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Forty Fort

Album: Forty Fort
By Mostly Other People Do the Killing
Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 8:31

Album

Forty Fort

By Mostly Other People Do the Killing

Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Pen Argyl; Rough and Ready; Blue Ball; Nanticoke Coke; Little Hope; Forty Fort; Round Bottom; Square Top; Mary's Proctor; Cute.

Album

Forty Fort

By Moppa Elliott

Label: Hot Cup Records
Released: 2010

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni

The experience of listening to the highly gifted quartet Mostly Other Do the Killing (MOPDtK) is like taking a ride on roller-coaster while drunk, but still trusting your life in the hands of a wild driver who often has some epileptic fits. It is fun, no doubt; a wild fun, like going to a circus. But ...

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Mostly Other People Do The Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose

Several wonderful things distinguish Mostly Other People Do The Killing (MOPDtK) from almost any other band playing today in the long shadows of Thelonious Monk and Ornette Coleman. These are, in no particular order: a wild humor; an extreme sense of the angular melody; brave harmonies; and a leaping sense of rhythm. None of these pay ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Jakob Baekgaard

by Jakob Baekgaard

Even though jazz is an improvised art that's bursting with the unexpected, some groups stand out as being especially adventurous and wild. In terms of anarchy of sound, Mostly Other People Do the Killing is in a class of its own. On their fourth effort, Forty Fort, the group descends further into musical ...

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Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort

Read "Forty Fort" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Irreverent devils, aren't they, these four guys who make up the piano-less quartet called Mostly Other People Do the Killing (MOPDtK)? This is Our Moosic (Hot Cup Records, 2008) was a play on Ornette Coleman's This Is Our Music (Atlantic, 1960) in title and with the cover photo and design. Forty Fort sports a cover laid ...


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