(Four Stars) "It's probably fair to call TriBeCaStan strange. They've developed their own cosmology and music style that's sort of Balkanish (or points further East), not unlike 3 Mustaphas 3. They're clever, slyly humorous and technically very good indeed. Smart, often funny, but always highly accomplished...."
—Chris Nickson, All Music Guide

"The beauty of this music is that, at the same time that it might seem chaotic, it is also accessible . . . It encourages you to hum along . . . at the same time that it unsettles your notions of place, it invites you to partake in a more human modernity . . . Greene and Kruth's synthesis certainly reflects a broader vision."
—The Huffington Post

New Deli Track Listing:
01. Song For Kroncha
02. Louie's Luau
03. Freaks For The Festival
04. Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
05. Dive Bomber
06. A Crack In The Clouds
07. Bed Bugs
08. Jovanka
09. Daddy Barracuda
10. Two For Ornette (Dee Dee/Theme From A Symphony)
11. Guinea
12. (One Day) His Axe Fell Into Honey
13. El Bumpa
14. The Brain Surgeon's Wife Serves Lunch
15. The Mystery Of Licorice McKechnie

A few years ago, two American nomads began exploring a music without rules or regard to borders. The glue was simply their mutual enthusiasm for uncharted sounds, unusual instruments, and the diverse musicians that inspired them. Now, with the release of their third album, New Deli, TriBeCaStan has matured into a large tight-knit ensemble, complete with power horns, rocking bass lines, catchy vocal riffs, and wickedly ingenious solos. With cover art by Zappa's favorite artist Cal Schenkel, the group — led by co-founders John Kruth and Jeff Greene — has concocted their most dance-friendly record to date, a heady brew of gritty, funky new grooves from the world's deepest musical roots, thanks to an all-star "FolkLorkeStra" of globally-inspired jazz and rock music veterans.

Jeff Greene hitchhiked across Africa's Sahara Desert as a young man and got hooked on the scales and rhythms that he discovered along the way. The next few decades took him around the world, in search of unusual instruments and forgotten sounds, jamming with local musicians in their homes and cafés from Central Asia to rural Cuba and performing as part of the New York Downtown scene. If it has strings, a membrane, or lamella, Greene can make it sing.

John Kruth, songwriter and punk-mandolin renegade, pushed his instrument (and a handful of others) beyond its traditional limits with everyone from the Meat Puppets and Violent Femmes to pioneering avant composer John Corigliano. He plays free jazz and shoots pool with Ornette Coleman and literally wrote the book on legendary jazz multi-instrumentalist Rashaan Roland Kirk. John has also studied Indian classical music, traveling to Chennai to learn the subtleties of Carnatic mandolin traditions from the "Sultan of Strings," U. Rajesh.

The band is rounded out with the TriBeCaStani FolkLorkeStra, New York's unofficial interplanetary musical ambassadors. Saxophonist Claire Daly (James Brown, Taj Mahal) is a baritone whirlwind to be reckoned with, winning the hearts of both Downbeat critics and President Bill Clinton. David Dreiwitz (Ween) lays down warm, funky bass parts, while veteran drummer Todd Isler (who also lays down the beat for Mike Gordon of Phish) has toured Africa, studied in Brazil and India, and is a well-known drum-slinger on New York's jazz and global music scenes. Boris Kinberg, a multifaceted percussionist, worked for decades with legendary torch singer Willy DeVille, along with Kenny Margolis (Cracker, Mink DeVille) known for his evocative accordion and funky clavinet and organ. Scott Metzger is a guitarist's guitarist, and has been heard with Joss Stone, ?uestlove and Gov't Mule. The brass section of Chris Morrow, trombonist with Afrobeat innovators Kokolo, and trumpet man John Turner have been playing together for years. Turner has serious ska street cred, but the flexibility to blow from cool to hot on the spur of the moment.

Special guests include Soul diva Tami Lynn, an Atlantic soul diva of the '60s heard on nearly all of Dr. John's albums, as well as Exile on Main Street; Bachir Attar (ghaita) of the legendary Master Musicians of Jajouka; The Klezmatics' Matt Darriau (kaval); U. Rajesh (electric mandolin); Badal Roy, known for his tabla work with John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, and Alice Coltrane; and jazz stalwart and alumni of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's band Steve Turre (trombone, shells).

TriBeCaStan is proof that courageous musical adventurism can pay off with a record that is not only irreverent and fun, but also smart and sophisticated.

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