With a name that’s a play on “Groucho Marx” and the promise of flying saucers and marching bands at your live shows, you’d better be prepared to deliver the goods. Oucho Sparks formed five years ago as a prog-jazz fusion collective and released 3 acclaimed records before taking an indefinite hiatus in 2004 and setting up a home recording studio (Studio Ballistico, which has spat out some of the more important Chicago recordings of the last few years, including Bound Stems and Tom Schraeder & His Ego). Indefiniteness has ended, and the 8-piece outfit that many of Chicago’s finest session musicians call home is ready to step into the now with their most accessible recording yet. Foreign Cars and Robots is all dance-synth fueled rhythmic shifts, grandiose walls of Queen-like drama, and playfully creative, deceptively dark melodies that recall a wide range of weird and wonderful influences - from Weezer to Tom Waits to Yes (and back again).
MP3: Oucho Sparks - People I Love
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