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Cato Salsa Experience

Cato Salsa Experience "So, the Circus Is Back In Town

I was going to post Puffy AmiYumi today, but I see that Vu already has, so... I was browsing tracks by Puffy AmiYumi and came across an album they appear on called I Love Guitar Wolf... Very Much and noticed that Cato Salsa Experience was on it too. I remember a couple years back watching MTV2's video block (it wasn't Subterranean, but the one that played in the wee hours of the night) and they featured their music video for "So, the Circus Is Back In Town". The drums grabbed me immediately and the beginning riff was catchy. Then the lead singer started singing about a circus and I fell in love with the song.

Cato Salsa Experience "Lovesick"

They also have an interesting video for "Lovesick" in which the video starts out as them playing as aged men and over the course of the video progressively get younger. While watching the video, you'll notice that there are only three band members. That's because their keyboardist, Nina Bjørndalen (aka Nina Delay) left the band in August 2003 "to pursue further education" (source). No hard feelings between them though; it was a respected decision.

You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me

Two Bands and a Legend

After Nina Delay's departure, the band replaced her with Bård Enerstad and recorded 1 album as Cato Salsa Experience and 2 others with jazz trio The Thing and jazz musician Joe McPhee as Two Bands and a Legend. They created a live five-track EP called Sounds Like a Sandwich and a self-titled studio album featuring covers of songs by PJ Harvey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Led Zeppelin, and others. Both feature plenty of prog-rock/jazz pieces, but the track that's a more conventional jazz song would be "You Ain't Gonna Know Me 'Cos You Think You Know Me". It features a soft, melodic tempo as opposed to their other tracks that are high-energy and hectic. The studio album was released this year, but I'm not sure if Cato Salsa Experience are working on new material since their website doesn't offer information on any upcoming releases. Perhaps they'll be working more with The Thing and Joe McPhee.

jason // Cato Salsa Experience | The Thing | Joe McPhee | Two Bands and a Legend

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Trivia

Puffy's cover to Nice (2003) is based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace.

 

 

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Puffy AmiYumi

Okay, so I've started this video page over at Stage6: W♥M. The quality is so much better than youtube. I've only uploaded a few videos, including T.Rex and Belle & Sebastian.

Anyway, today's video is for Christopher: it's both theme song and it's Jpop.

Since I was already a big fan of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Teen Titans, so I was really excited for the cartoon series that they were developing in 2003. Because the show was deeply inspired by Japanese animation (or simply japanimation or anime), the show's creators sought after Puffy AmiYumi to do their theme song.

I remember reading an interview with one of the show's creator in a fanzine that he also based the music and song in the style of "Secret Agent Man". It's funny because Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man", which is the theme song to Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) also lifted the music from James Bond 007. (For a Spanish version of Secret Agent Man, see The Plugz - Hombre Secreto.)

Anyway, Puffy's relationship to Sam Register through Teen Titans, lead them to starring in their own television show called "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi". The show only lasted 39 episodes.

If you watch the video to the "Teen Titans Theme", you'll notice a surprise guest star: Guitar Wolf! He does what he does best, looking cool and stuff. When he turns his back to you, if you press pause, you can read the back of his jacket:

 

To Seiji,
You are a true rocker,

Love,
Joan Jett

Who knew Guitar Wolf was such a fanboy :).

 

See full-sized video at stage6.divx.com

Related Entry:: Guitar Wolf - Black Rock'n'roll

�July 06, 2007 2:33 AM� vu [email protected] puffyamiyumi.com

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Trivia

Puffy's cover to Nice (2003) is based on John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In for Peace.

 

 

Puffy AmiYumi - Teen Titans Theme

Puffy AmiYumi

Okay, so I've started this video page over at Stage6: W♥M. The quality is so much better than youtube. I've only uploaded a few videos, including T.Rex and Belle & Sebastian.

Anyway, today's video is for Christopher: it's both theme song and it's Jpop.

Since I was already a big fan of Marv Wolfman and George Perez's Teen Titans, so I was really excited for the cartoon series that they were developing in 2003. Because the show was deeply inspired by Japanese animation (or simply japanimation or anime), the show's creators sought after Puffy AmiYumi to do their theme song.

I remember reading an interview with one of the show's creator in a fanzine that he also based the music and song in the style of "Secret Agent Man". It's funny because Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man", which is the theme song to Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) also lifted the music from James Bond 007. (For a Spanish version of Secret Agent Man, see The Plugz - Hombre Secreto.)

Anyway, Puffy's relationship to Sam Register through Teen Titans, lead them to starring in their own television show called "Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi". The show only lasted 39 episodes.

If you watch the video to the "Teen Titans Theme", you'll notice a surprise guest star: Guitar Wolf! He does what he does best, looking cool and stuff. When he turns his back to you, if you press pause, you can read the back of his jacket:

 

To Seiji,
You are a true rocker,

Love,
Joan Jett

Who knew Guitar Wolf was such a fanboy :).

 

See full-sized video at stage6.divx.com

Related Entry:: Guitar Wolf - Black Rock'n'roll

�July 06, 2007 2:33 AM� vu [email protected] puffyamiyumi.com