Hoots & Hellmouth with M. Shanghai String Band January 18, 2007

Equipped with recordings and an ever-growing sense of purpose, Hoots & Hellmouth are poised to expand their influence. The spirit of the music inside and among these willing vessels propels them. Their ambition goes beyond the regionbeyond the country, really. This is music for the masses. They just don't know it yet.

The M Shanghai String Band have gained a reputation around the New York City area as a must-see live act. The band alternates from five to eleven players at any given show; a tight knit extended family that performs as a true ensemble. As machine-made, mistake-free music becomes the norm, the MSSB creates music the way it used to be: heartfelt performances on the human scale, recorded live with a sense of dangerous abandon.

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