HAMSTER THEATRE Carnival Detournement
Description
Hamster Theatre is co-led by multi-instrumentalists Dave Willey and Jon Stubbs, who composed the tunes and handled the majority of the instruments. But they are joined here by 10 additional guests, including guitarist Mike Johnson & reedist Mark Harris, who play with Dave in Thinking Plague. The result is the richest-sounding Hamster Theatre recording to date, featuring a wide variety of instrumentation, musical sources, and styles in a number of charming and accessible instrumental tunes. There are echoes here of a wide geographic, social, and chronological range of music: carnival and theatre music, European avant/progressive composers and bands, most notably L'Ensemble Raye & Nimal, 20th century French composers ranging from Satie and Ravel to Albert Marcoeur and Lars Hollmer, folk music forms from across the continent and sidewalk cafe musings from Eastern Europe. The end result – an early 21st century folk fusion – is pure Hamster Theatre.
Titles
1. Vermilion Hue over Lake Lausanne (6:05)
2. What Makes You Thinbk This Is a Goods Place to Bring a Date? (3:04)
3. Les Funfs (3:39)
4. Jeanne-Marie (3:33)
5. The Beach (1:34)
6. Bur Di Lie Town So (4:21)
7. The Caspian (1:18)
8. Fanfare (0:44)
9. Vang Vang (4:22)
10. Bug 2: The History of the United States (4:07)
11. Tick Fever (2:29)
12. The Turn of Events (3:57)
13. TH Ecarrot Is a Hologram (1:44)
14. Drunken Penguin Tango (1:34)
15. The Cat Song (2:24)
16. A Relucant Farewell (4:35)
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