RAVES for DAROL ANGER and MIKE MARSHALL and
BRAND NEW CAN
"Inimitable, ebullient and fascinating!"
"Uninhibited improvising...their music has moved far beyond its bluegrass roots to incorporate bebop and other modern jazz styles, as well as elements from Indian, Brazilian, and Celtic music...Marshall and Anger may have played with some of the world's finest musicians but as the playing on Brand New Can shows, their greatest inspiration has always been each other."
"Different, catchy and cool. The bonus jam at the end of track 10 is worth waiting for."
"Serious instrumental music, a blend of folk, fusion and jazz played by 4 very impressive musicians...Superb music, highly recommended."
"Anyone who digs the way musical boundaries have collapsed in recent years under the sheer weight of cross-musical virtuosity, will want to pull the tab on Brand New Can."
"Intense fusiongrass with nutty tutti lines at blazing tempos...(bass player) Jones does it all with aplomb, even bringing his big, blooming fretless tone to the raga style free improv of 'Zakir.'
"Marshall--switching between mandolin, guitar and mando-cello--and Anger were afforded even more opportunities to stretch out in this band setting, jamming through the challenging structures of their original tunes with almost giddy creativity."
BEST OF THE YEAR- POP/ROCK/JAZZ etc.
Star-News (McCall, ID)
Amazon.com
O's Place Jazz Review
Tennessee Jazz & Blues Society
The Record, ONTARIO CANADA
Bass Player Magazine
Dave Royko, Chicago Tribune
"The exploratory fiddling of Darol Anger and the neo-clasical guitar and mandolin playing of Mike Marshall have been doing a fascinating dance for more than twenty years, since David Grisman's original Quintet... [Brand New Can] is their first project that could hold its own at any jazz festival."
Craig Havighurst, Nashville Tenneseean