"Cigar Box Serenaders" by Cigar Box Serenaders
The Cigar Box Serenaders’ debut album. Recorded on homemade instruments made from repurposed and upcycled materials. Recorded at Bad Storm Studios in New Orleans, LA.
Track Listing:
Samurai Shuffle
Hindustan
Lavender Grey
Straight No Chaser
Improvisation in C Minor
Tico Tico No Fubá
Stardust
Prelude From Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major
I’ll Be Seeing You
“Meet the Cigar Box Serenaders: New Orleans newest upcycled instrument and found sound band. The band’s repertoire covers swing, gypsy jazz, and New Orleans traditional music but other influences and inspirations are bound to take the sound to new terrain each song. The instruments you’ll hear include handmade cigar box guitars, tin can banjos, dresser drawer upright bass, pot lid xylophones, trash drum kit, and found sound percussion. This band sounds like garbage.”
credits
released April 27, 2018
Featuring:
Brett Gardner - cigar box guitar, Drone-O-Mode (track 5), tenor canjo (track 8)
Cassidy Holden - tenor canjo, cigar box ukulele (track 9)
Matt Booth - dresser drawer upright bass
Gerald T. Watkins, Jr. - trash kit, pot lids, coffee cans, water jug
Recorded in 2018 at Bad Storm Studios, New Orleans, LA
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Gio Blackmon
Artwork by Soy Meeshii
All instruments built by Brett Gardner
Dedicated to the life of Don and Elizabeth Gadbury