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, ........
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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
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!
Saturday May 16 ELDRIDGE GRAVY & THE COURT SUPREME ALTERED STATES OF FUNK ORKESTAR ZIRKONIUM Our CD release party, at last! Snap up your own shiny copy of US IS WHAT TIME IT IS, our debut release! With Altered States of Funk (Seattle's venerable P-Funk torch carriers) and Orkestar Zirkonium (a massive, joyous Balkan style marching band who forecast a 95% chance of partying in the streets) Tractor Tavern, 5213 Ballard Ave NW, 9PM, 21+, $10
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Tickets are available from your helpful clerk at Sonic Boom records or online at TicketWeb .
Danny Massure's latest release 'Put It On Me' brings the sounds of acid jazz to the club. The fresh sound is due in part to the featured Seattle funk masters Tracy Ferrara on sax, Jeff Conlin on keys, Jason Graczyk on guitar and Matt Reid on trumpet. The funk gets flipped by remixers BadboE, Jayl Funk, The Breakbeat Junkie and Omegaman.
Hey, Meltdown Festival Fans!
It's that time of year again, festival season is approaching. So a couple very important things to share with our friends, we moved the date of Meltdown this year a week later, August 14th-16th, 2009, same awesome location at the awe inspiring Darrington Whitehorse Mountain Amphitheater! This is an initial line up below with many more bands about to be announced in the coming weeks! Click on the poster image and you can visit our website for more info on the bands and what is to come. Now is the time to mark your calendars and tell your friends about Meltdown Number 9. This is going to be one of the best years yet, but we are dependent upon people like you to spread the word and get your friends out to see what Meltdown is about.
Hallo People! I believe that music can unite people from the most remote corners of our planet. I would like to offer to create live music via Internet together. You can record your instrument via computer and send this record to me via Internet so I can play together with you. Also, together we can find the other musicians for our music created and played together. We can understand each other with the help of our music and send our messages to the whole world!
Come join Z Kamp this Saturday April 4th at the East Side Tavern with two other amazing bands Glass Elevator and Eldridge Gravy. Show starts at 9 and Z Kamp ends the night!
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