SOMEONE LIKES IT ZOMBIE! - MR. ZOMBIE ORCHESTRA

SOMEONE LIKES IT ZOMBIE! ( CVLD240 )

Author : AAVV
Performer : Mr. Zombie Orchestra

Available in: HD File, CD

Executive Producer: Marco Lincetto
Music Producers: Marco Lincetto & Mr. Zombie Orchestra
Recording, mixing and mastering: Marco Lincetto
Photo: Ilenco Tracmot
Layout: The image
Sales and Marketing Manager: Patrizia Pagiaro

Traces

01 - Such sweet thunder - Duke Ellington
02 - Petite fleur - Sidney Bechet
03 - The cumparsita - Gerardo Matos Rodriguez
04 - New Orleans bump - Jelly Roll Morton
05 - St James Infirmary - Traditional
06 - Indiana - McDonald & Hanley
07 - Les yeux noirs - Traditional
08 - Ba-ba-kiss me, little one - Luigi Astore
09 - Habanera from Carmen - Georges Bizet
10 - Gnossienne n.1 - Erik Satie
11 - Sunset - According to Casadei
12 - Milonga de mis amores - Pedro Laurenz

Notes

"MR. ZOMBIE ORCHESTRA"

A constantly moving, magmatic drum kit, a bass that's always fully at the center of the action, a fluid and elusive guitar and piano that's simultaneously capable of uniting distant worlds... this is the first impact when listening to "Mr Zombie Orchestra" live, a group that shows even the most distracted listener that they possess many more references than they themselves declare in their manifesto, which cites Jelly Roll Morton and Secondo Casadei on the same level (but to which one can easily add Anibal Troilo, Georges Bizet, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone, Django Reinhardt, and the list certainly doesn't end there).
The impression is of expert research, indulging in an "omnivorous" taste that nevertheless magically manages to convey a sense of completeness and style. "Mr. Zombie" draws the audience into a fairytale, recreating the atmosphere of an early 20th-century orchestra that blends waltzes, jazz, mazurkas, and tangos with no concern for anything other than the audience's enjoyment and their own personal musical enjoyment. Except that the orchestra in question, rather than emerging from a holographic past, seems decidedly from the third millennium or even beyond, more akin in many ways to the bee "cantina band" from Star Wars than to certain swing remakes of recent recordings. The result is something very different from the material used, a result that both disconcerts and fascinates with the constant prestidigitation performed by these young sorcerer's apprentices.
The undeniable skill of the four, highly at ease in all the musical styles they mix in their magical melting pot, makes the project a highly interesting unicum in the Italian music scene, so stingy with musical intelligence these days.