Asphalt Orchestra

Asphalt Orchestra

...brings ambitious processional music to the mobile masses.

Asphalt Orchestra is Bang on a Can's radical new street band that brings ambitious processional music to the mobile masses. 

Since it launched with five packed shows at Lincoln Center Out of Doors in 2009, Asphalt Orchestra has won over audience members and garnered glowing reviews from The New York Times, Economist, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. 

The 12-piece group of brass and percussion re-imagines the marching band, drawing repertoire from rock, jazz and classical with captivating new arrangements of Björk, Swedish metal pioneers Meshuggah, American experimental composer Frank Zappa, and jazz legend Charles Mingus

The recording was made live-in-studio and also includes new music written for the band by Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Stew and Heidi Rodewald (The Negro Problem and Spike Lee's Passing Strange), and celebrated Balkan wedding band master Goran Bregovic.

Artists

Asphalt Orchestra
CA21066
Formats: 
CD / Digital
Release Date: 
08/03/2010