Genghis Barbie Holidaze

If you liked their Grinch last year, you'll love Genghis Barbie's newest video:



They have a new holiday album out now.

New Release from Genghis Barbie

The new cd by Genghis Barbie is a real delight!

Seeing a release of four French Horns, one might expect Robert Schumann's Concert Piece for Four Horns, or an arrangement of themes from Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungen.  You might not also guess that a group considers their arrangements right up there with their fashion sense - but this is Genghis Barbie, the "leading post post feminist feminist all female horn experience"!

This 10 track eponymous release goes from A-ha to Sisqo and includes fun outtakes, some humorous and some not so good.  The music making is a complete home run.

Especially gorgeous is a cover of Sam Phillips' Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us (made popular by Allison Kraus and Robert Plant). Their signature Thong Song by Sisqo is included as well as a charming arrangement of Toto's Africa - that is unfortunately followed by a live outtake of the Ride of the Valkyries. I actually love the Wagner but the sound is rotten, and the playing is not as stellar as the rest of the release. The spoken introduction for the Sisqo is hilarious, and certainly the charm of the Barbies lies not only in their playing but in their humor.

On the other hand, the comic who follows 57821 by Janelle Monáe is seemingly out of place before Lady Gaga's Bad Romance, unless you figure he is just plain Bad.

Overall, Genghis Barbie's debut cd is a real success and one can only expect more great things from this modern French Horn quartet! (I predict they'll be on Ellen soon.)
The Barbie's debut cd will be available here as well as iTunes.
- John Clare, TPR Announcer/Host of Classical Spotlight

Happy Horn New Year

Here's to a bright new shiny year, 2011! Enjoy the latest from Genghis Barbie, a modern horn quartet:

They also have a new website, http://genghisbarbie.com/
and will be live on radio January 12th here: http://sevenseconddelay.blogspot.com/ on WFMU 91.1FM, Jersey City, NJ & 90.1FM, Mount Hope, NY.

They play Lady Gaga too

Horn quartets are fairly rare these days, so imagine the surprise of seeing something in the NY Times about a new horn quartet...and one that not only plays new music but pop music as well!

KPAC's John Clare actually met one of the members this summer at a music festival, small world!