The resulting global acclaim compelled the trio to release the EP “History of Flight,” which covers compositions by the Italian soundtrack artist Ennio Morricone, the “Siamese soul” of Teun-Jai Boon Praraksa, the French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg (a favorite of Ochoa’s) and the Japanese electronic group Yellow Magic Orchestra. The group broke through when the British musician Bonobo included a Khruangbin song, the celestial “A Calf Born in Winter,” on his “Late Night Tales” mixtape in 2013. Ochoa eventually named the band after her favorite word in the Thai language she was studying - Khruangbin (ker-RAUNG-bin), or “airplane.” Speer taught her to play bass and they performed as a duo until Speer asked Johnson, who had gone from gospel organist to hip-hop producer, to provide the live break-beats that completed the Khruangbin recipe beginning in 2010. A few years later, Speer and Laura Lee Ochoa struck up a friendship over a shared interest in the music and architecture of the Middle East. John’s Methodist Church gospel band in downtown Houston. Khruangbin guitarist, Mark Speer and drummer DJ Johnson first played together nearly 18 years ago as members of the St. They will play a two-night stand at The Palace Thursday and Friday night, with saxophonist Nubya Garcia as the noteworthy opener. But their seductive juxtapositions of the exotic and the familiar inevitably and organically marinate into what has become a signature sound, one that coheres even as the trio continues to evolve.
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If you learn about Khruangbin more often than you actually hear their music, their far-flung inspirations can come off as hipper-than-thou, an esoteric pass code into the cool kids stream and mixtape. It’s merry-go-round music undergirded by “Brick House.” You don’t have to know that the guitar is influenced by highlife music that originated in Ghana and was further popularized in Nigeria – in fact the tone and tenor of the groove gradually acquires a brittle, higher-pitched quality that sounds like a calliope, even as the drum-and-bass continue laying down the beat. “So We Won’t Forget,” the lead single on the Texas trio Khruangbin’s third and most recent album, “Mordechai,” released last summer, begins with an interlocking snare drum and bumpity bass riff reminiscent of the intro to “Brick House,” the classic late-summertime funk jam from 1977.īut instead of the whistles, horns and saucy vocals that the Commodores memorably brought to the party, Khruangbin layers in a gliding, winsome guitar line and some cooing that almost sighs with joy.
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