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Vasco da Gamba

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Vasco da Gamba - folk funk? Latin reggae? Afro-celtic soul with a hint of arabic? No-one is quite sure how to pidgeonhole the music of this quartet (including the band themselves) but then perhaps to try is to miss the point. All that is certain is that the song-based music produced by this combination of vocals, mandola, percussion, electric double bass and soprano sax/bassoon is different from anything you have ever heard before. Open your mind and your ears.....

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Member Since: 07/08/2007
Band Website: www.vascodagamba.co.uk
Band Members: Pat Smyth-vocal,mandola, Erik Knussen-double bass, Gus Cuthbertson-saxophone,bassoon, Gary Stewart-drums,percussion
Influences: Good wine and fine paella. . . . . . Tiny Tim, Blind Willie Johnson, I Roy, Bob Marley, Bruce Cockburn, Paul Brady, Curtis Mayfield, Manechas Costa, Ze Manel, Miles Davis,Bill Evans (the pianist), Wayne Krantz, Dave Robb, Rabih Abou-Khalil, The Sound of Music, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Klezmer, Salsa, The Bothy Band, Jug Bands. . . . . . and Keith Floyd
Sounds Like: boomboom-Cha-boomDumtekDumtek DumDumKatek-paradiddleparadiddle boomboom-Yo!-boomboom-aaaaaaaaah! Fisherman'sFriend-ooooooooo!-paradiddleparadiddle ChaChaDumtekDumtek-Yo!-paradiddleparadiddle LoKonKon-LoKon-LoKonKon-LoKon-boomboom falalalalalalala-boomboom!
Record Label: Unsigned

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