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Most of this text comes straight from the band's website. Mucca Pazza, whose name comes from the Italian for "mad cow", assembled itself in the parking lot of a Chicago steel mill in 2004. Combining street theater and marching band instincts with avant-garde and rock band sensibilities, the twenty-odd piece ensemble built a cult following in the local underground music scene. Unconstrained by the rock venue format, Mucca Pazza marched into the city's world-class Millennium Park, becoming something of an unofficial Chicago mascot. Mucca Pazza went national just as the renegade marching band community blossomed into a full-fledged musical movement. With mismatched uniforms, improvised marching maneuvers, speaker helmets and deconstructed cheer-leading, Mucca Pazza trail-blazed the 'weird as we wanna be' theatrical and visual aesthetic, while exhibiting real musical talent, playing mostly through-composed original compositions that tend to land somewhere between Zappa and Morricone. Atonal harmonies, odd time signatures and labyrinthine melodies are as likely to pop up as sweet brass chords, catchy whistlers and solid grooves. They have performed nationally at many well known venues and concerts including McCarren Park Pool, True/False Film Festival, Lollapalooza, Rothbury Music Festival, the Kentucky Derby Days Parade, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and were featured on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien'' in 2006. The band has opened for Primus and The Flaming Lips, and have collaborated with Exene Cervenka and Andrew Bird. Their debut album, ''A Little Marching Band'', was released in 2006. Their second full-length album, ''Plays Well Together'', was released in June 2008. The band's song "Borino Oro" was featured in a season 4 episode of the Showtime television show ''Weeds'', and the songs "Tube Sock Tango" and "St. Fresca's Regret" were used in Season 1, Episode 8 of Amazon's''Transparent''. Their third album "Safety Fifth" was released in July, 2012 and a fourth full-length, "L.Y.A." is due out in the Fall of 2014. ==Discography== ===Albums=== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mucca Pazza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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