Biff Bam Boom

Kamala Sankaram recently brought her Summer Music Project to The Stone, John Zorn's stomping grounds in a corner of the East Village. Her confessed intention was to challenge herself to write one composition a week and deliver the collected finished products to an audience within a given timeframe. The result was a cross-pollination of genres incorporating Hanna-Barbera sound effects, Bollywood noir, Saturday morning Crest Gel jingles, early Nintendo soundtracks, spaghetti westerns, as well as experiments in chance music and recontextualized noise. Her able-bodied crew kept up with even her most eccentric of ideas. What is especially notable about Kamala's music is its tendency to straddle the divide between experimental and tuneful. In other words, it keeps your brain and your toes simultaneously engaged.











The cast:
Kamala Sankaram (voice, squeezebox, bleeps, bloops)
Pat Muchmore (cello-fiddle, hairstyle)
Ed RosenBerg (duck call, tenor sax)
Jeff Hudgins (tubular bell, alto sax)
Drew Fleming (testosterone box, guitar)