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Quirky-jerky, loony-croony, gypsy carnival opera music. Tom Waits meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show? Danny Elfman meets Squirrel Nut Zippers? Listen to this glorious tangle of sounds and decide for yourself.
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World: Eastern European
Release Date:
2001
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Circus Contraption is an honest-to-goodness, one-ring travelling circus based in Seattle, Washington. Music is an integral part of our show, and we work constantly toward blurring the lines between the musicians and physical performers in the creative process.
What do we sound like? Sometimes spooky, sometimes quirky, sometimes raucous, and sometimes just a bit silly. Imagine an off-kilter carousel accompanied by Halloween music gone slightly wrong. At any given moment, you\'ll hear vocals, accordion, banjo, guitar, bass, clarinet, violin, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, tuba, theremin, washboard, drums, beer bottles, rusty junk and elbow grease.
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How do others describe the band and its music?
\"Wildly creative\" - Seattle Times
\"An amazing circus orchestra\" - Bay Guardian
\"Freakin\' stellar\" - East Bay Express
\"A lurid hurdy-gurdy hybrid of Fellini movie soundtracks and Tom Waits.\" - The Stranger
\"With amazing skill and versatility, Circus Contraption combines frolicking rhythms with sinister words and melodies.\" - Seattle P-I
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E' un gruppo strepitoso
author: Pier Paolo Conconi
Un gruppo strepitoso che stimola la fantasia e la creatività con gran gusto e presenza!
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You don't have another CD like this
author: Paul Syrett
Not sure about the constant Tom Waits references. This is a far more interesting, eclectic and downright funny collection of sounds. Almost pointless trying to describe the music as each track is completely different to the last and is of no fixed genre, although plenty people have had a good try. Highly recommended to anyone with even slightly adventurous tatses.
The first and third CC CD, along with the two The Bad Things CDs, are rarely off my CD player these days.
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Our Latest Catalogue
author: Big Sur Toby
Well, what can I say? it is everything wonderful and more! Having seen Circus Contraption and their eclectic (is this the new buzz-word for outrageous/decadent/hedonistic/raunchy/out-of-control?) OCntraption Crew here in big Sur for the last few years, this CD brought back sweet and outrageous memories. I bought two of the Contraption albums - this and Grand American Travelling Dime Museum for a "Carnivale" theme based Christmas, where we will create a soup kitchen for friends, and enjoy stew and many delicous libations and mood-enhancing ingestibles. This is THE circus music your mother told you not to listen to! And so we will, in defiance of ALL of our parental admonishments, play this loud and clear, and we will dance, frolic, fall around and even atempt some of the death-defying stunts that Contraption is so well known for. You'll read about Toby's Christmas party for years to come - inspired by Circus Contraption!
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Trapezzes swinging in the twilight zone.
author: Carl M. Nielsen
Remeber what it was like going to the circus as a child? The exitement, the intencity, the smell of sawspuns, the horses, the clowns, the, the, the ... Or have you ever been taken away by the unique world of old black and white movies, such as the version of "Oliver Twist" with Alec Guinnes playing Fagin? Well, here's that magic mood and special atmospeare put in to a cd. With reminences of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, Edith Piaf, Django Reinhardt, Beatles ("The Benefit Of Mr. Kite"), Dr. John, Sailor and even a bit of Alice Cooper this album creates a universe of its own. Like something you have dreamed a long time ago and then forgotten. Perhabs not sure if it was a sweet dream or a nightmare. But it was something special, something important. "Our Last Catalogue" takes you in to a magic world of dreams, desires, fears, the uncouncious, twilight zone and some old days many, many years ago, maby in the victorian era, the days of the perfect surface with a lot hidden underneith, the days of Jack The Ripper. It's all there!
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