Hop Productions
4862 13th Ave South
Seattle, Wa 98108
email.. booking@dasvibenbass.com
web.. www.hoppro.com
(001) 206.235.2899
Influences
We like the music. So we play the music. Come on people! Seattle is full of the Music. Here's some of OUR Seattle friends: Industrial Revelation, Nepotista's, KEXP, Joe Doria, Pocket Change, Arisawkadoria, Thadeus Turner, We Wrote the Book ON Connectors, Yogoman, La Push, Bad Dream Good Breakfast, Korby Lenker, The Gun's, Mike Grigoni, The Barbed Wire Cutters, Joel Ricci, Olympic Sound Collective, The suffering Fuckheads, Flowmotion,John Meloy, The Seamonster, B-shorty, PKE Meter, Don Hopwood, Cheeba, Locke, Anish, Evan Flore Barnes, Bob Reese, Soup of the Day, By the Way, ........
Sounds Like
Live Footage of Turn up the Turbulence / 2/21/09 / Goodfoot Portland, OR
A small documentary put together by our friends, The Thirsty Fathers from Portland, Or
New Album, Fodakis Available Now!
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Dave Holland, John Medeski, Scott LaFaro, John Scofield, The Bad Plus, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Chris Wood,Cindi Lauper, Milt Jackson, Jason Moran, The Devil............Thats good for now
From Seattle to New York to Berlin, audiences have been fascinated by the musical sound of Das Vibenbass. The group has independently released three full-length records, all of which have garnered tremendous support from the indie jazz community. They have sustained numerous spots atop Seattle’s critically acclaimed KEXP 90.3 jazz chart, as well a prestigious nomination, alongside Wayne Horvitz, for Best Jazz/Experimental act in the Seattle Weekly’s Best of 2006. Constant tours of the United States, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic have spawned a devoted fan base whose discriminating tastes welcome only the best into clubs. Venues include Seattle’s Triple Door, Hamburg’s Birdland and Pianos in New York.
DVB has a knack of stunning its audiences with their precise, uncompromising timbre. Geoff Larson and JC Bockman structure the groups’ prime sensibility with flooding bass and raucous drums. Josh Clifford lends his versatile tenor saxophone to passages that require both ferocity and elegance, while Justin Sorensen assertively haunts the sound with his contemporary approach on the vibraphone.
Over the past year Das has shifted its musical ideals and finds their focus on compositionally based instrumental songwriting. It has seen them become much more lyrically grounded with the ability to paint giant canvases of sound. Imagine a movie score being created on stage with the ability to aurally induce strong emotions in its audiences. You can expect to see DVB progress from beautiful passages to dissonant and harsh periods all within a single piece.
DVB's official blog, "memoirs of elliot prototype" can be found here
Selected Quotes from the Press
"Das Vibenbass know jazz history well and they tweak it with enough modern rhythmic dexterity and dynamic surprises to avoid the stodgy whiff of museum curatorship." Dave Segal - The Stranger
"Economical yet decadent, it's a mysterious, elegant brand of experimental jazz that would serve as the ultimate soundtrack for the harsh bar at the end of the world. " -SC Metro
"These guys have taken the principles of classic jazz and blended them into a unique twist of crashing drums, pounding double bass, bell-like vibes and screaming sax." - Seattle Weekly
"a sprawling rhythm section coupled with a spry and devious tenor sax that is film noiry in its devilish intrigue. But the added element of surreality goes to the vibraphone, sometimes creepy, sometimes sublime." -GT Weekly
"original, decidedly fresh and innovative, ranging from atmospheric and moody to downright funky and strange-it's sonically satisfying" -Chico News and Review
"loose-limbed, liquid, and sparkling." -Seattle Weekly
We are very excited about playing at such an awesome jazz club. We have some great sets lined up for you, so don't miss it. Friday and Saturday November 20th and 21st, 5:00-8:30p at Andy's Jazz Club in Chicago
Aaron Koppel -Guitar, Matt Nelson; (Lupe Fiasco, Matthew Santos) -Keyboard, Graham Czach; (Chicago Afrobeat Project) -bass, Robert Tucker (Matthew Santos) -drums
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
Black Suede has just recently released a New song titled "Revenue Stream." We know you have great taste in music. Drop through and let us know what think about it. Your Opinion Means a lot!
We all know there's nothing more annoying than some random band asking you to sign up for their mailing list. Oh, hey, by the way. Wanna sign up for my mailing list? Click here if you do.
Peace and love, James Coates Random musical solicitor
JFJO returns to NYC this FRIDAY (JULY 18th) for an 11:30pm set at Joe's Pub! Come check out the new quartet lineup as they destroy Joe's on a Friday night!
Advance tickets are still available.
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Salutations, fellas! Just dropping by to send my best and hoping you are blowing up the scene in the City! Looking forward to catching you in the PNW this fall!
loved yer show at the delancey last week (awesome version of miserlou!) and opening for jfjo last month...really enjoying the ep...hope i can catch u again this summer!
