[Dixielandjazz] Slavic Soul Party! -MKOM

[David Richoux]

I saw them in Brooklyn for their last home show before this tour -  
99% agreement with you, David! It is not that far from OKOM, in my  
opinion.

Their website is http://www.slavicsoulparty.com  and I just got their  
latest CD.

I have been getting very interested in this kind of music in the last  
few years - it is such a blend of styles, not only jazz and klezmer,  
but so much more. There are two web groups that may be of further  
interest to those who want to explore:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/StreetBand
and
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanbrass/

Dave Richoux

On May 15, 2007, at 5:18 PM, David Dustin wrote:

> Here in the north woods I don’t get out enough for new music. But on a
> musical omnivore friend’s recommendation I got out to hear a band  
> Saturday
> night that I enjoyed tremendously, even though it was far from  
> OKOM.  From
> Brooklyn, nine guys with accordion, trumpets, trombones, clarinet,
> euphonium, Sousaphone, snare drum and a Balkans style bass drum  
> calling
> themselves ‘Slavic Soul Party!’  (Exclamation point is part of the  
> name.)
> Superb musicians all.  Triple-tongued brass-band music from the  
> Balkans,
> heavily influenced by Klezmer and Gypsy brass bands of that general  
> region.
> They opened for a silken-harmonied Canadian trio called the Wailing  
> Jennys
> (often featured on Prairie Home Companion), and I think the Jennys  
> — though
> excellent -- probably found Slavic Soul Party an extremely tough  
> act to
> follow judging by the wildly enthusiastic response from a bunch of  
> staid
> ‘swamp Yankees’ in southern New Hampshire. And it was audience that  
> skewed
> toward the upper 50s in age although the performance was on a college
> campus.
>
> David Dustin
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