Title [The Shotgun Wedding Quintet]
Artist [The Shotgun Wedding Quintet]
Label [Jazz Mafia]
Genre [Hip-Hop]
Quality/Size [44.1 @VBR 69,5 MB]
Ripped [10-19-2007]
Grabbed from [CDDA]
Enc [Lame 3.97]
Website [www.jazzmafia.com]

Track Time Title

01 02:00 A Bum In San Francisco
02 03:00 The Beat
03 04:45 Primetime Man
04 04:49 500 Proof
05 01:44 Every Now and Then
06 04:28 We Take It Back
07 03:11 Don’t Wake Me Up
08 04:32 Half Full Or Half Empty
09 03:59 The Day I Blew Up
10 06:10 Last One At The Bar
11 06:13 Time Will Judge
12 06:11 Can’t Get Enough
13 01:27 Bonus Track
Totals
52:29 min

Release Notes:

Fans of The Roots, US3, The Chapter, and DaKah Hip Hop
Orchestra will enjoy these dudes…

At the heart of San Francisco’s infamous Jazz Mafia, you’ll
find The Shotgun Wedding Quintet – A group of 5 powerful
musical personalities with the sound of a 10-piece band…
literally. By taking advantage of modern technology, these
guys use electronic sampling devices to layer their sound,
an original technique this band has mastered. Unlike
traditional hip-hop and pop groups that tend to focus on a
lead, The Shotgun Wedding Quintet emphasizes the importance
of each instrument with respect to the group’s overall
sound. The result is a controlled chaos of rap, big band,
electronic and symphonic music that MC/vocalist Dave
“Dublin” Payne-Schwirtz calls “thinking man’s hip-hop.”

So much happens on stage at a Shotgun Wedding Quintet show
that one has a hard time knowing where to look. Joe Cohen
juggles the keyboard, flute and three different types of
saxophones; Adam Theis alternately plucks a seven-string
bass and pulls on a trombone. Gerald “P. Dub” Patrick plays
various percussive instruments, including the electronic
drums, and DJ/Producer “Aspect” McCarthy brings it all
together electronically. In the studio, the band found new
creativity in the process of translating live into recorded
music — and vice versa. They messed around with segments
recorded from previous shows to create a sampled sound.
Conversely, the Quintet enlisted 18-20 additional musicians
to recreate samples that had previously been “chopped up”
for live shows. In live performances these pre-recorded
layers generate the feeling of a full orchestra with only
five musicians on stage. “Our whole vibe was to make
something that sounds traditional using symphonic stuff, but
is futuristic in the approach with electronic beats and
samples,” says Dublin.