The Hellblinki Sextet
MUMUR  09-01-06
Friday, September 29th -10pm
The Hellblinki Sextet
At The Jinx
[thejinx.net]
121 W. Congress St.

Rolling their bizarre carnival wagons into The Jinx from Augusta on September 15th is a band of gypsies, pagans, heathens, and face-painted oddities. The Hellblinki Sextet plays something they describe as "pirate blues." Musically they land somewhere between Tom Waits' LP Swordfish Trombones and a back alley lounge band that plays on cans and bottles instead of actual instruments. The drummer/guitarist fronted group blends music with performance art, and their rusty rollercoaster clankety-clank sound seems torn straight from an abandonded fair scene in any B-movie thriller.
I can't reccomend this show enough; I've been wanting to see this band again since the first time I laid eyes and ears upon them. It's a unique textural experience in sight and sound that can't really be explained properly on the printed page.  Anyone who makes dirty harmonies for pirates in 2006 should instantly grab your attention.
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