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The Flying Ballerina by Drums and Tuba
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fave it Instrumental Rock
15 tracks | 59 minutes
Released Jun 2003
on My Pal God Records
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1998. a crazy fun record. rock/jazz/a charles mingus cover as well as a minutemen song. Dabbles in Klezmer and punk rock.. lots of improvasation and oddly timed anthems.
Editorial review
Creating a musical concoction that mixes Minutemen-like arrangements with a high-school marching-band sensibility, this second volume from Drums & Tuba's Water Damage reissue series is a refreshingly unique entry into the rock canon. With Neal McKeeby lassoing guitar lines around Brian Wolff's tuba as D. Boon once did with Mike Watt's basslines, images of the Minutemen are conjured through tight grooves and sharp improvisation. Still, nothing about this band is typical, as the changing tempos of the propulsive attack in "Chummus, a Challah, and a Whole Lot of Chutzpah" creates a mournful quality, which at times seems almost akin to that of a spaghetti western. Further, the guitar seizures and somewhat progressive movements of "Blazevitch" filter early Led Zeppelin-like eeriness through Captain Beefheart dissonance. Interestingly, the breakneck rendition of Charles Mingus' "Boogie Stop Shuffle" and a faithful version of the Minutemen's "God Bows to Math" show a band that is just as comfortable paying tribute to influences. Overall, much more than a novelty, Drums & Tuba make for strangely compelling listening. ~ Matt Fink, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
The band's music sounds like a mixture of skid row jazz, carnivalesque clown tunes, classical odes, and punk rock (on The Flying Ballerina they even interpret the Minutemen's "God Bow's To Math") . They achieve this by retaining elements from multiple sources and crafting their own sound with a laid back sensibility. Box Fetish, the first CD of this collection (running time: 53 minutes), features, along with the solid drum and tuba rhythm section, the twangy and progressive guitar of Neil McKeeby, who sounds vaguely influenced by downtown NYC superstars like Marc Ribot, Arto Lindsay, and Elliot #. Together with the tight drumming of Anthony Nozero (who also doubles on alto sax), this trio builds up some playfully dour soul music for disheartened rock and rollers of the emerging 21st century.