Jazz Articles about lePercolateur

lePercolateur: Pop Manouche

by Dan Bilawsky
July 26, 2013

Something different and exciting is brewing on lePercolateur's Pop Manouche. This Chicago-based, Hot Club-indebted outfit finds a way to blend the sonic sensibilities of Django Reinhardt's famed band into an alt- pop/alt-folk/alt-instrumental format on their debut album, creating something unique in the process; it's as if songstress Sam Phillips, the beyond-category Pink Martini, indie folk band Hem, Reinhardt, and a few other unlikely collaborators got together to make some music. The core instrumentation--violin, multiple guitars and bass--immediately ...