hail to thieves: Amnesiac Quartet, proggy jazz Radiohead tribute band
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Artist:Amnesiac Quartet
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Album:Live in Fenetre, Paris (26/03/07)
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Track:I Might Be Wrong
at 21:20 hours of thirteenth March, a satellite dishrag stationed in Phnom Penh picked up abnormally high registers of Korn and KT Tunstall on YouTube keyword searches for "radiohead cover", thereby resuscitating a cold case: the Secret Order of Radiohead Covers a.k.a. the Order of Unknown Radiohead Coverers.the only lead had been a live recording extracted in Paris in 2006 of four French-born males in a tryst to cover Radiohead. alias: Amnesiac Quartet. footprints vanished due to a lack of any studio evidence but newer sightings place the subjects as not just any Radiohead tribute band but a pseudo-supergroup side project of four accomplished jazz musicians. making music that does not combine but rather networks their histories - straight-up and classical; progressive and experimental; symphonic and on edge.you have a 24/7 window to intercept the next rendezvous before the Wah-Wah-Wah special forces take over. your mission, should you choose to accept it: press play. good luck. this post is self-destructive by nature.k a b o o mon piano, Sébastien Paindestre (Now Blues Quartet, Sébastien Paindestre Trio)on bass, Joachim Florent (D’Jab Trio, Belfin Quartet)on saxophone, Fabrice Theuillon (Magma)on drums, Antoine Paganotti (Magma - vocals, Sébastien Paindestre Trio)(Magma is a French prog-rock band from the '70s and active to date)track on post: I Might Be Wrong - 09:07, the cover that introduced me to the group, live on 26 March 2007 in Fenêtre, Paris. (track end is cut off, sorry.)track on video: A Wolf at the Door, from the same concert:
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