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HMR 004 Hungry March Band - Portable Soundtracks for Temporary
Utopias
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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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Personnel
Kris Anton
Tara Fire Ball (Theresa Westerdahl)
John
Barker
Jason Candler
Jen Emma
Emily Fairey
Sammy Fairey
Emily
Geller
Don Godwin
Julie Hair
JR Hankins
Cousin John Heyenga
Ben
Holtzman
Rich Hutchins
Sarah Ibrahim
Sebastian Isler
Adam
Loudermilk
Quince Marcum
Ben Meyers
Jeremy Mushlin
Anders
Nelson
Kevin Raczka
Greg Schneiderman
Sasha Sumner
Samantha
Tsistinas
Atsushi Tsumura
Joe Keady
Sara Valentine
Ruth
Walker
Tomohiko Yokoyama
Track Listing
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| 1. |
Bag Search |
3:27 |
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| 2. |
Push It |
3:39 |
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| 3. |
Gde Si, Bre? |
3:25 |
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| 4. |
Blasted |
2:04 |
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| 5. |
Happy Time (The Clam) |
1:24 |
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| 6. |
The Beach |
4:37 |
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| 7. |
Whole Hog |
2:19 |
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| 8. |
Red Box |
4:15 |
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| 9. |
Emergencia |
2:39 |
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| 10. |
A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich, and
You |
4:06 |
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| 11. |
Kradical |
4:16 |
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| 12. |
Hyottoko |
5:28 |
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| 13. |
Socialist March |
1:46 |
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Press Quotes
"the Hungry March Band, NYC’s finest guerrilla
ambulatory
music ensemble." - Time Out New
York
"Ridiculously cool local 24 piece 'marching band'. This
feisty bunch gets
down with some monster grooves, New Orleans-like funeral
& marching music,
foot-stomping cartoon-like hilarity, post-klez and
other ethnic music
mayhem. A complete blast." - Bruce Gallanter,
Downtown Music Gallery, NYC
"best anarchist parade group!" -
Village Voice, Best of NYC 2004
"hippest marching band
ever!" - Public Radio Weekend
"Brooklyn phenomena the
Hungry March Band...with the power of a Bourbon
Street hurricane." -
Dan Aquilante, New York Post
(ESP-Disk')
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