I will be very surprised if this concert is not in my top 10 for 2009. Having been around for the last 10 years they are rightly now coming to prominence after exposure from the highly succesful film Little Miss Sunshine having written and performed the majority of the soundtrack and nominated for a much coveted Grammy. They have such a unique sound with influences ranging from Mariachi of Mexico to Romany of Eastern Europe. Nick Urata has a voice that is smoother than a hard boiled egg and his ability to sing, play guitar and theremin at the same time would get him thrown out of any left wing jobs-worth orchestra as would all of his colleagues. They all seem to be multi-taskers; Tom Hagerman plays violin, accordion, and piano - Jeanie Schroder sings, plays sousaphone and double bass; and Shawn King plays percussion and trumpet.
Their latest album A Mad and Faithful 
Telling is packed full of tunes that will not get out of your head, tracks like The Clockwise Witness which has a beat in the middle that just drives you crazy (in a good way) every time you hear it! For me I prefer the Mariachi / Southern States sound reminding me very much of Calexico at their best but that is being over critical as there was nothing in this concert that I did not enjoy.
Telling is packed full of tunes that will not get out of your head, tracks like The Clockwise Witness which has a beat in the middle that just drives you crazy (in a good way) every time you hear it! For me I prefer the Mariachi / Southern States sound reminding me very much of Calexico at their best but that is being over critical as there was nothing in this concert that I did not enjoy. This is another band you just have to see as their performances are just as good live as they are on disc; a band very much in demand as was proved by the Brits who travelled to Mallorca especially to see them as for some reason the UK is not on their tour schedule.
Great concert and as said earlier, sure to be a top 10 in 2009!
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