The Gangsters – s/t LP rock The idea was to be

The idea was to be confrontational—to evoke (as Tomata described in an early interview) a state of anxiety

"After spending the first years of the band recording everything on a shoestring budget

it's this world we created together

the sense of the fraught sophomore effort is accentuated even more so

The Gangsters – s/t LP rock The idea was to beRescued from obscurity, the tracks on this album have all the punch and hip swinging joy of fellow jazz funk artists like The Crusaders, Weather Report, and Pleasure. But with Thara Memory leading the charge, the music has a rich complexity, best exemplified by the nine minute Suite for Funk Band, which runs through a series of movements that touch on Latin grooves and post bop before culminating in an almost psychedelic breakdown capped off by a