Moonshine

Dave Douglas - Moonshine

Moonshine
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Artist: Dave Douglas
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Music Label: Koch Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Dog Star
  2. Moonshine
  3. Married Life
  4. Silent Stars
  5. Scopes
  6. Flood Plane
  7. Kitten
  8. Tough

Free Music Notes for Moonshine

Free Music Review: Keystone group expands
Hit: 5 Stars

Overview:
Moonshine brings back the same group from Douglas's 2005 release Keystone. The muse once again is the film work of Fatty Arbuckle. However, unlike the original Keystone recording this album is not intended to be a "soundtrack" to an Arbuckle film. This allows the artists more freedom explore different sounds and really opens things up for turn table artist DJ Olive who has a much more active role on this CD than he did on Keystone. Each of the tracks is inspired by different Fatty Arbuckle films, which make the tracks on this album much more diverse than Keystone. The album is a hybrid live/studio album. It was recorded live at an Irish radio station, but the live work was then edited in a studio. The end result is an album that has much of the interesting sounds and moods of Keystone, but offers a greater variety of songs.

Songs Highlights:
Kitten - As Dave points out in his liner notes... "Kitten breathes fire". The track opens up with something that sounds like a heavy metal riff. I'm not sure how they were able to create that sound without an electric guitar, but it gets the motor going on this fast and furious track. Douglas, Saxaphonist Marcus Strickland, and keyboardist Adam Benjamin take turns with one shredding solo after another.

Tough - This track begins with a repetitive break beat by DJ Olive. The track reminds me a bit of the hip hop/jazz fusion Cataloop by US3. Very catchy.

Moonshine - The title track sounds a lot like a funkified version of Coltrane's Giant Steps. The main theme seems to borrow a small segment of the giant steps melody. Strickland's solo on this track is just ferocious and reminds me of Joe Henderson's Caribbean Fire Dance. Douglas also has some really choice wails and yelps on this track.

Dog Star - The first track on the CD bears the most resemblance to the original Keystone effort. If you like the first release of Keystone you'll love this track.

Moonshine, is another fine effort by Douglas and team. Highly recommended.

Moonshine Poster

Moonshine is the 2008 album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territoy. Rolling Stone called Keystone's 2005's self titled album, 'a modernist requiem'. Moonshine takes it a step further; a modernist recipe for the future sound of electronics jazz, and new composition. This groundbreaking release represents a new step in the synthesis of electronic music and jazz. 'I think of it as Green Beat,' says Douglas with a grin, referring to the organic way that the rhythms of vinyl, laptop, and drum set coalesce in this infectious, grooving new album. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Moonshine is that the basis for this recording was a single performance in front of a live studio audience.

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