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The Ratchet Orchestra

Celebrating and Reflecting Back on Guelph Jazz Festival @ 30

by Josef Woodard
October 1, 2023

Guelph Jazz Festival Guelph Otario, Canada September 14-17, 2023 There are precious few jazz festivals in the Americas adhering to what could be called the Triple-A curatorial mandate: adventurous, avant-garde and art-centric. These special cases cling to a commercially fragile, demographically marginal--and also culturally vital--realm and mission. Such conditions make ...

Hemlock

By The Ratchet Orchestra

Label: Drip Audio
Released: 2012
Track listing: Winnow; Dusty; Yield; Wish pt.1; Wish pt.2; Kick; Safety; Hemlock pt. 1; Hemlock pt. 2.

The Ratchet Orchestra: Hemlock

by Ted Harms
December 4, 2012

Wikipedia defines a ratchet as a mechanical device that allows for motion in only one direction; it also could be a piss-take or deliberate mispronunciation of “rat shit." Certainly the former is more appropriate for The Ratchet Orchestra's Hemlock, from a very large ensemble led by bassist/composer Nicolas Caloia. This group of 30 players is primarily ...