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The Stinkfoot Orchestra
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The Stinkfoot Orchestra is a 14-piece tribute to Frank Zappa from San Jose, CA which is fronted by Zappa alumni (alternately, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ray White and Ike Willis). Boasting a 6-piece horn section, tuned percussion and 5 vocalists, SFO delivers the intricacies and eccentricities of Frank’s music with power and precision – all the while remaining true to the Maestro’s sardonic wit and proclivity to bring comedic entertainment value to the stage with every performance. Despite their relatively short existence (the band played their first show in the fall of 2021), the ensemble has managed to garner world-wide attention and has been touring up and down the West Coast building a faithful following since the summer of 2022
Alan Hall: Heroes, Saints and Clowns
by Chris M. Slawecki
Ratatet, the sextet led by drummer Alan Hall, doesn't seem to quite fit into a musical box of any style or shape. One of the San Francisco Bay area's most respected musical performers and educators, Hall assembled this uniquely constructed ensemble from fragments of previous engagements: He previously played in a trio called Electreo with Paul ...
Heartbeats Full of Soul
by Chris M. Slawecki
Nicola Conte & Spiritual Galaxy Let Your Light Shine On MPS 2018 One of the best parts of Let Your Light Shine On is how it plucks out musical threads from throughout the galaxy (more on that later) and knits them together into truly groovy, soulful cloth. But ...
Slivovitz: Liver
by Chris M. Slawecki
Slivovitz, and especially this live set, are not for the musical faint of heart. As a live recording, LiveR is “live-r" than most. Recorded in Milan in May 2016, it explodes from their native Italy into your senses with a colorful and frantic sound, a wailing mongrel child that fiercely claims such shared, diverse ...
From Choro to Chaos
by Chris M. Slawecki
Berkeley Choro Ensemble The View from Here Self-Produced 2017 Like its organic natural wonders, the music of Brazil seems to flourish in different forms and styles of beauty. But much of its music has grown from the root of choro: Born in the mid-to late-1800s from the joining ...
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