They started with the slightly unfashionable idea of covering the music of Russ Freeman, a 1950s West Coast jazz musician best known for his recordings with Chet Baker.
Sometimes he relies on the tiny blippy noises for percussion, but in places he uses a drummer as well, playing thrashing solos over the electronics.įor about two years, the trumpeter John McNeil and the tenor saxophonist Bill McHenry led a quartet on Monday nights at a restaurant in Brooklyn Night and Day, which later turned into Biscuit and is now closed and built a repertory. (This is not to be confused with the microculture of bands like the NESKimos and the Advantage, who perform live versions of Nintendo game songs.) He takes the little sounds out of context the junior researchers in my home tell me that the sound sources lean heavily toward Mario games maneuvering and repeating them and pitch-shifting them into song.
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A few years ago he got into making tracks with Nintendo Game Boy sounds, and on “Drumized” (Load) he sticks to the concept for a full album. Scotch Egg is Shige Ishihara, a Japanese producer based in Brighton, England his club specialty is gabber, a fast-and-hard, tooth-loosening kind of techno. It’s an original and mysterious record it takes practice to sound this spontaneous.ĭ.J. Some of the melodies and arrangements are durable set pieces other stretches seem to have been worked out in freely improvised collaboration, then molded into place within the songs. But “The Ken Burns Effect” (Hometapes), the band’s new record, has an eerie power. (Everything is played by a set of smart young New York improvisers: Shelley Burgon, Gerald Menke, Matt Lavelle and others.) And Montgomery Knott’s singing voice, often in that vulnerable, private-falsetto mode that Dave Matthews uses for effect, can be precious, too. Its profusion of thin and unusual sounds from xylophone, harp, banjo, dobro, flute, small bells, bass clarinet can render its music a little precious. A dreamy experimental-pop band that pushes against band-ness, Stars Like Fleas makes songs that sound, at best, as if they fell out of the sky in random but concordant patterns.
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