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Stick Against Stone Orchestra - Album Release Party at Joe's Pub

Where

Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY
Map
212-539-8778

When

Tue, January 29, 2013
9:30 am

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Musicians

About

Thirty-one years ago, a six-piece band/collective called Stick Against Stone started writing songs in a dirt-floor basement of a row house near the University of Pittsburgh. Like a musical cargo cult fed by the global eclecticism of their local freeform community radio station - WYEP-FM - this โ€œhorns and percussionโ€ outfit acquired a taste for afrobeat, punk rock, art funk, free jazz and dub reggae. Beyond the moniker of โ€œno waveโ€ โ€“ they wrote surprisingly deep melodic hooks amid swirling, ambitious, polyrhythmic arrangements. Finding themselves with a devoted local following โ€“ but without a proper album to their name โ€“ it would be several years and cities later that they eventually broke up and their quirky, soulful song- book was lost to time....

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