What about your A5's?
What about your A5's?
Wow! She's good and what a stretch...I'm jealous ...I'll bet I can Play "Kentucky Mandolin" better than her though! Nanner, nanner, nanner!here's a lovely caprice played by sara from belgium:
I think all of the women (Turid Jørgensen, Solveig Heilo, Marianne Sveen og Anne Marit Bergheim ) in Katzenjammer can play mandolin. They play domra, mandolin, ukes, guitars, banjos, even a balalaika bass.
This band is from Norway, and their first CD will be out in August 2009. Mandolin is a featured instrument, but they are NOT bluegrass. David Byrne (of Talking Heads fame) seems to be helping them break internationally.
Some video clips:
Larry
Larry I liked the second video a lot. Thanks. I bet they're a stitch live.
Jamie
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That contrabass balalaika with the Cheshire Cat graphics is the coolest instrument I've seen for a while -- and that groove they have going on in Ain't no thang is hot.
I also got a kick out of their instruments page:
(And not too many artists still include a mellotron in their credits anymore.)
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Good find! These gals is ca-razy!!! I wholeheartedly agree with you Jim - that groove in "Ain't No Thang" is hot hot hot - a whole 'nother somethin' - and live, in a boat, recorded from - on shore? On board? Huh? Outstanding! (And standing up in a boat ...) Katzenjammer, eh? Pussycat Dolls have got nothing on them! WOW!!! This is the wildest, coolest, funnest group I've heard since ... oh yeah, Totally Gourdgeous.
Apparently us Americans just missed them - they were at Bonnaroo last weekend, and that Mercury Lounge date was just this past Tuesday. They are flying in for a Fourth of July show at Milwaukee's Summerfest, then flying back to Norway. I'd like to have a word with their manager! Their CD is available online, if you can't wait for the international release.
There's a group that comes around here once or twice a year, rockabilly quartet from Russia called "Red Elvises," and the bass player plays one of these balalaika basses. But I don't know anybody who plays a trumpet/violin ...
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Here are some pics of the Katzenjammers in action. Looks like they switch around their instruments a lot!
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You can download the CD, Le Pop, at amazon, as well as one free track from that CD.
Caution: there are several artists with similar names at amazon, so make sure you hunt for Katzenjammer, not DJ Katzenjammer, The Katzenjammers, or Katzenjammer Kabaret -- although the latter, a Souxie-esque band from France, is pretty cool.
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Thanks for the tip! And it's true - there are Katzenjammers, and then there are Katzenjammers. We're talking about the quartet from Norway, not the piano-playing duo from England.
BTW, on the studio version, the lead on "Ain't No Thang" is played on banjo, not mandolin - yet another reason I like the live version ...
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The trumpet violin or Stroh Violin doesn't get much use anymore (other than recording onto wax cylinders) but there are a couple Café members who own and loan them...
Jamie
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hey jim mcdaniel, where did you find the cool instruments page and those cool avatars. i found lots of music videos but not those things...
eric
Eric H
Aloha a hui hou
mandolin no ka 'oi
oops i just found it on larry shermans post
never mind.....
Eric H
Aloha a hui hou
mandolin no ka 'oi
Oh, I guess you weren't asking about my avatar after all. <sniff>
(Just in case you were though, it is Marin Mersenne's circle of fifths, c. 1648.)
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jim, circle of fifths is a very nice avator
Eric H
Aloha a hui hou
mandolin no ka 'oi
The instruments are from the Katzenjammers website - not their myspace page.
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What? No Hardingfele? No nyckelharpa? If only Annbjorg Lien would sit in with Katzenjammer ...
Eric Gorfain of the Section Quartet performs with a Stroh-violin now and then.
Emando.com: More than you wanted to know about electric mandolins.
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Lee Saterfield with Nancy Griffith
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Now there's a band! Maybe not flashy, but solid, in synch, with loads of talent ...
Bumped into Pete & Maura Kennedy down here a couple of years ago - just being tourists. Really nice people, and a great duo.
Not finding any photos of Lee with mandolin, but here's an interesting one from a few years ago, a band shot with someone else on mandolin, someone well known in these parts ...
LOST IN THE SHUFFLE c. 1982 (Dusty Clampitt, Michael Maffeo, Mike Pearl, John McGann, Lee Satterfield)
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Don't see too many mandolin players fingerpicking their instruments like Nanci's mandolin player. Very smooth performance of that song! Thanks for sharing!
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There was a recent thread on this very subject with some interesting examples from some people you might recognize.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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Maura Kennedy "multi tasking" sorry could not resist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAqim...om=PL&index=32
Mountains are holy places
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Wow! All she needs is a grass skirt instead of the LBD. Like I tell so many people, folk music is fun!
Sorry no MC, but this is way too much fun to leave out.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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