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lePercolateur: Pop Manouche

Read "Pop Manouche" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Something different and exciting is brewing on lePercolateur's Pop Manouche. This Chicago-based, Hot Club-indebted outfit finds a way to blend the sonic sensibilities of Django Reinhardt's famed band into an alt- pop/alt-folk/alt-instrumental format on their debut album, creating something unique in the process; it's as if songstress Sam Phillips, the beyond-category Pink Martini, indie folk band Hem, Reinhardt, and a few other unlikely collaborators got together to make some music. The core instrumentation--violin, multiple guitars and bass--immediately ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Pop Manouche

Chicago Sessions
2013

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