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"One Day His Axe Fell Into Honey" from New Deli
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"A Crack in the Clouds" from New Deli
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Album Review

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TriBeCaStan
New Deli
(EverGreene Music)

You won't find TriBeCaStan on a world map, and that's appropriate. After all, from a musical stanpoint, the band is a world map, with project leaders Jeff Greene and John Kruth drawing inspiration from a globe's worth of sonic styles. As such, New Deli is, by its very nature, a mixed bag, but one whose overall message of cultural inclusiveness comes through loud and clear. The instrumentation is a hodgepodge-no surprise given that Kruth is adept at everything from the mandocello and the royal benju to the harmonica and the zither, while Greene has mastered the Afghan rehab, the kanun, the marimbuela and the six-string ukele. But that doesn't mean the tunes are the equivalent of a food fight in an open market. "Bed Bugs" is representative of the package as a whole from a structural standpoint, in that the arrangement laid atop percolating polyrhythms keeps the focuso on bright melodies and tight transitions with relatively few spaces left open for extended improvisation. The result is cheery and dance-able, if soemwhat lacking in surprises. 01/12/12 >> go there
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