Alice Underground - The Cambria Sessions (2016)

Alice Underground is a time traveling caravan to an anachronistic era set in a locale that’s both familiar and fantastical. For the five members of the LA-based group, however, this has been a journey by happenstance. What was a one-off show now has the quintet chasing mythical characters and architecting a swamp cabaret aesthetic.
They whisk listeners away to an elegant underbelly teeming with deviant jazz, punk rock vigor, vaudevillian theatrics, and sensual emotionality. The group’s oeuvre varies between originals that feel like they were plucked from an American Songbook from a Tim Burton-themed time capsule, and jazz standards reimagined to showcase Alice Underground’s gift for conjuring longing and lasciviousness. The group counts as influences David Bowie, Ella Fitzgerald, Trent Reznor, and Billie Holiday. Fittingly, Alice Underground has been described as “gypsy jazz with a proto-punk edge.

Tracklist

1. Catch Me Before Midnight 3:45
2. Superman 3:54
3. La Is Burning 4:21
4. Belleville Rendez Vous 3:44
5. Dream A Little Dream 3:21
6. Hollywood Hills 3:34
7. Willow By The Sea 3:36
8. Hard To Resist 4:40
9. Tank! 5:04
10. Fly Me To The Moon 4:34
11. Seven Block Blues 5:51
12. Impromptu 2:58

Tash Cox - Vocals, Bass, Piano;
Sasha Travis - Vocals
Scott Landes - Guitar, Piano;
Gordon Bash - Standup Bass, Piano, Guitar, Vocals
Steve Kefalas - Drums, Percussion
Saxophone - Joe Berry
Cello - Eru Matsumoto
Additional guitar - Jordan Roepke