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About Sexotica
Product Description Never a band to conform, Sex Mob has consistently made music that is innovative and fresh. Their latest album, Sexotica, features original Sex Mob music in the spirit of of Martin Denny and the Exotica genre. Joined by the production team of GoodandEvil, Sex Mob has created an album featuring modern electronic production, while maintaining their usual acoustic brilliance. The result is an acoustic-electric mindbender of an album that represents the best parts of both mediums. Sexotica is an entertaining ride, carrying with it a sense of humor, unique sonic production and an overall feeling of exuberance. In June of 2005, Sex mob displayed their new album's concept for thousands, headlining opening night of New York City's legendary Summerstage concert series. With solid compositions and interesting twists throughout the record, Sex mob is clearly forwarding their mission of making jazz music engaging and fun. Amazon.com Sex Mob has delighted in tweaking and twisting the jazz idiom for the better part of a decade, with blatant disregard for all that is pure. It's not surprising, then, that Steven Bernstein and company would dive into the tropical waters of exotica, a lounge sound relentlessly mocked by "serious" jazz connoisseurs; in fact, it's a perfect fit. Billed as an "electro-acoustic fantasy inspired by Martin Denny," Sexotica is playful, mysterious, and seductive, yet it's anything but easy listening. After the band--Bernstein (slide trumpet), Briggan Krauss (sax), Tony Scherr (acoustic bass and guitar), and Kenny Wollesen (percussion), with guest Mike Dillon on tablas--laid the initial tracks, producers Danny Blume and Chris Castagno, who do business as GoodandEvil, were given the opportunity to slice and dice. The duo's electronic tomfoolery takes an already adventurous ensemble and pushes them out even further, to a place where the primal and the postmodern intermingle. Bernstein and Krauss offer some appealingly snaky horn lines throughout, and the mood often calls to mind the "jungle sound" of early Ellington--modernized for the 21st century. Oddly enough, in exotica Sex Mob has found a style that's stout enough to accommodate their most exploratory tendencies. --Marc Greilsamer Review Sex Mob is the courageous, ingenious, invigorating canvas on which bandleader Steven Bernstein paints mad jazz for the masses...everything you could ask for in genre-defying, up-to-the-minute jazz... --Popmatters Sexotica is Sex Mob's homage to Martin Denny and the sound of Exotica, but don't go in expecting a Quiet Village. Instead, it seems like the idea was to create their own very personal soundworld, much the way Denny did, but using different tools and sounds. In many ways, it's just another step in a logical progression for Sex Mob. They've never been afraid of using studio tricks; previous releases were co-produced by Scotty Hard who added some of his own sonic treatments, but this time out the entire album is a full-on collaboration between the production team of Good and Evil (Danny Blume and Christian Castagno) and the band, where the music and production are practically equal players. The tunes were recorded live in the studio (first or second takes), with Kenny Wollesen overdubbing various percussion. Then the tapes were simply handed over to Blume and Castagno to do what they wanted, keeping in mind leader Steven Bernstein's admonition to divide the sound about equally between the band tracks and the production. It's a trippy and sometimes confusing mix of organic instrumentation and production techniques that often makes it difficult to figure out who's doing what. There are Briggan Krauss' saxophones, Bernstein's slide trumpet, Tony Scherr on bass, and Wollesen's drums and percussion (all of which may or may not be treated), but there's also scratching, samples, bits of studio chatter, crazy stereo panning, rhythm boxes and programming, dub techniques, and bits of sonic flotsam and jetsam that all weave in and out through the mix. Oh yeah, it grooves like crazy too, from the tribal "Pygmy Suite" to the slinky "Quiet" to the ferocious ending of "7 Bars." Bernstein and Krauss are both wonderfully deranged players when they want to be, and there's some nice soloing on Sexotica, but it's more about feel and mood on this album than soloing. Sex Mob's mission has always been to bring jazz back into the popular mainstream, not as a museum piece but as music of the people: dance music, the way it was before the business of music took precedence over the music. They play loose, they play fun, and they play to make you move. There's never been a jazz album that sounded like this, but Sex Mob have been in a league of their own for some time now. Jazz purists will hate it, but that's part of the fun too. If you've got an ear for adventurous jazz and a good groove, make travel plans to go to Sex Mob's land of Sexotica. It's quite a trip. --All Music Guide Sex Mob prides itself on keep
