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fave it World Fusion | Celtic
11 tracks | 63 minutes
Released Dec 2006
on Mole Records
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:11 Tiger Mountain Special / The Last Straw lyrics BUY MP3 05:11 Tiger Mountain Special / The Last Straw lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:11 Tiger Mountain Special / The Last Straw
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:16 Oddville Cupola / Paddy on a Bun lyrics BUY MP3 06:16 Oddville Cupola / Paddy on a Bun lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:16 Oddville Cupola / Paddy on a Bun
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:17 Gasworks Park / Scatter the Mud / Ferris Eugene lyrics BUY MP3 07:17 Gasworks Park / Scatter the Mud / Ferris Eugene lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:17 Gasworks Park / Scatter the Mud / Ferris Eugene
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:33 Flight lyrics BUY MP3 04:33 Flight lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:33 Flight
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:56 The Smoke Gets in Your Ears / Iron Curtain Breakdown lyrics BUY MP3 04:56 The Smoke Gets in Your Ears / Iron Curtain Breakdown lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:56 The Smoke Gets in Your Ears / Iron Curtain Breakdown
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:54 Bear Creek / Jack Bartley's / Jig of Slurs lyrics BUY MP3 05:54 Bear Creek / Jack Bartley's / Jig of Slurs lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:54 Bear Creek / Jack Bartley's / Jig of Slurs
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:54 Frenchies / Habanera lyrics BUY MP3 04:54 Frenchies / Habanera lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:54 Frenchies / Habanera
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:40 Wind in the Hills lyrics BUY MP3 04:40 Wind in the Hills lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:40 Wind in the Hills
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:06 Sligo Creek / High Reel lyrics BUY MP3 06:06 Sligo Creek / High Reel lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:06 Sligo Creek / High Reel
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 08:36 Volga Notions / Craggy Dome / The I-5 Corridor / The Outback lyrics BUY MP3 08:36 Volga Notions / Craggy Dome / The I-5 Corridor / The Outback lyrics "GIFT MP3" 08:36 Volga Notions / Craggy Dome / The I-5 Corridor / The Outback
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:30 The Empty Place / Waltz for Anita Bartley lyrics BUY MP3 05:30 The Empty Place / Waltz for Anita Bartley lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:30 The Empty Place / Waltz for Anita Bartley
Contradance music for the critical masses.
Bio / Background
No security clearances are required to enjoy Seattle's KGB. With fiddle, mandolin, guitar and piano, KGB creates subversive music, lulling the unwary with traditional New England contradance tunes, then jumping off into Balkan modalities, tango riffs and bluesy jigs. Claude slides from growling grooves to impossible high notes on the fiddle. Dave creates percussive energy and dazzling riffs on anything with strings. Julie explores the emotional range of the keyboard from majestic to down and dirty.
Claude Ginsburg's violin melts, swings, growls, soars. He infuses KGB's music with passion, rhythm, hitting notes high on the fingerboard with power and sweetness. Claude deftly inserts elements of Klezmer, Latin American, jazz fusion and French Romantic music into New England fiddle tunes, while years of contradance playing keeps his music connected to the dancers.
Dave Bartley strikes sparks with his wicked mandolin, driving guitar and lush cittern.
↓ more ↓He glides from melody to harmony to rhythm to counterpoint, throwing in rock riffs, cross-rhythms, classical motifs and Eastern tonalities. Dave has a more long-winded biography here.
From beater pianos to concert grands, Julie King fully exploits the percussive range of seven octaves. Her piano style is driving, richly chordal, providing KGB's music with emotional tension. Julie has been the rhythmic backbone in numerous bands for over 15 years. Waiting for Snow, one of her superb waltzes, is included in The Waltz Book II. The recently published Waltz Book III contains two more of her waltzes, Flathead Lake and Call It a Night.
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