APOCALYPSO TANTRIC BOYS CHOIR
Funkadelia with a Jazz Underbelly on Roller Skates
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The Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir is Jimmy Moore on guitars and bass, Eric Hurlin on bass and keyboards including accordion, and David Hurlin on percussion. Eddie Raines contributes tenor saxophonics.

This eclectic trio plus sax has been together five years now. They can do anything from dinner music to dancehall funk and everything in between (pancake breakfasts to main stage limelight to Mardi Gras parades).

Funk on accordion?

Eric turned down a scholarship from the Berklee School of Music to pursue live performance. He has the gift and a masterful touch. When he’s doing his thing on accordion, it’s a thing of beauty and it ain’t nothing like your grandma’s polka.

David has recently returned from an intensive study of the tablas in Delhi, India where he played five hours a day under the tutelage of one of India’s top tabla masters. He is currently studying marching snare drum techniques with a revered competition stick master who was center snare for the esteemed Santa Clara Vanguard. David’s smile is pure Elvin Jones and his poetry eats the bark off of trees.

Jimmy’s been in many bands for many years including the acoustic eclectic Sage with uillean pipes and cello, who have performed on KUNI’s “Live from Studio One,” CSPS in Cedar Rapids, the Friday Night Concert Series on the Ped Mall in Iowa City, as well the Mill; blues band the Diamondbacks, who opened for Bo Diddley, Lonnie Brooks and L’il Ed and the Blues Imperials; the Jimmy Moore Band out of Allentown, PA, and a host of others. The Madison, Wisconsin native is also a poet and an avowed peace activist.

Eddie Raines, hailing from Maryland via San Diego via Virginia, adds purples and swales on tenor saxophone and legendary suave. You haven’t heard “Hey Joe” till you’ve heard it done with Eddie’s righteous sax-ification.

Witnessing these guys relate to one another with their fingers, hands, ears and hearts is an indescribable and joyful thing, especially the sixth-sense, symbiotic, turn-on-a-dime finely-tuned synchronicity between brothers David and Eric Hurlin on drums and bass/accordion. Apocalypso (de) facto bandleader Jimmy Moore directs the fray with a genial somnolence and scratchy blown guitar etchings.

After a Green Room gig in Iowa City with the Diplomats of Solid Sound, lead guitarist Doug Roberson summarized the Tantric Boys Choir sound as “the JB’s on the bottom with a little Jimi Hendrix on top.”

Don’t let the unusual name throw you—these guys deliver the goods, and have a blast doing it. Be careful or you may find yourself inadvertently dancing in a conga line down the middle of the street in an impromptu Apocalypso parade, singing, “Every day feels like Friday when you’re doing what you love!”


For info:
Jimmy Moore
jmc@lisco.com

www.atbcmusic.com
cell: 641 919-6955