Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones
Long one of Boston's musical gems, The Fully Celebrated (Orchestra) have always been Jim Hobbs: alto sax, Timo Shanko: bass, and Django Carranza: drums. A jazz band playing the rock clubs like the young punks they were, developing along the way into the sages they have become. Following a series of European and self-releases, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones is their auspicious AUM Fidelity debut: a stellar set of all new compositions, recorded live in the studio and then mixed utilizing the latest dub technology. The album (as the group itself) cannot be stylistically pegged as each piece is a fully different / fully realized aural experience of transformative and deep tail-feather-shaking potential. Principal composer/band leader Jim Hobbs is an untouchably gifted master of the alto saxophone; he impeccably produces a holy / wholly cogent array of sounds from his horn which the instrument was not originally designed to manifest. The Fully Celebrated band here wield an incomparable arsenal of ways and means to transform yr present moment through mighty song and trio massage. Joyous bounce and sway, punkolodic riffage, mesmerizing incantation/cosmic groove & the stone flux title cut version of the classic Stalag riddim, dubfully rendered in Brooklyn on the eve of Election ‘08 with dew of ‘09 in mind. The CD also contains an embedded music video: the animated skateboard groove and flex film "Can You Do The Mackie Burnette?" which also features cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, who was a member of The FCO for a time at the dawn of this century. Joy is the aim; celebrate fully! Steven Joerg
Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones
Long one of Boston's musical gems, The Fully Celebrated (Orchestra) have always been Jim Hobbs: alto sax, Timo Shanko: bass, and Django Carranza: drums. A jazz band playing the rock clubs like the young punks they were, developing along the way into the sages they have become. Following a series of European and self-releases, Drunk on the Blood of the Holy Ones is their auspicious AUM Fidelity debut: a stellar set of all new compositions, recorded live in the studio and then mixed utilizing the latest dub technology. The album (as the group itself) cannot be stylistically pegged as each piece is a fully different / fully realized aural experience of transformative and deep tail-feather-shaking potential. Principal composer/band leader Jim Hobbs is an untouchably gifted master of the alto saxophone; he impeccably produces a holy / wholly cogent array of sounds from his horn which the instrument was not originally designed to manifest. The Fully Celebrated band here wield an incomparable arsenal of ways and means to transform yr present moment through mighty song and trio massage. Joyous bounce and sway, punkolodic riffage, mesmerizing incantation/cosmic groove & the stone flux title cut version of the classic Stalag riddim, dubfully rendered in Brooklyn on the eve of Election ‘08 with dew of ‘09 in mind. The CD also contains an embedded music video: the animated skateboard groove and flex film "Can You Do The Mackie Burnette?" which also features cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum, who was a member of The FCO for a time at the dawn of this century. Joy is the aim; celebrate fully! Steven Joerg