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- Date Released: March 16, 2004
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Contemporary, Funk
- Label: Innova Recordings / IODA
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It's party time with sax player Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic) and his "stationary marching band." The RSE is from Cambridge, MA, but the sound is an appallingly successful appropriation of New Orleans brass band, '60s R&B, West African funk and old-school, gutbucket jazz. The album starts with Field's "Parade," originally written for a well-known Sesame Street bit where animated numbers parade across the screen. This version is a bit more... caffeinated, you might say. And the fun doesn't stop there. Both James Brown's "Soul Power" and the Mardi Gras classic "Iko Iko" affirm the booty-shaking objective of Field's band, and Manu Dibango's classic "Soul Makossa" — a proto-world music hit on several continents in the '70s — also gets the Snake treatment. And just to show you how truly global — no, truly universal — the urge to dance is, Field and company add "A Call To All Demons," from the Saturn-born astral jazz bandleader and composer Sun Ra.
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| 01. |  |
Parade |
5:27 |
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| 02. | |
Year Of The Snake |
2:22 |
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| 03. | |
Soul Makossa |
5:37 |
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| 04. | |
Soul Power |
5:04 |
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| 05. | |
A Call For All Demons |
6:57 |
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| 06. | |
Central Square |
5:51 |
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| 07. | |
Some Nerve |
4:29 |
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| 08. | |
El Choclo |
5:18 |
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| 09. | |
Iko Iko / Aicho |
5:43 |
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| 10. | |
I Got It |
4:25 |
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10 Total Tracks, 51:13 Total Length
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