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Ex Orkest
Een Rondje Holland (Ex Music)
Rather than simply grafting cheesy strings to original songs, these Dutch noiseniks have bent a 20-piece orchestra to their own polyrhythmic, cacophonous needs. The result is pure sonic excess. Latinate brass fanfares slur, goaded by jagged slashing from cellos as the five members of The Ex raise a tumult. The music is a delirious pummeling, all energy and rhythm on cuts like “Kokend Asfalt” (which is a reworked “State of Shock” from “Scrabbling at the Lock” with cellist Tom Cora) or the Stravinsky-meets-Stooges “Meer Nieuws” (which alters “River,” from “Dizzy Spells”).