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Event
Banda de Los Muertos with Mariachi Flor de Toloache at Pioneer Works. Friday Sept. 18th.
"Jacob and I want to dedicate this album to all of the immigrants, like my parents, who came to the United States from Mexico to start a new life, but who held on to their memories and to the music that they loved." Oscar Noriega
For the past twenty years, Brooklyn residents Oscar Noriega and Jacob Garchik have kept busy in the jazz and classical world but a few years back, both Oscar and Jacob came to be obsessed with the brass band music of Sinaloa the Mexican state now better known for El Chapo than its musical output. Oscar, the son of Mexican immigrants, felt a nostalgic connection to the music of his parents. Jacob, who had no prior knowledge of the music, first heard it on a Mexican jukebox and was isntantely fascinated by the intricate arrangements, the dexterity of the brass players and the astounding virtuosity of its sousaphone players.
Realizing that there was no traditional Banda in Brooklyn, they decided to start their own. They wrote new arrangements, Jacob practiced sousaphone and they enlisted some of their musician friends, most of them players familiar to jazz audiences: Chris Speed, Jim Black, Curtis Hasselbring, Brian Drye, Ben Holmes Justin Mullens as well as French Horn player Rachel Drehmann and singer Mireya Ramos, of Mariachi Flor de Toloache fame.
Soon, Banda de Los Muertos was attracting an audience made up of Brass aficionados and Mexicans as well as kudos from the mother of all Mexican Brass Bands: Banda el Recodo.
Banda de Los Muertos' debut album is a tribute to the early years of the genre, but also a re-interpretation of the Banda tradition. The band stresses the intricacies of the original music over the more hook-driven new hits that hold favor on contemporary Mexican radio stations. Jacob and Oscar's original arrangements have a big band flavor that relies on the precise ensemble playing but without ever giving in to the temptation of esoteric jazz improvisation. Banda de Los Muertos plays popular music the kind of music you're supposed to get married and break up to.
At Pioneer Works, the ten piece brass band will celebrate its new release with the help of their friends Mariachi Flor de Toloache - whose leader, Mierya Ramos, also happens to sing with La Banda..
And as the date pretty much coincides with Mexican Independence Day (sept 16th), the event will be an all around celebration of Mexico and Mexican culture in the US, complete with mexican food in Pioneer's amazing garden as well as very special guests tba.
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LocationPioneer Works (View)
159 Pioneer St
Brooklyn, NY 11231
United States
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