LaBrassBanda / Fistful Of Dynamite / Gurdan Thomas
LaBrassBanda was founded in 2007 and is an ensemble of five from the lake Chiemsee in Upper Bavaria with a three piece brass section, drums and bass. Within the shortest time they gained cult status with their dynamic gigs. From St.Pauli to Moscow, from Siena to London, at Festivals like Roskilde and Rudolstadt.
LaBrassBanda’s goal is not to define Pop in a new way, they create their own new form of Pop. They just feel free to play from their perspective. The stage is wherever LaBrassBanda are – whether at Roskilde Festival, or at Chiemsee’s Reggae Summer, at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg or on the hanger of a tractor at a spontaneous trip to the EM semi finals to Vienna. The dominance of guitars was taken aside and replaced with a three piece wind player section, combined with drums and e-bass. And suddenly it was clear that even Bavarian Brass Music has the funky groove of a brass section.
Despite forward-pressing they do have moments of calmness. Not only on stage. The beat is allowed to breathe or to sink into Dub on tracks like “Ofree“ or “VW-Jetta“. While a cow bell is echoing in the background. Or you lean back and look at the sound – “NaNaNa“, “Deyda“ – like a landscape that spreads on top of a hill. The attraction of this special LaBrassBanda sound is the fusion of the contradictory. You can enjoy the club night while you have fun with everything that makes your body move & dance. Still this band will never become a puppet of any scene, never function to any coolness rules. You should not understand this as typical Bavarian stubbornness, you should rather see it as natural development of five musicians, who arranged their sound without following any requirements of the market.
‘This five-piece of three horns, drums, bass and vocals have come up with a killer combination of big riffs, Lalo Schifrin-style arrangements and all-out floor fillers. The influences in the horns flit from tex-mex mariachi in the sassy opening track, tuba-driven ska and, elsewhere, elements of New Orleans, 80s pop, the Balkans and local Bavarian polka are all thrown into the mix with equally good judgement. Forget the Gypsy compilations, the blow-hards and the soundalike orkestars and treat yourself to a pure slice of fuelinjected Süddeutsche funk’ Songlines-London
Fistful of Dynamite – Fusing Hammond Organ-Driven Funk, slap bass, G-Funk hip hop synths, stompy glam-rock attitude and tempo changes galore, this is a bad-ass band guaranteed to set the dancefloor on fire and get the party started… In Short, Fistful Of Dynamite are the infectious bundle of happy-faced talent everybodies been waiting for…
Birmingham born Musical Collective – Gurdan Thomas perform very English sounding alternative eccentric folk with a very modern marinade. Imagine a cross breed of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band and Divine Comedy. Their new album ‘The Fat Lady Sings’ comes out on Commercially Inviable records this summer. Aside from the strong catchy, yet unpredictable music is the entertainment value of seeing the group swap instruments during the set which often include Clarinet, Guitar, Ukulele, Flute, Recorder, Tuba, Trombone, Mandolin, Percussion, Bass, Piano, Charango and others.
