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Uské Orchestra
12+ albums
Avant-Gardeexperimentalelectronicpsychedelicweird
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http://www.uskeorchestra.com/ Uské Orchestra's music is indeed a mixture of styles, but not in the avant-garde sense. For here pop music styles are not referenced, wildly combined and rendered ridiculous. No, this band rather assembles and stacks microscopic bits from all possible genres and styles to build teeming musical market places. Uské Orchestra shows a preference for acoustic sounds, recorded as is. Within seconds they change the mood, the instrument, the timbre and the arrangement. If there was ever an award for devious sound design, Uské Orchestra would be the clear winner. Just imagine the sound track to The Matrix, performed by a hyperactive brass band from the Balkans or Mexico. Up close nothing about this music appears ostentatious; but if you take a step back and view the sound paintings on Niko Et La Berlue as a whole, you'll notice the impermeability and voluminous magnitude of the tracks. Just as the mighty Leviathan emerges out of a mass of little people, ant heaps crop up here out of innumerable triads. If there is a connection between music and language, then its a babylonic mess that reigns at Uské Orchestra. Sometimes we think we are hearing elements of bluegrass, polka, lounge jazz and electronica, but then again we are not quite sure. Our grasp of this music always seems a bit behind as it smirkingly teases and entangles us in its rough poetry. Perhaps we are too close to tell. Parts of Niko Et La Berlue sound like jam sessions with only a rough di
