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Thursday February 18, 2010

Sex Mob Sexotica & DJ Olive, Nigun – 22nd of March

New York Jazz Gödör’s first event this year will be held on the 22nd of March. The Hungarian guest of the evening will be Nigun, playing Eastern-Europen Klezmer and after them Sex Mob from New York is presenting their exciting show, Sexotica.

Sex Mob ’s members are all legendary in jazz history and their concerts are always real speciliaties in Budapest. Luckily we have the chance to listen to all of them again, live at Gödör. They not only like playing their own songs, but also Rolling Stones, Nirvana or even French Sanzon adaptations. Postmodern waltz, dub, free jazz melts into one style in their music, moments stick to the listener’s mind forever, the band solely works at present. Sex Mob is one of the most successful and happiest bands of contemporary modern jazz and New York downtown’s jazz scene: unbelievably energetic dance music, free jazz, or real New Orleans feeling, which easily turns into wild party music.

Next to the fivefold Emmy award winner Steven Bernstein there are other acclaimed and famous jazz musicians, such as the saxophonost Briggan Krauss, or the double bass player Tony Scherr, who has played with Norah Jones before, and behind the drums the forever young Kenny Wollesen, who has been in Tom Waits’ band.

Bernstein has also worked with many great musicians before (with Lou Reed’s, Marianne Faithfull, etc.). He plays on soprano tombrone, which is a real curio, but as the founder of the band he does much more for success… On this tour DJ Olive, the famous disc jockey from Brooklyn will add something extra to the concert to make it even more exciting.

Sexotica, the album, which was nominated for a Grammy award in 2006 is citing the feeling of the enigmatic Tropical islands and the rhytms of the jungle. Ominous, pulsating bass, surging trance, sultry eroticism.

As it has always been, there will be a Hungarian guest of the evening too, Nigun, which was founded in 2001 by András Párniczky guitar player. Nigun is the only jazz band in Europe, which stipulates its style on Eastern European Klezmer. They like working with guest musicians, such as Matt Darriau (Klezmatics, Paradox Trio), Miklós Lukács, or Mihály Dresch and Dániel Szabó.