Pacific Mambo Orchestra | ar

4 piece band from Liege, Belgium Bouncy quartet from belgium made up of members of Casse Brique, Volt Voice or Frank Shinobi, Mambo combines sonic energy with time-signature-laden mathematical rhythms. As you will hear, their influences dip into The Redneck Manifesto and Honey for Petzi keeping nonetheless a highly identifiable trademark. Currently working on new tunes, Mambo has just released a 10-track instrumental album, “Bertier”, available both as a download or LP. Give it a spin urgently, it might well be the new sensation out of HH-stamped productions this year! Matthieu Charray (guitar) Julien Conti (guitar) Thomas Dardenne (bass) Fabian...

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is an influential Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. They are renowned as a major influence in popular music, and for pioneering the electropop music genre. The principal members are Haruomi Hosono (bass), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards). The band was originally conceived as a one-off studio project by Hosono, the other two members being recruited session musicians - the idea was to produce an album fusing orientalist exotica (cf their cover version of Martin Denny's Firecracker) with modern electronics. However the first album (with its cutting-edge production) was very popular, and the studio...

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Fragmentorchestra is the pairing of Italian jazz aficionados Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. The result is a beautiful and up-tempo album of moods and grooves for some autumnal bliss. For Luca and Giulio, Jazz also means improvisation, which Luca Pernici explains. "A musician, in the moment at which improvisation occurs, is irrationally set free from any approach, creating a philosophy of composition without any given time or place". The goal is just this, to preserve an improvised approach through breaking down beats and notes but still achieving the variety of an orchestra or better yet, a Fragment Orchestra... Luca Pernici...

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Pacific 231 is a long run project from Pierre Jolivet originally from Paris, France, who is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Pacific 231 belongs to the first wave of music in the industrial / power electronics fields. His works now explore the very limit of sound and space. Official site: http://pacific231.com 2) Pacific 231 is a duo from Japan, formed by Shigeomi Hasumi and Takemasa Miyake. They released "Miyashiro" and the original soundtrack for the film "Bright Future". 3) Pacific 231 is a duo formed by Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt. They...