Tape Five - Tonight Josephine

Driving Electro-Swing action with 'Oscar feeling' conversations of clarinet and trumpet inspired by Louis Armstrong, Gene Krupa, Josephine Baker and Benny Goodman. The 3rd album from TAPE FIVE 'Tonight Josephine!' is another Retro-Homage to various facets from the 20th Century bar-music. Stop Press! The first half of the album is deeply inspired by the Golden Twenties. High calibre and style, like a black-and-white classic film, but coloured and varied like today's block-busters. Four different vocalists - Brenda Boykin, Iain Mackenzie, Henrik Wagner and Yuliet Topaz interpret new songs in the old styles.

01. Tape Five - Introduction Back In Time (0:22) 02. Tape Five - A Cool Cat In Town (feat. Brenda Boykin) (3:54) 03. Tape Five - Bad Boy Good Man (feat. Henrik Wager) (4:17) 04. Tape Five - Pantaloons (feat. Yuliet Topaz) (3:42) 05. Tape Five - Dixie Biscuit (feat. Henrik Wager) (3:48)
06. Tape Five - Madame Coquette (feat. Yuliet Topaz) (3:42) 07. Tape Five - Far Far Away Charles Tone (Charles-Tone mix feat. Brenda Boykin) (4:04) 08. Tape Five - Intermezzo Speakeasy (0:32) 09. Tape Five - The Flappers Delight (feat. Yuliet Topaz) (3:43) 10. Tape Five - Birds Like It (feat. Iain Mackenzie) (4:19) 11. Tape Five - Pousse L'Amour (feat. Yuliet Topaz) (4:01) 12. Tape Five - The Smurf (Tape Five Remix instr.) (3:40) 13. Tape Five - The Sky Is Not The Limit (feat. Iain Mackenzie) (4:09) 14. Tape Five - Alcazar (instr.) (4:38)

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Lorraine Feather - New York City Drag

Lorraine takes it upon herself to compose lyrics to classic instrumental Fats Waller Rags. It's like stumbling onto a treasure trove of standards, that amazingly were written just recently. Her lyrics and vocal performances can't be matched. The tunes are at once moody and evocative "New York City Drag", hilarious "You're Outta Here" (which is an instant classic) and modern and witty "Too Good Looking". Special mention must be paid to her wonderful musical support -- the amazing Dick Hyman and Mike Lang and all the others.

Tracklist:
1. You're Outta Here (based on "The Minor Drag") 2:45 2. Too Good Lookin' (based on "Blue Black Bottom") 4:00 3. California Street (based on"Bond Street") 3:37 4. Gal on the Side Part II - She's Gettin' Some (based on "Gladyse") 3:21 5. In Living Black and White (based on "Numb Fumblin") 4:30 6. Alligator (based on "Valentine Stomp") 3:05 7. Timeless Rag (based on "Viper's Drag") 3:22 8. Gal on the Side Part I - The Garden Gate (based on "African Ripples") 4:08 9. New York City Drag (based on "Clothes Line Ballet") 3:34 10. Jukebox (based on "Fractious Fingering") 2:35 11. You and Yours (based on "Chelsea") 3:58 12. Cézanne (based on "Smashing Thirds") 3:06

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Diablo Swing Orchestra Sing-Along Songs for the Damned & Delirious

Opening the set with “A Tap Dancer’s Dilemma,” Diablo Swing Orchestra quickly shows the revelers why they are one of the more interesting musical units banging around the countryside. It’s a song filled with so many huge musical movements that I’m sure I’ll pass over more than a handful in describing the epic piece of sonic art. The opening drum salvo and subsequent groove of bass with accompanying horn section capture the swing in the band’s name. Add the huge walls of distorted guitars and the harmonizing female vocals, and this song captures the imagination by transporting the listener to some deep dark corner, the seediest of the seedy jazz clubs of the 1940’s. The composition of this track is absolutely, hands down, one of the most impressive and compelling pieces that I’ve ever listened to. I mean, listen to how the band seamlessly shifts from over dramatic male vocal performances, to harmonized female vocals, dropping all of the instrumentation out of the mix and leaving the guitar, acoustic nonetheless, hanging for a brief, yet brilliant moment, then dropping the instrumentation again to leave the bass guitars to deftly reach out and grab all of the instruments back into the fold. Listen for the fantastic guitar solo being played over the more subtle jazz rhythms, and then how the guitar fades out, leaving nothing but bass rumbling its groove. The incorporation of the various instruments leaves me breathless. How in God’s name did they patch this bad boy together and make the whole thing work?

And, it’s not just the first track on the album. Diablo Swing Orchestra creates and re-creates this same musical effect on all ten tracks gracing Sing Along Songs. “A Rancid Romance” starts off with a classically distorted wall of guitars powering out the rhythms in time with the fabulously produced drums. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, the triumphant strains of a trumpet screams through the din, providing a bit of a Latin flair to the music. And then another trumpet harmonizes with the first . . . and then the operatic vocals of Annlouice Wolgers (?) in duet with guitarist/vocalist, Daniel Hakansson . . . and then the emergence of the cello providing an air of macabre . . . and then the dual vocal harmonies at the chorus creating an overwhelming sense of panic . . . and then horns again . . . It’s a psychotic journey of paranoia and superb musicianship. Owing as much to classical music as modern metal, Diablo Swing Orchestra have created a sound that is clearly their own. It’s refreshing to hear a new and unique, and utterly compelling voice in the world of music!

'A Tapdancer's Dilema', 'A Rancid Romance', 'Lucy Fears The Morning Star', 'Bedlam Sticks', 'New World Widows', 'Siberian Love Affairs', 'Vodka Inferno', 'Memoirs Of A Roadkill', 'Ricerca Dell’anima', 'Stratosphere' Serenade'.

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