Five-string banjo, keyboards, electric guitar, electric bass, three percussionists (among them a tabla player) -- New Monsoon is one of those bands that could really go either way: either thrillingly eclectic or eye-rollingly earnest and mushily multi-culti. Interestingly, they manage to have it both ways on this live album, recorded at the Telluride festival in June of 2004. They do it by playing music that is genuinely exciting and complex, drawing on multiple cultural influences without sounding l...   [ read more ]

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