HUNGRY MARCH BAND: Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias

Hungry March Band

Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias

© 2007 Hungry March Band (616892903925)

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Brass band music with punk attitude, appropriate for dancing, rioting, getting married, or quitting one's job.

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The fourth album from the Hungry March Band is a 13-track manifesto of the brass band as social utopia.

What are the mathematics of paradise? What algorithm, when followed to excess, is guaranteed to produce not just astonishment, but an existential division of Before and After? Or, even trickier, what magic combination will lift the moment out of its ordinary context just long enough to make the wedding stick, or bury the old friend, or change the attitude at a demonstration, and meanwhile always seduce the audience? Surely one such algorithm involves a bunch of horns and drums pounding out a set of vibrations so complicated, yet so catchy, that a guarantee of total transformation is not only possible, but unavoidable!

This may sound like a tall claim, but it is the only reasonable explanation for why the Hungry March Band remains in constant demand on their home turf in New York City, a place where every nook and corner already resonates with the machinations of symbolic capital. The marvelous inefficiency of the Brass Band, and the studied surrealism of the Hungry March Band in particular, are a secret tool for the production of momentary paradise, perfectly captured in Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias.

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  • my version of utopia
    author: Bobby Danger

    My version of utopia has all of these lovely folks in it, making me dance and shout and smile. This album destroys.

  • awwwwwww yeah
    author: Combo

    Party record of the summer!

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