Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Kymberley Kennedy

Ticket: £15.00 Buy Now
Doors: 19:30pm
Age: 14+

EIGHT HORN-PLAYING BROTHERS FROM CHICAGO. And an unrelated drummer (!). Youngblood Brass Band fans listen up!!

Arriving back on our shores HYPNOTIC BRASS ENSEMBLE still have a deserved reputation as one the best live bands around with an incendiary show rooted in jazz but influenced and informed by hip-hop, rap and funk.

The eight brothers performed with their mothers, older brothers and sisters, as well as their father, Kelan Phil Cohran (co-founder of AACM, SUN RA’s lead trumpeter, mentor to The Pharoahs, later known as “EARTH WIND AND FIRE).

By the end of the nineties, with everyone out of school, they brought together their musicianship, jazz roots and hip hop sensibility, and made a living busking on the streets of Chicago. They came up up with their name after an incident on the El: playing on the platform, a man in a suit watched them for hours, missing train after train, till in the end he walked up to them and said, “You guys just hypnotized me”.

Eventually the group transferred to New York City, and after playing out relentlessly, including gigs with Mos Def and Erykah Badu, and some particularly incendiary shows in Europe, they have come to be known as one of the hottest and most individual bands around – a new style of brass music they called “Hypnotic”.

Multi-award winners and big worldwide unit shifters (sophomore album “Jupiter” sold 325,000) the band has also toured with Mos Def, Maceo Parker, Talib Kweli and collaborated with GhostFace Killah and Tony Allen.

“Funky enough to convert the coldest of cynics” Time Out London.

“Underneath the hip-hop attitude, hints of a strange cosmic mysticism emerge”

For fans of Youngblood Brass Band – bad, brassy and brilliant and not to be missed!

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