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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue

Read "Forked Tongue" reviewed by Joel Roberts


What do Billy Idol, Ornette Coleman and Doris Day have in common? One thing at least: They’re all fodder for the creative madness of the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble (RSE), the wildly eclectic, uproariously entertaining Boston-based group that offers a post-modern, Sun Ra-meets-Mardi Gras twist (down to their outrageous costumes) on the New Orleans brass band tradition. ...

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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue

Read "Forked Tongue" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il Revolutionary Snake Ensemble di Ken Field conferma con questo eccitante Forked Tongue la buonissima impressione che ci aveva lasciato col disco di esordio Year of the Snake (uscito per Innova nel 2003). La trama di fondo è sempre quella delle marching band di New Orleans ma gli sviluppi dell’azione ci portano inesorabilmente ben oltre i ...

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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Forked Tongue

Read "Forked Tongue" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Feel good. It's okay to feel good in these days of war, floods, pestilence, and (insert the current price of) gasoline. Certainly the tradition of jazz, especially New Orleans jazz, tells us to celebrate the moment, even if that moment is minutes after you've buried a love one. For that you must have a brass band ...

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Download Two Free MP3's from the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's "Forked Tongue" and "Year of the Snake"

Download Two Free MP3's from the Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's "Forked Tongue" and "Year of the Snake"

Download two free MP3s from Revolutionary Snake Ensemble's Forked Tongue and Year of the Snake. Under the Skin Revolutionary Snake Ensemble From Forked Tongue 3:00 Central Square Revolutionary Snake Ensemble From Year of the Snake 05:51 About Revolutionary Snake Ensemble Dressed a la Mardi ...

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Under the Skin

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Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 3:00

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Song of the Day

Central Square

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Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Duration: 05:51

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Year of the Snake

Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Parade (Field) (5:29) 2. Year of the Snake (Peterson/Field/Herschman/Paull/Pilkington/VanBeever) (2:22) 3. Soul Makossa (Dibango) (5:37) 4. Soul Power (Brown) (5:04) 5. A Call For All Demons (Sun Ra) (6:56) 6. Central Square (Field) (5:51) 7. Some Nerve (Scofield) (4:29) 8. El Choclo (Villoldo) (5:18) 9. Iko Iko/Aicho (Crawford/Field) (5:43) 10. I Got It (Field) (4:25)

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Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Year of the Snake

Read "Year of the Snake" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Two things matter most when it comes to funk: the music has to be fun, and it can't be boring. Apply this filter and a whole lot of mass market dreck drops right out the bottom. But plenty of records pass the test--for example, Garage a Trois and Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet--and they deserve frequent, loud ...


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