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Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias
Hungry March Band
Label: Self Released
Released: 2007
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Tracks
Bag Search; Push It; Gde Si, Bre?; Blasted; Happy Time (The Clam); The Beach; Whole Hog; Red Box; Emergencia; A Cup of Coffee, A Sandwich, and You; Kradical; Hyottoko; Socialist March
Personnel
Hungry March Band
band / ensemble / orchestraJason Candler
saxophone, altoAlbum Description
Brass band music with punk attitude, appropriate for dancing, rioting, getting married, or quitting one's job. -
The fourth album from the Hungry March Band is a 13-track manifesto of the brass band as social utopia.
What are the mathematics of paradise? What algorithm, when followed to excess, is guaranteed to produce
not just astonishment, but an existential division of Before and After? Or, even trickier, what magic
combination will lift the moment out of its ordinary context just long enough to make the wedding stick, or
bury the old friend, or change the attitude at a demonstration, and meanwhile always seduce the audience?
Surely one such algorithm involves a bunch of horns and drums pounding out a set of vibrations so
complicated, yet so catchy, that a guarantee of total transformation is not only possible, but unavoidable!
This may sound like a tall claim, but it is the only reasonable explanation for why the Hungry March Band
remains in constant demand on their home turf in New York City, a place where every nook and corner
already resonates with the machinations of symbolic capital. The marvelous inefficiency of the Brass Band,
and the studied surrealism of the Hungry March Band in particular, are a secret tool for the production of
momentary paradise, perfectly captured in Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias.
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