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Critters Buggin: Stampede

by Chris May
December 27, 2004

Warning! This isn't jazz. Not according to the rule book anyway. (So if you're reading, Stanley, better hit the back button now.) According to Critters Buggin, Stampede --the first album from the Seattle-based quartet in five years--is a mix of “jazz, dub, funk, punk and electronic junk."

Verily, it is all those things and not forgetting the junk: Stampede sounds like it was recorded in a howling blizzard of the finest uncut Peruvian flake, with a large side ...

Critters Buggin': Stampede

by John Kelman
September 12, 2004

Critters Buggin', the hardcore Seattle-based quartet featuring percussionist Mike Dillon and reedman/multi-instrumentalist Skerik (last heard together on Garage a Trois' '03 release Emphasizer ), along with drummer/multi-instrumentalist Matt Chamberlain and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Brad Houser, were last seen five years ago on Amoeba , an album of loose grooves, ambient sounds and wild moments of risk. With their latest record, Stampede , little has changed, or hasn't it?

Well, there's no question that the group has come up with a vibrant new ...

NYE with Critters Buggin and Garaj Mahal

Source: JamBase
December 16, 2008

New Year's Eve Ball with Critters Buggin, Garaj Mahal & DJ FunkFuzz 12/31/08 Olympia, WA's Historic Capitol Theatre

Critters Buggin Featuring Critters Buggin and Garaj Mahal, two of the West Coast's most progressive and talented bands, as well as artwork from Cascadia's most talented artists, food from the area's top chefs and with Olympia's Historic Capitol Theatre as the setting, the 1st Annual Olympia New Year's Eve Ball is the Northwest's premier NYE show to attend. Artists from ...
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Critters Buggin Tour in Support of Stampede

Source: All About Jazz
September 8, 2004

It has been five years since the freakishly boundary-pushing Seattle quartet, Critters Buggin, have convened together on record, on stage, or anywhere for that matter. Stampede, the bands new album out on Ropeadope records, is scheduled to hits streets on September 7 with a full-blown Critters Buggin U.S. tour following in its footsteps. So how does a band like Critter Buggin actually have time to record an album? The members, you see, are busy- bodies who play with everyone and ...
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Critters Buggin Out on the Road with Bachir & Mustapha Attar of the Master Musicians of Jajouka

Source: All About Jazz

Bachir Attar is the leader of the ancient founding family of Trance from the village of Jajouka in Morocco. He and his youngest brother Mustapha are masters of the gimbre, rhaita, drums and lira and possess the healing Baraka given to their family by the Moslem Saint Sidi Ahmed Sheik. In the past, Bachir and Mustapha have collaborated with Talvin Singh, Paul Bowles, Ornette Coleman, Deborah Harry, Sonic Youth, Elliott Sharp, Bill Laswell, Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones, and last ...
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