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Mambo Mantis: Everybody Knows Something
by Ernest Barteldes
Do not let the word “mambo" in this band's name fool you. There is nothing of the famed Cuban genre on this album, recorded live at the Bowery Poetry Club and ABC No Rio. The group's sound is experimental as it gets--with surprising neurotic sounds and hard rock influences--as heard on the introduction to “According to Type and “Minute Openings. On the opening track, “Royal Mambo, reedman Blaise Siwula brings a frontal attack that sounds as if ...
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