If you cultured Jobim, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, late 60's STAX, and deafening caliope music in a petri dish...

14 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Weird Jazz, WORLD: Samba



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For those of you who haven't heard this CD, you should! We're a trio from Asheville NC and we've been busy gigging and soon will offer you a brand spankin' new album with all new stuff. We also have a new drummer. Check us out the next time you're in Asheville or Charlotte NC or Greenville, Columbia or Charleston SC.



The members of Klarcnova hate jazz. Well, not really, we just think jazz has been a musician's music for way too long. It has become a music where the audience sits still and appreciates it from afar. People don't dance to it anymore. It's not fun.

We think it's high time jazz got a sense of humor.

The Members of Klarcnova hate each other. No, that's not entirely true either, let's just say they're 'artistically divergent.'

The guitarist's influences are the typical fare, Jobim, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wes Montgomery, Derek Bailey, and Charlie Hunter. Having studied jazz at a credible university his knowledge is as deep as his hazel eyes.

The bass player, now he's a strange bird. Bass did not come naturally and only after being kicked out of MENSA for wrastlin' did he abandon his true calling, ichthyology. He studied with Jeff Berlin but I'm not going to hold that against him. He claims his main influences are Gene Simmons and Peter Tork. Well, more accurately they're something like James Brown, Late 60s STAX, and Motown.

The drummer is in to all those stupid hippie jam bands. Progressing from his early djembe days he studied the stylings of Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and Tony Williams. He can do this really weird schizo thing where he plays an entire Afro-Brazilian bloco by himself. It's all we can do to get him to slow down so he can take his medicine.

When they're not fighting or drinking Klarcnova plays the best music you'd ever want to hear.