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SLAVIC SOUL PARTY!
Thursday, March 5th
New York's #1 Balkan-Soul-Gypsy-Funk Brass Band
8:30 PM, $10/12,
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Moe's Alley proudly presents the Santa Cruz debut of Brooklyn's Slavic Soul Party featuring vocalist Eva Primack.
The new breed of "world music" artist defies simple categories of identity and place, and there’s no better example than New York brass band Slavic Soul Party!. 10 people strong – male and female, black and white, Gypsy and gadjo – Slavic Soul Party! brings accordion wizardry, throbbing funk, virtuosic jazz chops, and beguiling singing to the searing Balkan brass sound, creating an ecstatic mash-up out of the unexpected results of immigration and globalization.
Of course being a New York band doesn't mean everyone is from New York. On Thursday, March 5th Moe's Alley presents the bands' first appearance in Santa Cruz, the home town of singer Eva Salina Primack. The band is touring in preparation for the release of an album featuring Primack in September on Barbès Records, setting her intense Balkan vocals to brass band and Gypsy accordion in ways both entirely unconventional and authentic. Moe's Alley is located at 1535 Commercial Way in Santa Cruz; the show begins at 8:30pm and is $10 in advance or $12 at the door.
Long a critical success, SSP! has become an underground influence on artists from Serbia to New Orleans: the title track of their 2007 release Teknochek Collision (Barbès Records) is covered both by Serbian brass stars Boban Markovic Orkestar and New Orleans neo-funk stars Galactic. Gogol Bordello used the band as a horn section on their last album, and Sufjan Stevens drew inspiration from SSP!’s passion and rhythmic complexity, calling SSP! “terrifying, exhausting and way more aggressive than a lot of punk music I've seen.” That’s no reason to be scared though; as TimeOut NY says, “the group isn't preoccupied with rebelling against the Old World. The Big Easy funk influence on the band's recent Teknochek Collision adds a welcome laid-back quality to Balkan-brass frenetics. Live, the band's members prove they are acutely aware of the common principle that unites the traditions they borrow from: Music ought to move you.”
Fiery Balkan brass, hip-grinding American grooves, and ecstatic anthems both new and old: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City – melding Gypsy, East European, Mexican, and Asian immigrant backgrounds with American jazz and soul – and “developed a reputation for delivering a great time.” (NY Times) One of the hardest working bands in New York, SSP! plays nearly 100 times a year in the US, Europe, and beyond. They have performed at Babylon (Istanbul) with the Karandila Orkestar, at Irving Plaza (New York City) with Gogol Bordello, on the Warped Tour (US), and in virtually every major New York club. The band's third cd "Teknochek Collision" is on the Barbes Records label, available to the world April 3, 2007 through Ryko Distribution.
“Prepare to be transported… a soulful, adventurously improvised blast from Party Central." –Barnes & Noble Online
“The players have the muscle and know-how to make Balkan sounds crackle with NYC energy… we strongly recommend you witness it live and direct.” –TimeOut NY
"SSP! make wonderful and exciting music, exuding a thrilling and unpasteurized blend of traditional forms cheerfully reconsidered and reconstituted by a restlessly rolling creative collective." –AllMusic Guide
"...some of the most danceable Balkan-flavored pop this side of the Adriatic... truly inspired - deftly segueing from staccato unison riffs to high-flying solos at the drop of a hat... SSP! is simply very talented musicians uninhibitedly exploring a music they love." –Global Rhythm
“Madcap rhythms, hyperactive horns, a sense of the absurd, and just a hint of abstract jazz... everything you could want in a record.” –All Things Considered |
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