Thursday, July 11th - LP release show @ Amnesia in SF!!

The LP is in!!  Over the next few weeks we will be sending out pre-release copies to the wonderful people who helped us make it possible through Kickstarter and on July 11th we will celebrate the official release of the first ever Japonize Elephants vinyl at Amnesia!  We've also been getting some great new reviews (Downbeat, Music Connection, Vintage Guitar among others) rolling in about the new album. Check out some of the quotes below!

- The Japonize Elephants

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Mélodie Fantastique is now available to everyone in physical form!!  You can order it here.

Quotes about the new album!

"Describing the band’s second album, Mélodie Fantastique, as “eclectic” is an understatement. There is a core of improvisational music, but it supports a kaleidoscope of sounds, including crazed clawhammer banjo that’s part Old Time, part bluegrass; Mariachi horns; klezmer; surf guitar; swing; spoken word; blues; Asian tonalities; and Spaghetti western twang."

- J. Poet, Downbeat

"In their alternate universe, bluegrass, noir cabaret, gypsy music, klezmer, movie themes and vintage Lebanese sounds all coexist simultaneously in the same song, more or less. There is no other band on the planet who sound remotely like them."

"This one’s a lock for one of the best albums of the year: serious Top Ten material."

- Delarue, New York Music Daily

"Themes 'Mélodie Fantastique' and 'End Times...' make it clear this is a folk outfit hatched in a Tim Burton fever dream. In fact, that artist's animations come to mind when hearing these Elephants' artful stampede."

- Music Connection, May 2013

"The new record is a dizzying array of masterful instrumentation that sounds like Bach and P.T Barnum leading an amphetamine-fueled orchestra of crazed and unpredictable players."

"Once again, the new record is AMAZING and I recommend all of our readers to catch the show and pick up the CD or LP!"  

- Kevin McGovern, Fear and Loathing in Long Beach

"If Esquivel had been asked to score a Connery era James Bond film it would sound like 'End Times, The Theme From Bat Boy'."

- Maxwell Chandler, Our Man on the Coast

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The basic group:

• Sylvain Carton - guitar, vocals
• David Gantz - junk percussion, vocals
• Jason Slota - vibes
• Mitch Marcus - tenor sax, vocals
• Marie Abe - accordion
• Dina Maccabee - violin, vocals
• Michael Mellender - bass, vocals
• Jeremy Baron - banjo
• Megan Gould- violin
• Chris Hiatt- flute, vocals
• George Ban-Weiss- bass
• Evan Farrell- bass, vocals

Other elephants:

• Ezra Gale - bass
• Isabel Douglas - accordion
• Kamala Sankaram - accordian
• Charles Ferris - trumpet
• David Phillips - pedal steel
• Scott Theakston - mixing engineer
• Stephen Barncard - recording consultant