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Ralph Carney has a new musical project!  A veteran of many musical campaigns (sideman for Tom Waits, B-52’s, Oranj Symphonette; film music for Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch), Ralph is at it again, this time doubling as bandleader and horn-blower nonpareil.  And with every bite you take of Ralph’s new project, you get goodness on a bun, GUARANTEED! 

 

And why is Ralph's music so tasty?  9 out of 10 musicologists we polled said it's the unbridled joy Ralph unleashes with every toot and honk from his arsenal of horns.   (The 10^th musicologist was unavailable for comment at press time.)  This is jass music in its rawest, most unadulterated form.  This is not music designed to tickle anyone's fancy; nor is it polite parlor music from a more genteel age - no, this is music that transports one's soul to another, funkier realm where souls go to funk out and groove when they’re not being constantly monitored by their ids and super-egos.  Most of the songs on the disk have to do with love, or clouds, or boogey-woogey-woogeying, or backtracking, or other such sublime subjects.   None of the songs concern themselves with unpleasant things like home foreclosures, exorbitant dry-cleaning bills, or bedpans.  Because no one wants to funk out to a song about a dry-cleaning bill – that would be ridiculous!  For this project, Ralph has fortified himself with a crack San Francisco rhythm section, Ari Munkres on upright bass, Michael McIntosh on da keys and Randy Odell on drums and bongos. – they are a pulsing and driving rhythm section sensitive to their leader's fantastical musical wanderings.  But enough with all these words - the only way to experience Ralph’s music is to listen to it and taste the goodness on a bun for yourself!

 

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