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Article: From the Inside Out

Put It Where You Want It (But Find It Where You Put It)

by Chris M. Slawecki
March 13, 2019

Hip Spanic All-Stars Old-School Revolution Self-Produced 2018 If you think that Old School Revolution sounds both familiar and new, you're right. In the late 2000s, bassist and singer Happy Sanchez, saxophonist Norbert Stachel (Tower of Power), percussionist Karl Perazzo (a longstanding member of Santana), ...

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News: Recording

Brass Menazeri: Songs in 7/8, Fat Bass Lines & High Speed Horn Antics

July 9, 2010

Sousaphones, Super Fly, and 7/8: Brass Menazeri's Bumping Brass Party Grooves from Bosnia to Bollywood Bosnian gems mingle with Bollywood bangles, while Rromani (Gypsy) hits mix with super-fly funk. Thanks to dreamed melodies and down-and-dirty bass lines, Brass Menazeri has been packing Mission bars with a heady mix of Balkan perfection and Bay Area eccentricity, of ...

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News: Recording

Aphrodesia: The New Afrobeat Generation

July 16, 2009

Aphrodesia isn't afraid to turn everything on its head and send it through the distortion pedals of their own sensibility. A slang term for Shanghai hookers becomes a tribute to women's value; wall-shaking amps create the perfect distortion for an age-old lamellophone; a cross-continent move spells inspiration not band demise; and a new-found freedom turns dedicated ...