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“If they don’t make you dance, check your heartbeat.” — SF Chronicle
Born of the Bay Area’s rich musical lineage, Beso unites multigenerational ties to local music with a fearless fusion of Gypsy jazz, rock, country, and more. Each member brings distinct influences that intertwine into a sound both timeless and electrifying — where the mystery of gypsy swing meets the pulse of modern rock ’n’ roll.
Their high-voltage performances have lit up stages from Outside Lands and SXSW to Slim’s SF and The Great American Music Hall. With bilingual flair, virtuosic musicianship, and irresistibly danceable rhythms, Beso creates a spellbinding tapestry that honors tradition while blazing new musical trails.
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“Our music lives where old-world romance meets modern fire. We grew up in the Bay Area’s diverse scene, each of us bringing our own influences — Gypsy jazz, rock, country, Americana — and fusing them into something alive, raw, and danceable. We want people to feel it in their bones — that pulse that reminds you you’re still breathing.”
Links:
Reverb Nation: https://www.reverbnation.com/besonegro
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/beso_negro
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/besonegroband
Local Music Vibe: http://localmusicvibe.com/user/besonegro
CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/besonegro1
Marin IJ Review: http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_24665631/press-play-beso-negros-red-hot-burn-it
Marin IJ "Not Your Fathers Gypsy Jazz": http://www.marinij.com/ci_23637836/lib-at-large-beso-negros-not-your-fathers
Marin IJ Top 10 Best: http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_24784561/lib-at-large-press-plays-10-best-marin
Beso Negro February 26, 2012
Beso Negro embodies gypsy jazz at its height of romance, what one could call the Django Tango. This group assembles beneath the moonlight to take a shovel to the peat and dig up the adventure, grit, mystery, ceremony, and mirth known by true vagabonds through to the marrow. The ensemble is comprised of one fiddle, a wayward accordion, a cajon which stomps counter to Franco’s war drum, two acoustic guitars, a cello, an upright bass, and enough sultry voices to woo the dead from their slumber. Their songs illuminate the loneliness of the way that no man goes, the way the nomad knows. They range from funeral marches to raucous celebrations of the sultry birthright of humanity. Stage draped with silken tapestries, smoldering incense, dried flowers and herbs with a mounted jackelope to watch over the spectacle, Beso Negro fills your head with dancing bears, jangling ankle bells, and inutterable spells which make you forget that Vaudeville ever met its match. The group recently hitched its wagons for the South by Southwest tour and if you were a fortunate enough soul to witness the affair, you know that you’ve received an incurable bite. So if you happen to spot smoke billowing from a hilltop campfire and catch throbbing bass tones and tawdry fiddle diddies floating on the dusky breeze... you’ll know you’ve arrived at the place where life and death dance side by side. Kick up your heels, feel the dust between your stockinged toes, let your skirt twirl, and your hair fling wet tendrils about your flushed flame-toasted cheeks and let Beso Negro steal a big, wet tainted kiss.
Tom Crosthwaite, Publisher www.BestNewBands.com
George Cole (George Cole Quintett)
"Beso Negro blew the roof off the Starry Plough."
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