“A hood-up is not a phone booth / A phone rings inside a hood-up”
Listening to "Happy Holidays" and subsequently delving into the works of Baltimore, Maryland's jazz punk group Joy on Fire had me doing some free form dancing (without the benefits of alcohol I might add) and I couldn't help but think of iconic old school punk / alt rock artists like Gang of Four but especially the spastic jazz punk leanings of incendiary 70's vocalist and saxophone charmer James Chance from The Contortions (later James Chance and the Contortions). Within Joy on Fire's squirrely jazz punk sound featuring wonderfully, potently feral saxophone by Anna Meadors, jagged heavy bass and guitar by John Paul Carillo, Chris Olsen's versatile drumming and Dan Gutstein's darkly drawn existential words, “We’re all gonna spend a lot of time in graveyards” feels wonderfully manic.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
https://www.facebook.com/joyonfire/
https://soundcloud.com/joy-on-fire/anger-and-decency/s-1CQ9xuxu5I6
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Ba1PI45D6Pb5gTk0tI8PQ
What if the world's greatest punk band featured lead saxophone instead of vocals? What if America's most interesting jazz trio featured a heavy metal rhythm section? What if you danced so hard, you literally jumped out of your own skin? JOY ON FIRE answers these questions and more! Originally formed in Baltimore, MD in 2009, JOY ON FIRE has since played up and down the East Coast, including gigs at Brooklyn’s Shapeshifter Lounge; SoWeBo Fest and Windup Space in Baltimore; The Purple Fiddle in West Virginia; and the The Pour House and Asheville Music Hall in North Carolina. Last May, the group hosted a month-long residency in NYC at SoHo’s The Cupping Room Cafe. Now based in New Jersey, JOY ON FIRE recently completed its second album of Led Zeppelin meets John Coltrane inspired “punk-jazz fuzz-rock,” entitled Fire with Fire.
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