MP3 Monica Metzler In the Timbral Hut - Oceanic

13 unique, eclectic, and flowing tracks from Oregon folkloric group, with a combination of world and cosmic folk to spontaneous jazz compositions.

13 MP3 Songs in this album (52:10) !
Related styles: Jazz: Jazz Fusion, Folk: Acid Folk, Mood: Quirky

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Details:
"The core of the group is Monica Metzler (vox, guitar, percussion), Nick Rivard (guitar, bass, percussion) and Dave Storrs (keys, urban ramblings, percussion). Additional collaborators (on the album) include Brian Meyers (sax), Chris Rorrer (cello), Heather Figi (violin) and Rob Birdwell (flugelhorn). Together they created 13 new songs with little in common to anything you've ever heard before, including several songs that were "co-constructed" on the spot."

- Nancy Raskaukas, The Gazette-Times

"The result is still surprisingly accessible, combining Metzler's reedy, lilting inflection- which always sounds as if it should be coming out of a phonograph- with Storrs' international cross-section of percussive influences and occasional bursts of discordant direction. It's as if Metzler's songs, ranging from gypsy jazz to Latin American to cosmic folk and beyond, are tossed into a primitive mixing console. Instead of dub versions, what emerges are songs in which the rigidity of the structure has been removed, allowing them to evolve with each performance, like music with active aural cultures."

-Jake Ten Pas, The Oregonian

"Still, anchoring it all is Metzler, who is reminiscent of Amy Winehouse or Sharon Jones in that she sounds as if she's leapt forward from a time when smoke lined the ceilings of darkened clubs, when music was made rather than produced. Where those performers recall vintage soul music, Metzler brings to mind classic jazz singers such as Billie Holiday or Sarah Vaughn, with a twist of Bohemian mischief."

-The Oregonian