Gypsophilia

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Montréal

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Released: Sep 27, 2011

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Montréal
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Jewish Dance Party!
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Sa-ba-da-OW!
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Genre: Big Beat / Crunk / Jazz
Location Halifax, Nova Scotia, Ca
Profile Views: 33160
Last Login: 10/10/2011
Member Since 11/13/2006
Website www.gypsophilia.org
Record Label unsigned
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Halifax-based Gypsophilia is a group of seven young performers whose music straddles the jazz and indie worlds. The band started in 2004 as a Django Reinhardt-inspired project, but soon found itself mixing gypsy jazz with klezmer, funk, classical music, indie rock, and bebop, writing its own tunes and playing to sold out crowds. The band's latest record, the ECMA-award winning Sa-ba-da-OW! (June 2009), offers up a wide variety of sounds, self-produced and recorded in Halifax's Echo Chamber studio, and engineered by Charles Austin (Joel Plaskett, Buck 65, Al Tuck, Matt Mays, Super Friendz, Garrett Mason). The band's typical lineup of three guitars, violin, double bass, trumpet and piano is bolstered on the album with synthesizer, backbeat handclaps, impromptu gang vocals, percussion, and slide whistle. And next to some classic swing grooves, be prepared to find klezmer, funk, reggae, tango and game show music. Sa-ba-da-OW! has sold well across the country during the band's national festival tours in 2009 and 2010, and has charted well, finishing in the number 1 slot overall for 2009 on !chartattack's national campus radio jazz charts. In between touring dates Gypsophilia has been busy working on new material for a third album to be recorded in December 2010, and recently recorded the soundtrack to Chaz Thorne's feature film Whirligig. The band also released a music video in April, and has just completed a second music video which debuted at the Atlantic Film Festival in September. The seven-piece Gypsophilia features Alec Frith, Nick Wilkinson and Ross Burns on guitars; Sageev Oore on piano and keyboards; Matt Myer on trumpet; Adam Fine on double bass and Gina Burgess on violin. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
Ross Burns - guitar ........ Sageev Oore - piano/keyboards ........ Matt Myer - trumpet ........ Nick Wilkinson - guitar ........ Adam Fine - double bass ........ Alec Frith - guitar ........ Gina Burgess - violin ........ Daniel Oore - Member Emeritus ........
Influences
swing, beer, rock, coffee, game show, bikes, funk, swiming, bop, puns, pop, parties, hop, Agricola/Northwood/Lawrence/Liverpool/Gottigen streets, dance, jive, clatter, klez, jazz
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