Last December, I wrote about a new crop of experimental marching bands. No Sousa cliches from these guys, but pop covers, free jazz, ethnic influences, and humor abound. And Seattle's Infernal Noise Brigade seems to have been way ahead of the curve, forming back in 1999. The now-defunct band released a few albums in their day.
This is their debut, and it certainly lives up to it's name - none of the usual brass band sounds here. No brass at all, in fact, just percussion and vocals. And odd vocals at that, sometimes seemingly sung in foreign tongues, real or imagined, but so distorted (as marching band p.a. vox often are) that it's hard to tell. Occasional stray sounds and abstract video-game-ish electronic effects pop up as well.
Pick hit: "Gas? No Gas," a mad riot of tribal drumming in an unusual tempo, large crowd chanting, and techno/dub-ish production, all smothered in weird sound effects. Awesome.
Infernal Noise Brigade - Insurgent Selections for Battery and Voice
The song "Goat Eyes" expands on the usual marching band drum corp by incorporating what sounds like traditional Moroccan percussion - I forget what they're called, but they're like giant metal castanets. Two "PSAs" are humorous mock radio commercials for the band. And "Fulminate" features what sounds like vuvuzelas. Very obscure.
s.
Monday, August 2, 2010
AVANT MARCH: Infernal Noise Brigade
Posted by
harry-inside
at
2:14 PM
Tags :
Brass/Marching Band,
Percussion,
Related : AVANT MARCH: Infernal Noise Brigade
Le Enfant Terrible: Music Made from Pots, Pans, and ToysManchester band Le Enfant Terrible sent me a link to their new album, describing it thusly: "It's effectively 'World Music' but not quite. It's music made ...
RE-POST RE-QUESTS REDUX...AND DELIGHTFUL XYLOPHONE NOVELTIESThe New Age pseudo-Hindu bluegrass album Hindu Kush Mountain Boys is back up, by request. I say! Does anyone have: The Full Life All-Stars, "Ya No Hay Beatles," The Mus ...
Music For Saw Blades, Wood Planks, and Rolling BBs Around in a Dish I am woefully behind in heppin' you-all to the latest and greatest releases awaiting your cold cash. I have so many samples of new releases that I'm splitting them ...
JUNK ORCHESTRAS Pt 3I'll be guest dj-ing once again this Sunday, 8pm PST on Spacebrother Greg's "Radio Misterioso," bringing up another batch of wild sounds that have mostly not been featur ...
Orbitones, Spoon Harps & BellowphonesThis splendid sampler of eccentric madmen/geniuses and their homemade instruments is the 1998 sequel to an album we featured here a couple years ago, "Gravikords Whirlie ...
Previous
Next Post »
Next Post »
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)