What do you do when you don’t like total silence but you have to work and concentrate?
The answer for me is simple! Choose a band with instrumental songs - so there won’t be any lyrics to take away your focus.
With this in mind I chose - once again - Tin Hat (Trio) as band of the day.
Wasn’t sure about what band to pick for today. This would be the first ‘band of the day’ to be present on this site.
The highlight of today’s activities is the tonight concert of romanian Kumm band in a club in my hometown. So i’ve chosen them to take the spot of today’s band. They’re a pop-rock-alternative band, some might dubbed them as being playing indie rock/music with featuring saxophones. The saxophones in Kumm are handled by Mihai Iordache. Great members, great music, nice albums, great live band! They’re active outside Romania too, playing at international festivals and not only.
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Morphine was an alternative rock band founded by Mark Sandman and Dana Colley in 1989, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Morphine was critically-acclaimed for their outstanding innovative music and unique instrumentation; their music was a combination of jazz and blues elements along with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the group a very unusual and distinctive sound. Besides that, Mark Sandman had a distinctive voice, described as deep, laid-back croon, and his songwriting featured a prominent beatnik influence.
Their unique music breaks the genres’ boundaries, being quite hard to label. Some call their music alternative rock, other say it is indie rock, but when asked by reporters to describe their music, Mark Sandman simply labeled it “Low Rock”. One critical appraisal suggests that “Morphine immediately established a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a ‘power trio’ not built around the sound of an electric guitar. Instead, with sly intelligence, Morphine expanded its offbeat vocabulary on each album.” The sound of Morphine resides in Sandman’s fretless two-string slide bass guitar, his deep voice and Colley’s saxophones.