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Suffering from those post-JazzFest withdrawal symptoms?  Need your New
Orleans music fix?  Help is on the way ...

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This month's IkoIko.com newsletter is brought to you by the
indescribably delicious Creole tomatoes, crowder peas and collard greens
of Southern Louisiana.  (Hey, don't they deserve promotion as much as
Nike and Nissan?)
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We've got a *BIG* treat in store for you in the latest update of
IkoIko.com -- an exclusive preview of the new CD by those masters of
booty-shakin, hanky-wavin', total-throwdown New Orleans brass funk, the
mighty, mighty ReBirth Brass Band!  You can sample audio clips and get
the complete scoop on their fresh Shanachie release, "We Come to
Party!"  Nine high-density tracks so Southern-fried funky they'll make
you slap your mama ... (shrimp po-boy and Dixie beer not included).

PLUS in this issue you can meet & greet two new Iko householders:  

**The New Orleans Nightcrawlers Brass Band has been stirring up a huge
amount of interest since forming early in '96 (winners of the "Best
Contemporary Brass Band" award at the Big Easy Entertainment Awards last
month) and releasing their eponymous debut CD.  You'll
recognize lots of their players from their tenures in other local brass
and trad jazz ensembles.  If you can sample only one audio clip, take
our advice and make it "Tchfunkta", the deeply grooving anthem penned by
Stanton Moore of funk-band-gone-nova Galactic.

**Invisible Cowboy is an incredibly hard-working, swampy-rock ensemble
of beer-deifyers from Hammond, Louisiana that plays -- well, we couldn't
say it any better than they do -- "music that rolls slowly out of the
swamp and emerges from a miasmic haze to knock you over and knock you
out."  Check out their current CD, "Unsafe Trigger...at the white trash
discotheque", and (sing along with me here) sample audio clips!

And as if that weren't enough ... Our own resident scenestress, Eulalie
Echo, takes you on a tour of the spots where you'll find the steamiest
jazz 'n brass on a Wednesday night in New Orleans -- including the
little-known but locally beloved Little Peoples Place, a tiny incubator
of the traditional and contemporary sounds that have been coming out of
the Treme neighborhood for over a hundred years now and show no signs of
lettin' up -- that is, unless the City fathers and gentrifyin' yuppies
get their way.  (Repeal the Entertainment Tax!)

COMING LATER IN MAY:  John Sinclair, the Professor of Rhythm & Rhyme,
ponders "The Roots of Funk and Rock 'n Roll in New Orleans R&B" ... more
musical biographies from Tom McDermott in "Dermottoons" ... and an
exciting new musician columnist takes you behind the doors of the
dressing rooms into the contemporary New Orleans jazz and funk scenes.

So call your friends, grab a beer, and come visit us at IkoIko.com ...
And don't forget that we love to hear from you, too!  Reply to this
message or hit the "Contact Us" link on the front page.

http://www.ikoiko.com/

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"I'm not absolutely certain, but I think that ALL music started in New
Orleans."
---Ernie K-Doe
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