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Moonshine

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Dave Douglas

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2007
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Tracks

Dog Star; Moonshine; Married Life; Silent Stars; Scopes; Flood Plane; Kitten; Tough.

Personnel

Additional Personnel / Information

Dave Douglas, trumpet Marcus Strickland, saxophones Adam Benjamin, keyboards Brad Jones, bass Gene Lake, drums DJ Olive, turntables

Album Description

Moonshine, by trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas with his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory. The evolutionary, revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas’ avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer Gene Lake and bassist Brad Jones, the Sun-Ra-esque sonics of Adam Benjamin who plays a highly modulated Fender Rhodes and the post-post blowing of the front line featuring Douglas and saxophonist Marcus Strickland. But what puts this one over the top is the true integration of a DJ, in this case DJ Olive, into the constantly shifting improvisations of a cutting edge band. Rolling Stone called Keystone’s 2005′s self titled album, “a modernist requiem.” Moonshine takes it a step further: a modernist recipe for the future sound of electronics, jazz, and new composition.