-inspectress is to poke fun at the current power-play that is feeding our international debate and to present a different, though farcical, perspective. 'Bitches with Switches' is a spectacle of overt dominance and submission rooted in political satire. The content investigates on a personal/local level as well as an international one.

-G.G., editor
- The Greenline Newspaper, Brooklyn

Female Bureau Of Investigation is the creation of Sasha Sumner, who sings, plays sax and writes the band's material.

The band is back with their second album, Internal Affairs, mixing elements of Jazz, Blues, Rock, Reggae and Funk.

Internal Affairs opens with Gotta Let Go, a message to a suitor to get over past loves and get in the moment. The quasi-experimental jazz feel makes Gotta Let Go feel like something of a Cabaret piece. Sumner's voice may remind readers of Monica Attell but with perhaps a slightly more lyric quality.

-Wildy of Wildy's World
- Wildy's World