Category: Kelly’s Recordings

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Rigidly handsome, these boys are all about the skank (musical term for the up beat). Their horn powered, drum line styled, back beat ska sound will force a smile on the face and a groove in the step. Since 2012 Busters Ghost has been Durango, Colorado’s premier reggae rhythm and punk-beat stylist. They are hear to stay. Their ire ratchet have led them to share the stage with The Toasters, Reel Big Fish, Be Like Maxx, The Nuns of Brixton, Warsaw Poland Bros, Alpha School Marm Orchestra, and more. Do not hesitate to meet the band after the show or reach up and provoke the guitarist during.

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Jazz Funk Flamenco Hip-Hop Reggae Jam Folk….The Weigh is a talented troupe of traveling troubadours put on this planet to make you move. We are inspired by all forms of art, but as far as music goes we like Devotchka, Santana, Dave Brubeck, Dream Theatre, Miles Davis, Shpongle, Jaga jazzist, Bonobo, Quantic (in all forms), Flying Lotus, Fleet Foxes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Giberto (and Astrud, relax), Phish, Air, Herbie Hancock, Jaco Pastorius, Snarky Puppy and so many others that if we even tried to compile them into a list you would get bored and look at someone elses page. We believe in action. We worship movement. We are married to the groove. We will play at your house party!!

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Years ago in 2009, the band SoB from Durango, CO, entered the studio six members strong. SoB, a ska band with rock and metal roots consisted of tenor sax Timmy Esposito, piano Chris Cooke, tuba Robert Chrisman, guitarist, Julian Martinez and James Estelle, trombone Cliff Fowler, and drummer Danny Walters. The album never released, though fully recorded, and citing artistic differences the band separated leaving three members left to form a band with a new attitude.

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A melting pot of sound, influenced by hip-hop, jazz, funk and jams, we lay down the groove that puts the sauce on your sandwich. 
Here you’ll find our underground beats. go check out our debut studio album on itunes, amazon, spotify, apple music and everywhere else.

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Hiphop-influenced local band Diabolical Sound Platoon, born in the 90’s and originated with OB1 rapping over homemade songs derived from loops and samples. Today the band has evolved into and group of five talented instrumentalist with OB1 and The Prestidigitator holding it down as Master of Ceremonies.

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PJ Moon and the Swappers is a band formed in Durango, CO in 2017. The Group was formed by bandleader PJ Moon, searching for a troupe of musicians who could help him realize his dream of making new modern rock and soul music with relevant, relatable lyrics on top of innovative rhythm and melodies. With a diverse team of jazz, blues, indie and funk players originally “swapping” out every few shows, the group developed into a core four piece of committed musicians who’ve taken their expression of soul from the west to the east, playing shows in Jackson Hole at the historic Silver Dollar Saloon, and in New York City at famed Times Square club, B.B. Kings.

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Cactopus is a dark yet whimsical band of four residing in Austin, Texas. They incorporate elements from gypsy folk, bluegrass, rockabilly, metal, punk, blues, reggae and indie pop drawing influences from bands such as Queens of the Stone Age, The Devil Makes Three, Radiohead, Primus, The White Stripes, Modest Mouse, Gogol Bordello & Andrew Bird. The lyrics will take you on strange journeys from their post apocalyptic visions to the broken gears of an insane mind. The band recently finished their first EP, Pesticide Paradise. It’ll get you bat shit crazy on the dance floor.

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“Jane Clarks“, a film by Josephine Meruze, 2015 from Groar Kino on Vimeo. Josephine, a young film student, decides to portray a woman, Jane Clarks, a strong African-American who died over thirty years ago. She lived for a century from 1883 to 1983, in Chicago at Bronzeville. Jane Clarks was fighting against segregation for equality between black and white people. She was also living a life of music with jazz and blues.

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