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Vjerin Cocek
Critcal Brass

Jupanese Juju
Critical Brass

Disco Bangra
Live - Roma, Italy

Hungry March Band's CD's on line at CD Baby

HMB Discography

"Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias," (produced by Grammy-winner Danny Blume, and co-produced by Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party) presents a phenomenal collection of original songs as wild and eclectic as the band itself. The HMB specializes in surprise radical encounters that transform the mundane into the miraculous. "Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias"" set the tempo for a week of hi-jinks & pranks, HMB's Seven Days of 23 minute Utopias, destined to explode in music and create utopias throughout New York City, resulting in widespread surprise and joy along with a few tickets for disturbing the peace.
Our fourth release Critical Brass, is a blistering treatment of worldly beats echoing the streets of New York; from covers of Bollywood soundtracks, Sun Ra, and Ellington, to raucous Gypsy dance music and even Black Sabbath. Critical Brass also contains original compositions from band members covering a broad array of genres. HMB's signature sound can be heard on such recordings as the sensual "Montserrat Serrat", the swinging "Jupanese Juju", the swirling "Vjerin Cocek" and the grooving "Bumper to Bumper". Produced by the Hungry March Band & Jason Candler, Critical Brass was recorded in June of 2004, days after the group returned from its first European tour. Recorded at Loho Studios on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Critical Brass features the splendid artwork of local artist Troy Frantz.
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The second release, On the Waterfront , is dedicated to the endangered slice of home turf carved out of the embattled vacant lot we fondly refer to as The Peoples Park, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The East River site is currently surrounded by fencing, locked up awaiting its fate. This vanishing wildness has been the location of the HMB's weekly rehearsals for 5 years and has also hosted demolished cars, fishermen, public art, virulent urban plant life, homeless immigrants, skateboarders and has been a oasis for this vital NYC neighborhood.

The CD was recorded in Williamsburg with John Gurrin as engineer. Cover art by the acclaimed LES activist artist FLY. It is available at Other Music in Manhattan, Earwax and Clovis Books in Williamsburg, On-line at CD Baby and directly from the band.

Our virgin debut, Hungry March Band Official Bootleg, (released in 2001) consists of a series of live recordings as well as studio mixes and is considered a historical reference for exercises in wind, percussion and fluid dynamics. Recorded at the original Rubulad Studios in a basement on South Sixth Street in Williamsburg Brooklyn as well as in the surrounding environment of toxic decay.

You can obtain CD's on line at CD Baby
or directly from the band at HMB Merchandise

 

Compilations

Mehanata New York Gypsymania 2005 -Bubamara & Choli Ke Peeche
purchase: mehanata on CD Baby or from the band at a show
Sorryeverybody.com 2005 - Disco Bhangra - version recorded May 21, 2004 @ 3am in San Lorenzo, Rome, at Sbandata Romana Festival by Mario Camporeale. Purchase online or at a shows

LES Garden Compilation 2005 - coming out later this year.

Sbandata Romana Festival Compilation 2004- Sold Out

Musical Repertoire

Our musical repertoire consists of original compositions written by band members as well as scores selected from our multi-cultural world community. These songs include tunes from Balkan Brass Bands, New Orleans street bands, European brass bands, brass bands of India, the jazz world and the global community of NYC. The list you see here will surely be in need of an update, as we are constantly working on new material and inventing tunes to keep you dancing!

For your aural pleasure...

Bag Search
Push it
Gde si, Bre?
Blasted
Happy Time (The Clam)
The Beach
Whole Hog
Red Bog
Bubamara
Hyottoko
Kradical
Barat (from Moonsoon Wedding)
Magnificent Seven
Blood Sugar
Bumper to Bumper
Underground
Disco Bangra
Con Amigos
St. James Infirmary
Choli Ke Peeche
Asphalt Tango
Bella Ciao
Jupanese Ju Ju
Short Fat Pig
Disko dzumbus
Pig Bag
Christine Keeler (Comin Home Baby)
Don Cosmic
Vjerin Cocek
Blue Pepper
Montserrat Serrat
The Topsy Song
Snakie
Tetra
Haitian Fight Song
Triplicate
Slow Retarde


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