Get a free download when you sign up for our monthly newsletter by clicking on the icon below!
The Panache Orchestra: Trio Format
The Panache Orchestra suggests turning off your cell phones and your useless genres. If you must have labels, perhaps Brenda K's classical violin and Chi Saito's rhythm-driven acoustic guitar and dramatic instrumental compositions are "Rattling the Chamber-Music Cage." Or "Anime Beatnik Combo." Another label might be simply "Beautiful." Woven into TPO's DNA are strands of The Beatles, Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli , Mahavishnu Orchestra, and traditional music of Europe and Japan shaken up with a shot of vintage rock 'n roll, and as the night grows longer and the cocktails accumulate, a dynamic, swashbuckling romanticism emerges.
The Panache Orchestra, whose music and creative process is a study of polarity and extremes, came about through a totally implausible combination of events and people: a random encounter in a Tokyo sushi bar in 1998 of two semi-retired professional instrumentalists: Brenda K of San Diego, CA and Chi Saito of Tokyo, Japan, and a strange dream.
