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Reptet: Chicken or Beef?
ByA Seattle sextet, Reptet mixes it all up and draws from a variety of styles including jazz, funk, world, Latin, ska, avant-garde, Zappa and silliness. This, their second CD, uses the '70s with its funky attitude, punky-ska irreverence and ultra cool LP-like packaging as something of a touchstone, while answering the age-old limited option reception question Chicken or Beef?. The answer is, of course, "I'll have both please, with pork BBQ, fish and veal as well." No veggie option here.
John Ewing plays drums and assorted other things and he with bassist Tim Carey are stellar in providing not only a solid rhythmic floor but in setting direction to what could have easily developed into total silliness. But this is really good music. Samantha Boshnack plays trumpet and writes most of it and she can scream or play it sweet. She can go from Latin to Jamaican to her own thing without catching her breath. Chris Credit is on all sorts of saxophones and Nelson Bell's t-bone and tubas with Izaak Mills' tenor sax make for incredibly tight and swinging horn playing. If you need more Reptetand who wouldn'ttheir 7" vinyl single (very red vinyl in fact, with MP3s available for download with code), "Agendacide b/w Snow Leopard X 3," includes organist Wayne Horvitz and prepared guitarist Mark Oi. It looks so neat on my turntable and sounds even better. Reptet=horns + bass + drums + attitude.
Track Listing
CD: Danger Notes; Reptet Score!; EltiT; Eve of Thrieve; Chicken or Beef?; That's Chicken or Beef; Gwand Wabbit; Fish Market; Swanni; Kil the Air; Go Bears. Vinyl Single: Agendacide; Snow Leopard X 3.
Personnel
Reptet
variousJohn Ewing: drums, percussion bull moose call, vocals; Samantha Boshnack: trumpet, flugelhorn, slide trumpet, vocals; Chris Credit: baritone, alto and tenor saxophones, vocals; Tim Carey: upright and electric bass, baritone guitar, vocals; Nelson Bell: trombone, tuba, euphonium, conch shell, vocals; Izaak Mills: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, percussion, bull moose call, vocals) with guests: Lalo Bello: percussion, Mark Oi: guitar; Tobi Stone: clarinet; Clinton Fearon: frog, vocals; Eyvind Kang: viola; Lori Goldston: cello; Paris Hurley: violin, Maeg O'Donoghue-Williams, Sari Breznau, Kevin Hinshaw, and Scott Adams: additional vocals, Wayne Horvitz: Hammond C3 organ (Vinyl Single).
Album information
Title: Chicken or Beef? | Year Released: 2010 | Record Label: Monktail Records