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Hey Marseilles | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: December 13, 2008
• Label: Hey Marseilles
• Copyright: 2008 Hey Marseilles
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• ASIN: B001NTYNKK
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up-and-coming Seattle band worth hearing, January 13, 2009

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K. Thompson "charger power" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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Hey Marseilles is an excellent band out of Seattle. They have created a good following and have some serious potential! They are especially fabulous live if you can get out to see them. I highly recommend them!

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Party in My Ears, July 7, 2010

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Call me Al - See all my reviews

This review is from: To Travels & Trunks (Audio CD)

I have never listened to a band that has so much depth. I have listened to the entity of this album at least 20 times and it never gets old. Calabasas is my favorite but Rio is a close second... Buy this... believe me these guys are GOOD.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Oh, no! There's an opening act!!!, June 15, 2011

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PHILIP S WOLF (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, CA. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: To Travels & Trunks (Audio CD)

I knew nothing about this band before attending a Toad The Wet Sprocket show in a downtown venue in Reno, Nevada in July 2010. I'm a big Toad fan, so it was: "Opening band? Hoy Marseilles!!! Who's dat, Winton's younger brother or something?" As I've seen a few shows over the past four decades, I've been burned by more than a few opening bands in my time, so I was less than overjoyed by this bunch of weird frenchmen that were on the bill with Toad.

We found the only grouping of seats (besides some tables on the first floor way, way in the back of the club behind the bar) upstairs and about 20 feet directly over the stage, and settled in for a hot summer's night in the high desert. We were looking straight down and the big stage and there were bass drums, and odd instruments scattered all about the stage. It wasn't hard to figure out that this band Hey Marseilles, was gonna be a bit different from normal.

The lights went down in the venue and Hey Marseilles appeared from the wings and I counted seven very young guys pick up guitars, trumpets, violins while standing near bass drums to thump upon with much gusto. The band performed this record from start to finish in order and by the second song my wife commented that: "Whoa, this band is pretty good" I replied: "This isn't a band, it's a small orchestra down there" And, then something very strange happened...I was getting into a band of young musicians from Seattle that were very different and very creative in their presentation and style than anybody else I had come across in decades. There is a French influence found in this music but, there is also a Latin/Mexican flavor to many parts of the music. At times two cellos are much akin to ELO but as most of the seven men on stage keep switching instruments to suit the music passages played the styles are changing and moving throughout the set.

After the band performed their encore to screaming crowd of Toad fans, I went downstairs and purchased this wonderful CD from the band's tee shirt table. I really enjoy the music of this band as they are so different from everybody else out there today. This is a group that is painting big pictures with the music they perform and this is fun, strange art for folks that think they have heard it all.
Hey Marseilles, is a brand new ballgame as a band of talented players that have much scope and imagination.
You haven't heard everything until you have heard this.
Four Stars!