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Mucca Pazza performs live at globalFEST 2013. (Ebru Yildiz for NPR)

Mucca Pazza: globalFEST 2013

by Anastasia Tsioulcas
Jan 16, 2013 — See the 30-piece marching band give a wildly exuberant performance, recorded live at the Webster Hall Ballroom in New York City.

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Anastasia Tsioulcas

The circus came to GlobalFEST in the form of Chicago's Mucca Pazza, a group of 30 clowns who could barely be contained in the cavernous ballroom at New York City's Webster Hall. Wearing mismatched, thrift-shop marching-band getups and sporting a full range of brass, drums, violin, accordion and electric guitar — plus a gaggle of nerdy cheerleaders ("I Heart A Scientist," proclaimed one's T-shirt) — Mucca Pazza wreaks visual havoc onstage. But here's the surprise: It also puts on an incredibly tight performance, with music that's an irresistible blend of punk DIY aesthetics, a Balkan brass lilt and the irrepressible energy of good old-fashioned American high-school marching bands.

Set List

  • "Surf"

  • "Boss Taurus"

  • "Sexy Bull"

  • "Touch The Police"

  • "Cheer: You Have The Right"

  • "Rabbits And Trees"

  • "J'Accuse"

  • "Modutrongulous"

  • "Borino Oro"

  • "St. Fresca's Regret"

  • "Cheer: Verbs"

  • "Tube Sock Tango"

  • "Alarm"

  • "Habibi"

  • "Nod To Magoo"

Credits

Producers: Mito Habe-Evans, Anastasia Tsioulcas; Videographers: Christopher Parks, A.J. Wilhelm; Audio Engineer: Kevin Wait; Video Editor/Assistant Producer: Denise DeBelius; Special Thanks to: Webster Hall, globalFEST 2013; Executive Producers: Anya Grundmann, Keith Jenkins.

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