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Beckoned by the dulcet tones of violin, bass, and the female voice
spiraling through the darkness, the stranger was helplessly drawn
towards the last lit trailer in camp that seemed to have sprung
forth from another time. This chance meeting's outcome: lePercolateur.
Fueled by coffee black as the night the musicians played 'til
the sun began painting the eastern horizon red, and carnivale
rose 'round them from the ether.
Winding their caravan through the windiest of cities, lePercolateur
has spent the time since this fateful night sweeping in to transport
concert-goers to a time where music was a liberating and cathartic
respite from persecution--where the frenetic energy of struggling
to simply 'be' coalesced with the unbridaled spirit of gypsy music
and burgeoned into swing dancing.
The coming Spring of 2012 finds lePercolateur slated to release
their debut album as the latest band to join the Chicago Sessions
record label. Between now and then, many more are sure to wake
from a dreamlike daze wondering in which year they find themselves,
and wishing it was what their senses told them.
"a sly and surprising gypsy-jazz quintet who apply that idiom
to modernistic pop tunes, as well as vintage jazz composition"
- Neil Tesser, Chicago Examiner
lePercolateur - Chicago's hipster gypsy-jazz
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