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| Frantic Turtle & The Sway Machinery at Cornelia St. Cafe The new Jewish Avant-Garde group, Frantic Turtle & The Sway Machinery (Jake Marmer, vocals; David Keesey, vocals, guitar; Ely G, drums; Jeremiah Lockwood, vocals, guitar; Tomer Tzur, drums; Antibalas Horn Section), will perform Sunday, June 25 at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC. Frantic Turtle & The Sway Machinery will present two sets of rock- blues, jazz-poetry, and dostoyevsky on speed. The Sway Machinery: Hidden Melodies of the Jews of New York City Longtime collaborators Jeremiah Lockwood (Balkan Beat Box, Carolina Slim) and Tomer Tzur (Beat the Donkey, Pharaoh's Daughter) team up with friends from Antibalas to present an audacious descent into the depths of Jewish soul music. Calling upon the sounds of Malian guitars, Saharan beats, Afro-pop horns and the blues, The Sway Machinery goes knocking at the gates of prayer with muscles swollen and eyes clenched. Frantic Turtle: a spoken-word / punk project a-la Velvet Underground. The midrashic poetics, instantenous interpretations from verbal semantics to music and back, and the raspy russinalising funk. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |