As is true with most things that turn out to be great, Blue Food began as a joke. While listening to James Brown in his car back in the fall of 2007, vocalist Angel Eduardo casually told bassist and co-worker Wilhelmus Sapanaro that it would be fun to holler and wail as the frontman of a big funk band. Three weeks later they were jamming with Angel’s friend Odin Alvarez on drums and were planning to expand the roster to include a full horn section. The weekly sessions would continue in Angel’s basement in Fort Lee, New Jersey as the trio slowly recruited Miles Ungar on guitar, Michael Carolan on trumpet, Jeremy Gorin on saxophone, and finally Chris Winn on trombone over the course of the next year. With a full line up and hours of material gathered through jamming and the audition process, Blue Food was ready to really get cooking.

Naming themselves after a George Carlin bit about the curious absence of any naturally occurring blue edibles (“…don’t say blueberries, ‘cause you know they’re purple”), Blue Food began churning out a sound that was equal parts old school and a brand new style all their own. Experimenting with their varied influences in rock, jazz, and funk, the boys spent the end of 2008 and the first half of 2009 concocting music that promised to pack a wallop with its sheer energy and originality. The result was a collection of songs with their own distinct style—fresh, loud, and guaranteed to whet your musical appetite.

Determined to fill a void in today’s music scene with a big sound, big songs, and a big attitude, Blue Food recorded a 3-song EP entitled “New Old Stock” in the spring of 2009 and prepared themselves for their live debut. Recorded live and pulsing with the energy the band would soon bring to the stage, New Old Stock is Blue Food’s sample helping—just a taste of what’s to come. Including two original compositions—the powerful, upbeat funk-rock “Chef” and the epic and experimental “Waterwalking”—as well as a blazing arrangement of Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song,” the EP displays the range and ability that Blue Food possess and makes whatever they’re cooking up next that much more enticing.

With their first performance at New York City’s famous Bitter End, Blue Food began their foray into the live music circuit—soon booking more shows both in New York and New Jersey and leaving audiences flattened in their wake. In a scene stale with the same old bands doing the same old thing, these seven guys are out to prove that just as your stomachs have never had Blue Food, your ears are just as starved.

-Jac Womm (2009)

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