New York City, 1947

Ein indischer Illusionist, der sich im Hudson wiederfindet, nachdem er einem korrupten Senator sein politisches Ende prophezeit, eine österreichische Emigrantin, die nach routinemäßiger Entlausung den Protagonisten in Zahngold fragwürdiger Herkunft entlohnt, der Sohn sizilianischer Einwanderer, der bis zu seiner pyrotechnischen Himmelfahrt eine nicht ganz untypische Karriere macht, eine skandalumwitterte Hollywoodschönheit, die sich von ihrem Gönner Howard Hughes mit der Wahrheitsdroge Pentothal verwöhnen lässt…

Dies sind nur einige der skurrilen Miniaturen auf CRIME STORY TAPES, der aktuellen und mittlerweile zehnten Veröffentlichung des exzentrischen Experimental-Blasorchesters MARDI GRAS.BB.

Bumblebee

If I Could

Munster's Theme

Those were the happy childhood days, lying under the coffeetable, a substitute for the warm and dark shelter of an expedition tent, reading ”Lord Jim” to my favourite dog in the pale flare of my antique torch light.On the more fictitious side, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, Karl May, Herman Melville and Jack London, but also anything about the great explorers Da Gama, Columbus, Magellan, Amundsen, Scott, Hedin, Marco Polo, Lindbergh and Thor Heyerdahl - names provoking shivers, names that immediately took us on a trip into exotic paradises, to ”terra incognita”, to places no other being had ever seen before. 
And us, right in the middle of all that, in short trousers, with a butterfly net and a botanist’s container and having imaginary malaria. Adventure!
We were lucky enough to experience our own ”real” adventures then, travelling with our music, sometimes almost "following" our music. Meeting people, talking, listening to their stories, falling in love, at times very seriously, at times beautifully flighty and twinkle-toed.
Then the pilots and leaders of our childhood expeditions returned, mixing their fiction and coverage with our reality, provoking us to create our own fantasies and mingling all of that, creating the sweetest psychede- lic pastry the sultan has ever tasted.

Will you still be there when I need you, Winnetou? 
Is romantic the new politics? 
Will there be postcards any longer? 

------------DW

Mardi Gras.bb

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