Jazz Articles about Mambo Mantis

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Album Review

Mambo Mantis: Everybody Knows Something

Read "Everybody Knows Something" reviewed by Ernest Barteldes

by Ernest Barteldes
July 8, 2006

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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Album Review

Mambo Mantis: The Ecstasy of Perfect Recognition

Read "The Ecstasy of Perfect Recognition" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
May 29, 2005

From the potent opening cut of The Ecstasy of Perfect Recognition, it's clear that Mambo Mantis stands outside of any conventional definition. “Life On Mars, with its blistering, pardon, extreme guitar by Will Redmond blazing above drummer Ray Sage's thrashing, brings to mind the intense duet of John Coltrane and Rashied Ali on Interstellar Space (which actually featured a cut entitled “Mars ).The songs collected here are short, quick, effective punches to the gut. “Sox 1 is a ...