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Muzikifan, Artist Review >>
New Orleans style brass band music with a twist. Founded in Portland, Oregon in 2003 the band is a circus-like spectacle with stilt-walkers, puppeteers, fire-eaters & clowns and the music a lively mix of traditional New Orleans with Fela, Fleetwood Mac, and other Looney Tunes -- in short all the staples of a hip high school band. It's all brass and drums with the addition of electric bass. There's 13 brass instruments and 11 percussion, so it's a big sound, but the disc is clear as a bell so you hear baritone sax or trumpet soloing against the tight sheen of sound. The compositions are mostly original, with the old standby Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse," and a cover of "Simplon cocek," a traditional Balkan piece that was the lead track on Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band's Rounder CD "No Strings Attached." Nino Rota looms large in "Contada Ridiculata" which quotes some familiar Fellini-esque motifs. "Nightmarika" riffs off Leonard Bernstein's "America" attaining a nightmarish grandeur. "Freestyle for Miles" is a pastiche of some Miles grooves with sharp soloing. 12/01/09 >> go there
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