| Kamikaze Ground Crew / Postcards From The Highwire |
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| Album: | Postcards From The Highwire | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Kamikaze Ground Crew | Added: | 09/2007 | |
| Label: | Busmeat Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-10-28 | Pull Date: | 2007-12-30 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | 30 Dec | 23 Dec | 16 Dec | 18 Nov | 11 Nov | 4 Nov |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Apr 12, 2022: | Virtually Happy S'albufera | 4. | Dec 28, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum S'albufera | |
| 2. | Apr 08, 2011: | No Cover, No Minimum Habanera 3 | 5. | Dec 18, 2007: | Crosscurrents Everybody Is A Star | |
| 3. | Feb 26, 2011: | Music Casserole Habanera 3, Christopher Columbus | 6. | Dec 14, 2007: | Memory Select Shotgun Bouquet |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2007-10-28 | ||
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KAMIKAZE GROUND CREW: Postcards from the Highwire Busmeat, 2007 ODDBALL CHAMBER-JAZZ – Hard to pin down as always, this inventive septet (originally from the Bay Area, now based in NYC) mixes up styles and instrumentation but maintains a warm, lighthearted sense of camaraderie. Neither mainstream nor “out,” this group walks its own path, easily bridging old-school and postmodern jazz ideas. Fo’s Picks: Disc 1 – 2, 4, 6, 7 Disc 2 – 3, 4, 5, 6 DISC ONE: 1. 0:10 – bell tones 2. 4:03 – slow spiraling march, simple repeating melody, layered horns… nice 3. 2:06 – slow, romantic latin piano; cinematic horns & perc, enigmatic end 4. 9:38 – popping sax into a cool horn slide, a touch of funk, breakdown, soloists wrestle with insistent riffs, gloopy bounce near the end 5. 2:51 – slouching horn interlude, roams over melancholy tuba 6. 6:21 – classic blues tune: overlapping horns combine into a lowdown lope 7. 4:47 – swing!: tuba craziness into happy riffs and jaunty solos DISC TWO: 1. 0:45 – tinkling bells 2. 9:44 – moody piano intro, slow horns speed way up, mellow interlude, builds back into a churning groove, ends as it began 3. 3:57 – Sly Stone tune: Slooow drag at first, perks up to relaxed stroll 4. 12:12 – sneaky groove with bobbing, undulating horns, relaxed sax solo, several murky interludes, trumpet over gliding groove, sparse end 5. 3:42 – Shakespeare as torchy swing ballad; lots of chatter, fades in & out 6. 9:15 – mysterious carnivale atmosphere, surges and slinks; soulful sax solo, haunting accordion, shifts to low drag over reggae beat! [ Fo ] 28-Oct-07 | ||
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