Snow Panda’s Ombak Mixes: 2. Shuffle

A modern Brazilian film noir soundtrack. Our gumshoe follows his mark through the city streets and into a backyard party but loses him in the crowd when the femme fatale eases down the fire escape.

October 22, 2009; 6:00 AM • by Dean Christesen

Each day for a week, we’re releasing one track from Snow Panda’s Ombak Mixes. On Wednesday, October 28, Snow Panda will perform with Ombak at Cous Cous. Today’s track is “Shuffle.”

Listen:

[audio:http://rvanews.net/sounds/Jazz/02%20Shuffle.mp3|titles=Shuffle|artists=Ombak: Snow Panda Mixes]

Snow Panda says:

Not a shuffle. Obviously relies heavily on the “Lacuna” lick. A lighter tune, just having fun messing with Hooten’s trombone and Jones’ drums. All the drum parts are actually from “September 18th” if you can believe that….and I think that’s why it’s called “Shuffle” because “Sept. 18th” is actually a shuffle.

Ombak’s Bryan Hooten says:

A modern Brazilian film noir soundtrack. Our gumshoe follows his mark through the city streets and into a backyard party but loses him in the crowd when the femme fatale eases down the fire escape.

RVAJazz says:

From Brian Jones’s shuffling drum beat of “September 18,” somehow Snow Panda derives a 21st century samba, which grooves beneath Trey’s “Lacuna” lick. In the middle, there’s a taste of “Releasement,” an unrecorded Ombak tune, as the band plays a choppy rhythm in unison while the bar chatter is relentless. Guitar tones, forwards and backwards, serve as a counter line to Bryan’s “Lacuna” melody.