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LaBrassBanda

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Horn-toting Bavarian funk force

The brass band tradition doesn't start and finish in the colliery towns of South Yorkshire. It's a worldwide phenomenon, its branches reaching out to the Balkans, West Africa and, of course, New Orleans. LaBrassBanda is the Bavarian contribution to the cause and, from where we're listening, a mightily impressive contribution it is too. Described by Songlines as "fuel-injected Suddeutsche funk", the sound of this hard-blowing five-piece is furious, frantic and, at when some dubby touches are employed around the edges, even a little futuristic. At times they might also lean on hip-hop and ska, but - while they draw from far and wide - these Bavarian boys don't forget where they're from, eager to recast and redefine stereotypes and expectations. "Homeland is not a nostalgic exhibit," they declare. "You can only feel it when the intuition for your own roots reaches out to the new and feels happy as a pig in shit."

(Biography by Nige Tassell 2010)

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