MP3 Casey Mensing & Jubano! - The March of the Tongue Brigade

A collaboration between a poet from Honolulu and a musician from Nashville. The music is experimental yet grounded in melody - carefully crafted to compliment the words. This unique collection is unlike any spoken word album that has come before. Really.

8 MP3 Songs in this album (42:48) !
Related styles: AVANT GARDE: Experimental, SPOKEN WORD: Poetry

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Details:
JUBANO! is a music project by Carl Polgar. It is his outlet for all the ideas that don't fit within the general framework of the pop band that he is in (Paris Street). Though things tend to veer towards the experimental, a strong melody remains as the central focus on most of these songs.

This project is a companion piece to Casey Mensing's book of poetry, Love Is A Ghost Thing. In May of 2008, Carl flew to Honolulu and recorded Casey reading several of his poems. Over the course of the following year, Carl added music to these recordings.

The fruits of this labor is an 8-track album called The March Of The Tongue Brigade, named after a little-known group of Civil War soldiers who met an unfortunate fate atop Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. The album incorporates a wide range of instruments - keys, mandolin, trumpet, melodica, voice, plastic bags, guitar, and more - along with computer-manipulated loops and samples of various sounds, including sneezes, snow shovels, and even an orgasm. The main focus throughout, though, are Casey's words.