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Artist: Celebration
Website: http://www.myspace.com/celebrationcelebration or ilovecelebrationmusic.com/
Track Name: Evergreen
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Another trio today, Baltimore-based trio Celebration, purveyors not so much of of “modern tribal” but post-rock (still waiting for a definitive version of what post rock is folks). The music is full of flourishes, hard left turns, backings that zig when you expect them to zag and basically it’s just three people having way too much fun.

The band’s myspace site labels them as Psychedelic Soul. Hey that works for me, we arent talking James Brown here, although singer Katrina Ford, organist/guitarist Sean Antanaitis, and drummer Dave Bergander have a nice line in passion too.

Celebration vocalist Katrina Ford wishes a violent death upon the era of glum audience members motionlessly watching glum bands with glum arms crossed. “I want the line between the people on stage and the people watching to be blurred,” she says. “When people on both sides cross the lines and forget their assigned roles, they forget who they are — you’ve forgotten your problems, you’ve forgotten the world, and abandoned yourself to the music and the moment.”

“Evergreen” is a great opening track, and it is just so real, one listen and you know that they believe in their music, then move on and Have a listen to “Pressure” or “Heartbreak” and it is obvious. Best of all, the production manages to stay out of the way and just let the band connect with us.

Here is some footage from Youtube

Celebration it is. Highly recommended