Recent years have seen some serious cross polinations of the musical genres,
jazzpunk, crunk, ska punk, nu rave and rapmetal. Okay, so maybe not so much the last one but you get the idea. It seems that the more genres you can get into your musical arsenal the better your music, but Tchaikovsky influenced-indie-rock crossed with flamenco guitar flourishes and jazz leanings? Seriously?
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, Black and white Tango. Combining vaudevillian dancehall elements with alternative rock. From the ghostly and grandiose piano courtesy of Jamie intro on "The Ballet" that shows definate influences from the spacey pianos of Muse ("don't ask Jamie about muse!" Tom had warned me earlier) or "Cosmic Love" which slides and blends seemlesly from rock to techno rock through a classical piano solo. It shouldn't suprise you then to find out that bands unique musical vision took over a year to perfect "
We didn't gig for the longest time" explains drummer Andy "it was a year before we had our first gig, and although we had a few songs we were experimenting more with sounds then anything. It takes you out of the loop of all the music going around and that's good because it gives you a chance to develop your own sound without sounding like everyone else on the scene"
"It just gave us a chance to make music that sounded good to us" agrees frontman Tom "I didn't want to play a gig and then the time came, I can't remember when and I just felt ready"
Another group that crops up in descriptions of Black and White Tango are Radiohead , and although certain elements do seem to owe a debt to Thom Yorke and his crew the similarty is more in the bands willingness to push themsleves and do something unexpected and groundbreaking."I don't think it's because we sound like but more because we are trying to do something like them" agrees guitarist and backing vocalist Adam.
Like their music the bands name was deliberated on for a long time until one was finally settled upon "Our name represents the imagery we try to present in our music. Our first song the Ballet was originally called Black and White Tango because it conjured up an image of a black and white movie, the contradiction between the two colours" explains Tom "and I guess that also reflects the different types of music we play with each song. I try to tell a story with each song rather then writing about life and relationships, It's like writing music for a film"
Unlike most bands combining musical genres, Black and White Tango are constantly searching for more elelements to incorporate into their music. "our new song is salsa influenced" comments Tom "I Think the song were most proud of is always the next song we are working on, the newest of the bunch and seeing were we can take it next"
myspace.com/blackandwhitetango
Black and White Tango Email Address: jimtedg8@hotmail.com
Thanks very much- we are honoured! Amazing site and sounds here! Drop on by anytime you like for some moonshine & music, hope you don't mind if we do the same!
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Hiya, No we did all of the stuff online at the moment ourselves, most drums in studio, some tracks live and some overdubs at home. we mixed everything from pelicanalia with a guy called James W (drummer from Rochelle) last year, and the newer stuff with our mate Joe who has just moved to chicago. if you wanna get in touch with them let me know and I will give you there email. ..cheers for listening, well safe...we're recording newer stuff at home now and might end up recording with fraser, depends. .. keep in touch, maybe see you around.
Thanks for the myspacial friendship, Jamie, and here’s wishing you a happy week, heavy with hilarious hoaxes, hospitable headless horsemen, heroic hobgoblins, hopeful harpy healers, horrifying heaps of horseradish, humorous hamster hags, haunted hairy harmonicas, and heavenly hellhounds howling heartfelt haikus about horoscope-handy hippopotami.
I was wondering if you'd do me the honor of checking out one of my short stories. I'd love to hear what you think.
Happytimes, -Jeremy :)
Peter: Oh my god, Brian, there's a message in my Alphabits. It says, 'Oooooo.' Brian: Peter, those are Cheerios.
yeah, sounds good, best person to speak to is our manager, he's the one who arranges all this stuff for us, his name is matt and his myspace is mafia management, in our top friends, we'd definatley be interested in coming to hull though, i cant see why we cant get a gig in brum with you guys, it'd be good to meet some like minded people. let us know how you get on, i will listen to your tunes as soon as i get my speakers on pc working :) hopefully see you soon million empire
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