Category: Kelly’s Recordings

Hi, I’m Kelly Emery and I love music. Below are musical recordings of me playing trumpet with various musicians from mostly Colorado. There is a Jazz/Funk album by The Weigh, a Rock album by SoNar, and a Ska album by Busters Ghost. Indie Rock Recordings with Cactopus . An 8 piece Beastie Boys inspired hip-hop band, Diabolical Sound Platoon. Then there are singles and other projects like recording a single with Pj Moon & The Swappers . Perhaps one of the oldest recordings with LO-FI’s Schoolama 5. Please enjoy this fun and random collection of songs!

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Ska : Buster’s Ghost

Band Bio

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 Fusion : The Weigh

The Weigh Durango Colorado Band Art by Charlie Henry

Band Bio

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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2019 Tiny Desk Concert: Coq Au Vin

Band Bio

Coq au Vin is a fresh and unique revivalist musical ensemble specializing in the performance of a spicy mélange of Gypsy jazz, French, Spanish, Klezmer and Latin American music, as well as American blues standards. Listeners are quickly transformed to revelers as they are transported to a vintage American speakeasy or Parisian café one minute, and the streets of Havana the next. Coq au Vin is available in several different arrangements ranging from a trio to the full seven-piece band.

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Contemporary Rock : SoNar

Durango Zombie March SoNar Official music video

Band Bio

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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Lo-fi : Schoolama 5

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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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Hip/Hop : Diabolical Sound Platoon

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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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Rock: PJ Moon & The Swappers

Pj moon and the swappers band durango colorado Kelly Emery

Band Bio

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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Indie : Cactopus

Band Bio

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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Film: Jane Clarks

“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.