Summary
Afrobeat conglomerate Rubblebucket Orchestra are one of the most exciting groups to come out of Boston in recent memory. Their co-leaders are the amorously linked duo of trumpeter [Alex Toth] and vocalist Kalmia Traver - both University of Vermont grads and members of renowned funk act John Brown's Body, as well as former Burlington krunk-jazz outfit The Lazybirds. The 10-piece Orchestra thumbs its nose at the well-worn conventions of jazz-fusion, instead drawing on influences both traditional (FeIa Kuti) and unpredictable (Bjork). The result is a genremashing maelstrom of hot-blooded West African funk rhythms and scorching soul melodies unlike anything that's come before it.
Then in July, I didn't have that much freelance stuff going on and The Lazybirds were kind of on their way out because they're all up in Vermont and we're in Boston now. I just decided I wanted to put together a big band based on the Afrobeat framework.Recording live limits the ability to manipulate stuff in the studio. But we did a fair amount of stuff in post-production and with overdubs, which I'm happy about. I don't want it to be this sprawling, jammy Afrobeat thing. I don't want the band to be that, and I definitely didn't want the album to sound like this live, sprawling thing. So we were really careful about editing it and probably could have edited even a bit more than we did.See the full content of this document
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Kickin' the Bucket
An interview with Burlington ex-pat Alex Toth
Afrobeat conglomerate Rubblebucket Orchestra are one of the most exciting groups to come out of Boston in recent memory. Their co-leaders are the amorously linked duo of trumpeter Alex Toth and vocalist Kalmia T...See the full content of this document
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