Escape of the Fire Ants [HD 24b / 44.1k], by Le Rex

Escape of the Fire Ants [HD 24b / 44.1k]

by Le Rex

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	1.	Escape Of The Fire Ants 08:23
	2.	Alimentation Générale 06:41
	3.	Smoking Flowers 06:59
	4.	One Must Imagine Sissyphus Happy 06:10
	5.	Harry Stamper Saves The Day 05:53
	6.	Elliott's Theme 03:57
	7.	Bändumeh Landing 05:05
	8.	The Funding 03:23
	9.	Strong Woods 05:08
	10.	Glow 04:32
	11.	Ballad For An Optimist 06:49
	12.	Der Knochige Dürre 06:10

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Harry Lime, the charming but dastardly anti-hero in the classic 1949 film noir The Third Man, famously dissed Switzerland saying “they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” The renegade Swiss quintet Le Rex isn’t making up for lost time, but there’s an urgency and creative ferocity to their music that would make Lime reconsider his unfair denigration. Featuring four expert horn players and drums, the band is a rising force on the European music scene, with an irresistibly grooving sound honed on the street and designed for maximum impact in clubs and concert halls.

Le Rex’s fourth album 'Escape of the Fire Ants' is the band’s most confident and cohesive, marked by consistently compelling compositions, careening melodies and thick, lapidary harmonies. It’s cosmopolitan music drawing on far-flung influences and connections to Chicago, Belgrade, Cape Town, New Orleans, and Lagos. Rather than flaunting an eclectic palette, Le Rex transmutes its source material into seamless original works reflecting the group’s singular collection of personalities. Featuring German-born alto saxophonist Benedikt Reising, tenor saxophonist Marc Stucki, trombonist Andreas Tschopp, tuba player extraordinaire Marc Unternährer, and drummer Rico Baumann, Le Rex reflects the fundamental strength that flows from musicians who’ve put in the time to forge deep ties on and off the bandstand.

Street smart and road-tested, ferociously grooving and lyrically charged, intricately arranged and spontaneously generated, Le Rex’s music contains multitudes. With 'Escape of the Fire Ants', the band is on the march.

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released April 5, 2019

Benedikt Reising - Alto Saxophone
Marc Stucki - Tenor Saxophone
Andreas Tschopp - Trombone
Marc Unternährer - Tuba
Rico Baumann - Drums

Produced by Le Rex.
Recorded and mixed by Julien Fehlmann at Studio Mécanique, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
Mastered by André Pousaz.
Collage by Sean Smith.
Artwork by Salzmann & Gertsch.

www.lerexmusic.ch

© 2019 Le Rex
(p) 2019 Cuneiform Records

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Cuneiform Records is a record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. They have always championed an eclectic mixture of musical styles and artists and have consistently danced at the dangerous intersection where genres meet. In doing so, they have become one of the most prominent labels of New Music.

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