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Review: 'Trans-Siberian March Band'
'Running Away with the Circus'   

-  Album: 'Running Away with the Circus'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '21st October 2016'

Our Rating:
As you might expect from a marching band, this large collective (this, their second album, features some 14 players) contains a lot of brass. But there’s a twist, as the Trans-Siberian element of their name suggests, with clarinets, guitar and a selection of percussion in the mix.

The 14 tracks offer a mix of original and traditional songs – or ‘London-flavoured re-imaginings of traditional celebration tunes from the Balkans, Russia and Turkey’, and they’re all performed with flamboyance and zest.

And so it is that serpentine clarinet twist arabesques over oompah tuba and trombone to create a cross-cultural fusion, a kind of snake-charming, Cossack-dancing gypsy ska. It’s not hard to grasp why they’ve proved popular at festivals in recent years. Very much geared toward the uptempo and the perky, ‘Running Away with the Circus’ provides a boisterous, jubilant knees-up.

Trans-Siberian March Band Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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