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The Orange County-based music performance ensemble of Evan Stone and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band is a kaleidoscope of creativity. About the only art form not incorporated into its broad experiment is painting though its surreal sounds bring the famed Salvador Dali's "I don't do drugs, I am drugs," quote to mind. Dancers, magicians, jugglers and other purveyors of entertainment get in on the act during live shows. But when the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band decided to assemble its debut album Music From the Future, those elements couldn't be captured on record.

That doesn't mean the resulting effort is any less captivating or innovative.Organized into Side 1 and Side 2, Music From the Future has 10 identifiable tracks—or perhaps the whole undertaking is one long form song? Audio collages serve as transitions as the Translucent Ham Sandwich crew serves up that nasty jam band funk with biting bass lines even cholos can dip to. There's no simple verse-chorus lyrics here, only poetic pontifications about politics and deliveries of the slam variety. Prog rock and the improvisational spirit of jazz is imbued throughout proving that the translucent ones are also transcendent.The Weekly hammed it up about Music From the Future with drummer Evan Stone. Evan Stone and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band Perfect the Poetry of Futuristic Funk By Gabriel San Roman

On if the band is really facing a legal threat over their name as the album intro suggests:

The phone call on the intro to the album is actually a prank phone call that I suspected was a prank (although seemed reasonable and quite real at the time I received it) and went unclaimed for months until my friend, Gannin Arnold (Guitarist/Producer) called me to tell me it was him! Gannin plays guitar with Joe Walsh (of The Eagles) and he has his voice down pat. I looked up this guy R.C. Collins (which is what I named this track) and found some guy that had been on the Phil Hendrie show, so I couldn't quite figure out what the hell was going on. I kept the message because I knew I was going to use it in some way on the album. It seemed like the perfect way to start the album off and was in fact the catalyst for creating the environments in the segue pieces.

The name Translucent Ham Sandwich came from an episode of the Ken Burns 'Baseball' documentaries.There was a part that talked about the introduction of concession food for the first time ever at Yankee Stadium when it was first built. Before that, people brought their own lunches to the day games. There was a writer for the New York Daily News (NY Post?) that wrote about it and how great it was to finally have the convenience of food to purchase at the games. The only downside was that they were selling translucent ham sandwiches. That caught my ear and sounded funny to me. So, I thought it would make a good band name as long as nobody had it first.

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Evan Stone And The Translucent Ham Sandwich Band-album Release Party

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Evan Stone and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band (an award winning improvisational avant-garde psychedelic jam band) will release its debut album, Music From The Future on Vinyl LP and digital download only on February 26th, 2015. The album release will coincide with the performance that same evening as Evan Stone and THSB take the stage at Diego's Concert Venue in downtown Santa Ana starting at 8:30pm. Opening the show will be the group VERDELL at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:00pm ...

"Evan Stone and the Translucent Ham Sandwich Band Perfect the Poetry of Futuristic Funk" -OC WEEKLY

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