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Acid Brass: Voodoo Ray- on brass band instruments!

Of course I'd loved it even more if it'd been done in the style of mad oompah balkan brass bands... :cool: Could someone commission Fanfare Giocarlia(sp?) to cover this in a wild gypsy tuba freakout, please? :D
 
theres a few unexpected covers of dance music projects out there...im trying to remember the names. One i can remember is Maxence Cyrin, who does piano versions - I love this version of Sueno Latino (e2-E4)
 
- Wow! Excellent, ska invita :D

Sirena said:
I think what you are after, young sir, is the Hackney Colliery Band....

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Sirena,I'm so chuffed that you thought I was male... :D and that's a great band and a great tune! :cool::thumbs: (*Does anyone know where to find more bands/tunes like that? That's precisely the kind of stuff I've been trying to find... :) )
 
By the way, for years now I've been looking for a french Canadian[i think? made in Quebec but probably narrated in english, although I don't remember now] TV documentary about Louisiana brass bands, it showed a lot of young people playing in the brass bands and the culture around it, lots of great music too... If somebody know what it's called and where to find it, I'd love to watch it again...
 
John Barry did some great brass arrangements too, although there's loads of strings I think the brassy bits always added a bit of grit and darkness and oomph for balance which works really well:

 
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- Wow! Excellent, ska invita :D

Sirena,I'm so chuffed that you thought I was male... :D and that's a great band and a great tune! :cool::thumbs: (*Does anyone know where to find more bands/tunes like that? That's precisely the kind of stuff I've been trying to find... :) )
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The Hackney Colliery Band just tickles me because the name sounds so genuine and yet (as we know....) there are no collieries in Hackney!!! We just started doing some work with the band and the label (Wah Wah 45) which is a cool label.

I think you ought to check out the whole Electro-Swing thing that's going on at the moment, where they take 20s,30s and 40s jazz tunes and put dance-floor stuff underneath. There's a big new club night in Brixton on Satuday nights at Plan B, run by a man call Chris Tofu. Here's a facebook link: I don't know if it'll work. Tonight's is already sold out...
https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10152368778688296&set=gm.1527769100782607&type=1&theater
 
DaveCinzano said:
Suspect that wouldn't require much arm-twisting :D
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Perhaps somebody ought to film the session aswell :D ;)

I read an interview somewhere where some musician said that New Orleans session players had a certain down to earth modesty about them- They famously refuse to show off with needlessly complicated/wanky solos and so on, it's the rhythm and danceability and the whole gig experience which is focused on, not the 'stars'!

The most famous result of this approach is the hauntingly eerie solo trombone(?i think it is?) line of Dr. John's "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"... the producers had tried and tried to coax the trombonist into a more jazzy/overwrought solo, but he refused and played it down to the bone, with fantastic results... I often start to hum or sing those melody lines without remembering where it's from, it's such a different sound... :cool:



Sirena - ta, that sounds really interesting... Personally I'm probably a bit too old for it, but the energy and vitality of such mash-up crossover genres is admirable :)
 
I was sat outside a cafe in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere in France one Summer and this lot appeared outside and did this kinda thing before disappearing again. Very cool.

 
I also once accidentally came across a Banda festival/competition in deepest Narcolandia (Michoacan, Mexico)

Something a bit like this...

 
maya said:
Perhaps somebody ought to film the session aswell :D ;)

I read an interview somewhere where some musician said that New Orleans session players had a certain down to earth modesty about them- They famously refuse to show off with needlessly complicated/wanky solos and so on, it's the rhythm and danceability and the whole gig experience which is focused on, not the 'stars'!

The most famous result of this approach is the hauntingly eerie solo trombone(?i think it is?) line of Dr. John's "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"... the producers had tried and tried to coax the trombonist into a more jazzy/overwrought solo, but he refused and played it down to the bone, with fantastic results... I often start to hum or sing those melody lines without remembering where it's from, it's such a different sound... :cool:



Sirena - ta, that sounds really interesting... Personally I'm probably a bit too old for it, but the energy and vitality of such mash-up crossover genres is admirable :)
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When we did the history of early jazz thread last year one factoid that came up was that New Orleans came to be flooded with dead cheep brass instruments in the late 1800s (normaly a very expensive instrument), as a result of decomissioning after the...war with Mexico? I think that was it... I'll look it up later. Anyway, a long ongoing war finished, and all the military brass insturments ended up in junk shops in New Orleans, and so New Orleans brass band culture was born - and continues to this day.

Ive found a nice bit this morning: New Orleans brass band who just do covers of Daft Punk called Brasftt Punk...sounds a bit shit and gimicky? Maybe, but the music is genuinely really good :cool::

https://soundcloud.com/iamjasonalexander-1/sets/the-madd-wikkids-brassft-punk

Theres also Hot 8 who play a lot of festivals in the UK i get the impression
 
chilango said:
I was sat outside a cafe in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere in France one Summer and this lot appeared outside and did this kinda thing before disappearing again. Very cool.

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The balkan brass band culture is pretty kick-ass too

 
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