Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, with Sound One and Jon Sikich, This Ain’t Hollywood, Nov. 22/12

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (aka HBE, or Hypnotic, or The Bros) is a 8-piece, Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of 8 sons of jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran. Renowned for their ability to capture an audience with only horns and a drum set, Hypnotic has traveled the world doing just that.

HBE’s musical style is a combination of all the better parts of many different musical genres, ranging from hip-hop to jazz to funk and rock. You can even find traces of calypso and Gypsy music in their eclectic blend of sound they call
“now music”, or “Hypnotic”. Reared in the teachings of music since they were children, some of them as young as three years old, they grew up on the stage playing as the “Phil Cohran Youth Ensemble”. In many circles, theirs has been labeled the best live show and a definite must see.

They have performed with Mos Def, Aquilla Sadalla, Phil Cohran, The Recipe, Nomadic Massive, Tony Allen, Wu Tang Clan, De La Soul, Prince, Femi Kuti, Gorillaz, B52’s and at the North Sea Jazz Festival. And recorded with names ranging from Erykah Badu to Ghostface Killah of the Wu Tang Clan to Maxwell and many more. They supported Blur for their Hyde Park reunion concerts
on the 2nd and 3rd of July in 2009. And collaborated on a number of tracks from the third Gorillaz studio album, Plastic Beach. Their hit song “War” was featured in the box office smash The Hunger Games as the theme song for Caesar Flickerman.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, with Sound One and Jon Sikich
Thursday, Nov. 22/12
This Ain’t Hollywood.
345 James St. North, Hamilton
19+, Doors open at 9pm.
Advance Tickets: $25, available at This Ain’t Hollywood, and Dr. Disc.