Lowdown Brass Band News
Chicago's LowDown Brass Band deftly synthesizes the gritty sounds of Chicago with the high energy second-line street beat of the Crescent City. Brass bands, early predecessors of jazz as we know it, would often follow the funeral procession playing somber dirges, then once the family of the deceased was out of earshot, burst into jubilant dance tunes as casual onlookers danced in the streets.
The LDB has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such artists as: Lake Street Dive, G Love and the Special Sauce, Dumpstaphunk, The Stooges Brass Band, Ricky B, Wycliffe Gordon, Bonerama, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, The ' Myʼs, and The Drastics.
The music we play is street music and in that regard, you have to play loud to get people attention and you have to do things like put horn moves and dance moves in, and play percussion instruments, to get people's attention on the street. We spoke with Lance Loiselle, the band's pianist and sousaphonist, about their newest project, Lowdown Breaks, and how they have managed to sustain this hiphop musical gumbo over the years.
When it's all said and done, it'll almost be the same amount of time for LowDown Breaks, but the start-to-finish production on this one was significantly more extensive. Since forming in 2003, the Lowdown Brass Band has recorded a full-length album and an EP, both self-produced and self-released.
19. There was most definitely a significant gap of time though, after the Christmas album, for us to get our shit together and release LowDown Sounds. Combining the poetic ferocity of Billa Camp with stellar vocal harmonies, adventurous improvisation, movement, and grooves, LDB creates an infectious and diverse sound that has something for every listener.
Is an American funk music act, based in New Orleans, Louisiana. In its years together, the LDB had shared the stage with Lake Street Dive, Bonerama, G Love & Special Sauce and The Stooges Brass Band — beyond playing the occasional jazz festival — showing its versatility in-concert.
Trying to refine the sound through our concepts (Like LowDown Breaks) of writing and producing and perfecting other styles we are not so familiar with like salsa, or learning traditional reggae riddims, and always keeping it a collaborative process within the band's writers and producers to keep that cohesive and diverse sound.
We're from Chicago another melting pot of all kinds of music the strong horn tradition that has been such a big part of the city like the music of Chicago or Earth Wind & Fire, or the great jazz and blues tradition, which we are all heavily influenced by. Billa Camp (our MC) has a love for punk rock, ska, hip-hop and reggae, his writing reflects that.
With a blistering array of horns, funktacious drums and a powerful sousaphone, the Chicago-based brass set has also perfected a gritty and dynamic sound through the genres of hip-hop, soul, ska and rock. They're a band that get's it: progressive brass beats with a festive attitude and a groovy onslaught of stellar vocal harmonies and horns that are marvelously entertaining and unique.
While the weather might be getting colder and colder, Lowdown Breaks is sure to heat up any room you in which you spin it. We spoke via email with David Levine, LowDown Brass Band's baritone sax player, about the new LP. On Thursday, July 28, the Lowdown Brass Band will perform at Tres Hombres.
Lowdown Brass Band , hailing from Chicago, IL, is a fierce ten-piece, horn-driven machine. Three years ago, Chicago rapper MC Billa Camp joined the group to introduce a hip-hop sound. First single Ghost Town" features Billa Camp & The Dread and shows the musicians riding the seas in a glorious way.
