DRUMS AND TUBA: The Flying Ballerina

Drums and Tuba

The Flying Ballerina

© 1998 3on3 music/Bmi (637051003720)

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1998. a crazy fun record. rock/jazz/a charles mingus cover as well as a minutemen song. Dabbles in Klezmer and punk rock.. lots of improvasation and oddly timed anthems.

tracks

1 Fists of Spaghetti
2 Kermit
3 Chummus, A Challah, and a Whole lot of Chutzpah
4 The Inspector Returns
5 Lots of Luc
6 Blazevitch
7 The Flying Ballerina
8 Scottie Pippen
9 Boogie Stop Shuffle
10 Neal Hamburger
11 God Bows to Math
12 Pig Ears fore Lily
13 Meter Maid
14 Bertone
15 There is a Monster

notes

The band's music sounds like a mixture of skid row jazz, carnivalesque clown tunes, classical odes, and punk rock (on The Flying Ballerina they even interpret the Minutemen's "God Bow's To Math") . They achieve this by retaining elements from multiple sources and crafting their own sound with a laid back sensibility. Box Fetish, the first CD of this collection (running time: 53 minutes), features, along with the solid drum and tuba rhythm section, the twangy and progressive guitar of Neil McKeeby, who sounds vaguely influenced by downtown NYC superstars like Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, and Elliot #. Together with the tight drumming of Anthony Nozero (who also doubles on alto sax), this trio builds up some playfully dour soul music for disheartened rock and rollers of the emerging 21st century.

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  • Excellent
    author: Dugui

    This is as good as it gets. Another for the collection of D&T

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