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Slavic Soul Party

Slavic Soul Party: Live at Barbes: Slavic Soul Party Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 21, 2017

In the late 1990s, visionary percussionist Matt Moran founded Slavic Soul Party, a brass band designed to stretch the boundaries between Eastern and Western European traditional music until those boundaries snap. More than two decades and twenty members later, “New York's Official #1 Brass Band for BalkanSoulGypsyFunk" fully realizes this vision by performing one of Duke ...

Sometimes Jazz Takes Guts

by Chris M. Slawecki
February 28, 2017

Brownout Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath II Ubiquity Records 2016 Brownout bandleader and guitarist Adrian Quesada listened to a lot of different music, including blood-curdling heavy metal monsters Black Sabbath, while growing up in South Texas. Even while creating original music more reflective of their Mexican and American funk, ...

Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite

By Slavic Soul Party

Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2016
Track listing: Tourist Point of View; Bluebird of Delhi; Isfahan; Depk; Mount Harissa; Blue Pepper; Agra; Amad; Ad Lib on Nippon.

Slavic Soul Party: Plays Duke Ellington's Far East Suite

by Angelo Leonardi
November 23, 2016

Nel jazz contemporaneo la reinterpretazione delle opere passate avviene in due modi diversi. Da un lato c'è chi privilegia la riproposizione fedele dell'originale, partendo da una prospettiva a grandi linee accademica (Wynton Marsalis) fino alla riproduzione letterale di ogni aspetto melodico, timbrico e ritmico (come ha fatto il gruppo Mostly Other People Do The Killing con ...

David Andrew Moore: Personal Mythologies

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 11, 2014

The debut album of drummer David Andrew Moore, a collaborator of world music band Slavic Soul Party, clarinetist Andy Statman and drummer Ches Smith, attempts to match modern jazz with elements of chamber music and African and European folk traditions. Moore chose a unique instrumentation for this recording--soprano sax, viola, bass, keyboards and himself on drums ...

Taketron

By Slavic Soul Party

Label: Barbes Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Welcome; Taketron; Baltika; Get It How You Live; Sviraj Srecko; Pavketov Stakato; Tatiana; Real Simple; Sarba (Moldavian traditional); Canaan Land; Laughter Club; Sancti Petri; Hymn.

Slavic Soul Party: Taketron

by Chris M. Slawecki
May 24, 2010

The massive Baltic brass band Slavic Soul Party (SSP) has played in Istanbul and Carnegie Hall, Macedonia and the Kennedy Center, Serbia and the Knitting Factory, and currently resides Tuesday nights at Club Barbes in Brooklyn, which released this fifth SSP album on its own label. “I think Taketron really shows our original style, more so ...

Slavic Soul Party -- Teknochek Collision

By Slavic Soul Party

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Ladies (and Gentlemen); Teknochek Collision; Shishko's Blues; Opa Cup [with ESP]; Occapella (Have a Beer); Rumenka Takes a Drive; ¡Ruchenista!; Djelem, Djelem [with ESP]; Vranje; 9 at the Rive; Never Gonna Let You Go; Outro.

Slavic Soul Party: Slavic Soul Party -- Teknochek Collision

by Matthew Miller
March 9, 2008

Slavic Soul Party has the best steady gig in Brooklyn. Every Tuesday night at Barbé's belongs to the tight, Balkan ensemble: forever. It's a savvy business decision for the tiny bar-cum-performance space and a great opportunity for the ensemble to refine the potent mix of Balkan, gypsy, jazz and funk influences that make them utterly unique. ...