Revolutionary Snake Ensemble
Simply put, this is one of the most successful combinations of booty-shaking & brain-stimulating music to be released this year, and it deserves your attention post-haste.Brett McCallon/Splendid Magazine
LATE BREAKING NEWS!! Our 5th album "Serpentine" is scheduled for September 2025 release on Cuneiform Records!!!
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Explosive!
The Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a funk/street beat improvisational brass band performing a unique blend of original and traditional music. Labeled “explosive” by the Boston Globe, two-time New England Music Award nominees Revolutionary Snake Ensemble’s most recent cd I Want That Sound! has received extensive critical acclaim, and entered the CMJ jazz radio top ten chart just two weeks after its release.
Exotic!
From 2005-2009 the Snake Ensemble traveled by train five times from Boston to New Orleans, playing on board the Amtrak Crescent, to march with the Krewe of Muses in their annual Mardi Gras parade. The Ensemble can be heard on Parade of Numbers, an animated counting piece regularly aired on the television program Sesame Street.
Eccentric!
Leader Ken Field is a saxophonist/ composer/ improviser/ one of Boston’s most dedicated and versatile musicians. Since 1988, he has been a member of Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, a New Music/ chamber rock ensemble that began as a spinoff from the legendary Mission of Burma. Field assembled an improvisational horn and percussion group in 1990 with trumpeter and cartoonist Scott Getchell to entertain at a pagan women’s ritual celebration. Field decided to continue the project, conceiving it initially as an improvisational group rooted in Boston’s free jazz/ improv scene.