The Janissary Stomp, by Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson

The Janissary Stomp

by Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson

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	1.	The Border Shirts / Fair Missouri Command 03:25
	2.	The Banks of the Nile 04:54
	3.	Los Penitentes / Emergence 05:25
	4.	Lamento di Tristano / de Trilport / Taqsim di Tristano / The Arrival of the Khevsoor in Tblisi 07:37
	5.	The Burned Letters 04:36
	6.	The Guanajuato Mummies' Farewell to Budapest / Quando los Santos Entren Marchando 06:02
	7.	The March of the King of Laois 03:20
	8.	Los Dervisomangas / Jovano Jovanke 06:09
	9.	Out in the Sticks 03:23
	10.	Danzas Asturianas y Gallegas 04:52
	11.	Whippersnapper Snake 05:23
	12.	Mountains of the Moon / Zarafa / mZungu 08:44
	13.	Taqsim Tigrissippi / Threshold / The Janissary Stomp 07:05

about

Roger Landes & Chipper Thompson are exploring uncharted territory with their original compositions for two bouzoukis. Drawing on a wealth of musical influences, they are creating a new style for the instrument in which innovation flourishes while remaining true to the spirit of the Middle-Eastern and Celtic cultures which molded the bouzouki. Arabic taqsims meet Mississippi Delta Blues; a Greek rebetika meets a New Mexican Hispanic waltz; while African, Celtic, Spanish and Balkan strains compete for the ear’s attention.

Roger Landes was introduced to the bouzouki through his interest in Celtic music in 1981, and he has been exploring the frontiers of the instrument ever since. A founding member of the popular Kansas City-based Celtic group Scartaglen, he recorded several CDs with that band, contributing a cut to the best-selling Narada compilation Celtic Odyssey. After that group disbanded, he performed on the bouzouki, in a duo with fellow Scartaglen alumnus Connie Dover. He moved to Taos, New Mexico and continued to expand the possibilities of his chosen instrument, particularly adding a taste of the desert Southwest to his playing since discovering son jarocho music from Veracruz, Mexico.

An Alabama native, singer / songwriter / multi-instrumentalist Chipper Thompson has been stirring an intoxicating brew of roots-based music for several years from his home in Taos, New Mexico. A relative latecomer to the bouzouki, Chipper took up the instrument after hearing its use in Irish music, and after meeting Roger through Taos-based bouzouki builder Stephen Owsley Smith. He has quickly developed one of the most original voices on the instrument, incorporating Appalachian, Blues, Celtic, Rockabilly and Middle Eastern influences into a seamless and articulate personal expression.

What the critics are saying:

“Not only is Landes helping to legitimize the instrument, he is taking it to a whole new level. …I am in awe of his command of his instrument.”
- Cliff McGann, Celtic Heritage Magazine

“If you’re tired of ‘Celtic Music’ inspiring sonic images of limpid, drizzly, new age sounds, Roger Landes’ music will put you back on the battlefield, directly in the path of screaming, blue, naked Picts as they charge the staid orthodoxy of the Romans.”
- Homer St. John, Yoknapatawpha Howlsman’s Quarterly

Chipper Thompson is “…the Southwest’s finest Roots musician.”
- Thirsty Ear Magazine

“Chipper’s bottleneck bouzouki playing is like bein’ whomped upside the head with a buzzing hive of honeybees…… an’ likin’ it!”
- S. Jefferson Winesap, The Southern Annals of Music, Catfish and Culture

credits

released August 11, 2001

Roger Landes: 4 and 5 course bouzoukis
Chipper Thompson: 4 course bouzoukis, voice
Panayotis "Paddy" League: percussion
Mason Brown: bass violin

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Roger Landes Lubbock, Texas

Roger Landes has been playing and teaching traditional music for over 30 years. With the celebrated Celtic band Scartaglen, performing with vocalist Connie Dover, as well as touring with Carlos Núñez, and Frankie Gavin and Rick Epping, to his duo work with fiddler Randal Bays, and his critically-acclaimed duo bouzouki record with Chipper Thompson. ... more