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October 19, 2009
MarchFourth Marching Band
I got a chance to see MarchFourth Marching Band over the weekend, and was completely enamored of their blazing, kickass funk. It was the kind of funk that you could only really get by deploying five drummers (including a dedicated cymbal player), six horn players, and a powerfully grooving bass player who got the opportunity to strut around the center of the stage like a lead geetar player given that everyone else in the band was trapped behind their instrument mics. Admittedly this new studio album, Rise Up, fails to transmit some of the other essential glories of the band - the alluring majorette squad, the death-defying stilt-walkers, the five-foot tall cowbell(!) - but this music remains an obvious force for Good Times all the same. ("Nightmarika" is presented in anticipation of Halloween, natch.)
MarchFourth Marching Band - Ninth Ward Calling
MarchFourth Marching Band - Nightmarika
Recently on Comfort Radio:
Automator - A Better Tomorrow
Dirty Is God - Red Moon Baby
New York Ska-Jazz Ensemble - See Saw
Posted by Scotto at October 19, 2009 10:26 PM
Comments
awwwwwesome... dan, my friend from high school, knows these guys. they were one of the bands he was trying to bring back to camp on sunday to eat our food.
Posted by: Kat at October 20, 2009 12:28 PM
Loving this. xoxo!
Posted by: Mol at November 11, 2009 11:59 PM