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| 320 kps MP3 DRM Free |
| Includes artwork |
| 124.50 MB zipped |
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| In Digipack with liner notes |
| Engine Studios |
| Digital download included |
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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.
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
Upcoming Live Dates
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