Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buckshot LeFonque, Marsalis has concocted a veritable musical melting pot: a funk bassist, an electric guitarist, a latin percussionist, two keyboardists (one on Fender Rhodes, the other piano), a jazz horn section (trombone, trumpet and Marsalis on alto and tenor saxophones), a hip-hop drummer and a rap DJ, with intermittent help from a house rapper and three Caribbean dancehall rappers...
Merrill spent many years in Greece, and there's an overbrimming sunniness ("There at the highest trumpet blast/ Of Fahrenheit") in much of his poetry, particularly in his early books: with polychromatic warmth and humor he captures lovers, society ladies, fortune-tellers, merchants, children. In recent years he registered more moon than sun perhaps, in poems bathed in a blue, chilly and at times merciless light. Merrill wrote beautifully-painfully-about the daily diminutions of the body and the passing of friends, about aids, alcoholism and senility...
...even fewer chords. The charm of some tunes, while ample at first, quickly wanes as the band beats a thin joke to death. The listener discovers that he can only hear the words "I'm killing all the fucking hippies" so many times. Frequently aware of this weakness, Butt Trumpet saves itself with brevity. Only two of the songs on the album are longer than three minutes--most are even shorter than that. Usually the song's sole joke is enough to pull it through for the length of the piece...
...Butt Trumpet is a band with a sick sense of humor, poor singing ability, but almost wickedly funny songs. "Primitive Enema" deftly highlights these traits to produce an entertaining album...
...Butt Trumpet is not for everyone. You don't have to be sexual paraphiliac or even a proctologist to enjoy it, although it might help. Butt Trumpet is definitely not the noise you want to have playing in the background during a telephone interview. Enjoy the music, but be forewarned--even Beavis and Butthead could have trouble listening to something this crude. Well, maybe...