After the release of their 5-track EP ‘Band of Scallies’ (10″ vinyl/download) and a successful releasetour, Scallymatic Orchestra is now ready to take on offers for this festival season. For those of you who missed their shows, no worries cause there’s a brand new video giving you a good impression of what party to expect! Go check
Finally it’s there, the long awaited new Scallymatic Orchestra album to honor Jimi Hendrix, released on – what would have been – his seventieth birthday. Name and artwork of the new project have been revealed. The album is going to be called ‘Band of Scallies’! There’s only one problem: the band didn’t get permission from the Hendrix
De 40ste sterfdag van gitaargod Hendrix was voor gitarist/arrangeur Mathijs Duringhof de aanleiding om het werk van deze legende eens flink te Scallymatiseren voor zijn Scallymatic Orchestra. Op Jimi’s 70ste geboortedag presenteren zij dan nu: Band of Scallies. De cross-over van vintage grooves met soul & jazz, de energie en ‘space’, muzikaliteit en experiment, de
After playing the Hendrix repetoire for over a year now, and dealing with some line-up changes, Scallymatic Orchestra is finishing up the album. Recordings are done, mixing is in progress. The album release is due in October 2012 on Flyin’ High Records. In the mean time the band acquired a new singer. The brilliant Soul
Scallymatic Orchestra plays the music of Jimi Hendrix. Do not expect the usual guitar show, however. SO deconstructs and rebuilds the music according to their own laws. In these heavily Scallymatised versions sometimes only the words and melody have been left intact. But watch out: Scallymatic Orchestra rocks more than ever on this project. The
“I wish I’d had a chance to play with Jimi. But that’s okay – he’s playing with Coltrane now.” Miles Davis at Hendrix’ funeral, september 1970. Jimi Hendrix passed away 40 years ago, but his music is still relevant and an inspiration to many. Hendrix himself has always been inspired by the jazz and soul of his
After the release of their album ‘Annie get your Gun’, Scallymatic Orchestra is really hittin’ it. It has been ‘album of the week’ on national Radio 6 which also resulted in some live appearance on the show as you can see here on Scallymatic TV. In the near future Scallymatic can be enjoyed mainly abroad as
New at Music & More is the Scallymatic Orchestra, a growing force on the Dutch (nu-)jazz scene ever since they started out in 2000. Their fresh mix of jazz with soul-, funk- and 70s grooves has a distinct modern sound as you can hear when checking them out or… when enjoying their latest release called ‘Annie get