TriBeCaStan

Overall, the 16 songs here create a marvelous tapestry of world music. It is unique in modern instrumental music and a must-have for lovers of jazz and world music alike. - Yahoo!

Combining old-timey Americana and eccentric jazz with a polyglot of musical styles from across the globe, this nine-piece ensemble is an exemplar of what world music should be: infused with as many cultures as humanly possible.

Whether it's a jazz-meets-klezmer stomp or an African-Appalachian frenzy, every tune is performed with such enthusiasm and vigour that it's hard not to immerse oneself in the energy. With their everything-but-the-kitchen-sink brand of instrument selection and immediately danceable tunes, TriBeCaStan are an unstoppable force, a musical cyclone raging across the world. - Exclaim!

Blends free jazz, Afghani rhythms, boogie-woogie and Balkan wedding music with an effortless grace - RELIX

[TriBeCaStan] is untethered as their UK counterparts, [3 Mustaphas 3]. And I mean that in a good way. Their music is crisper and better arranged than ever, with musical influences from around the world blended in a way that will guarantee head-scratching answers from anyone you pressed into guessing its origins.

On the world map TriBeCaStan may be hard to find, but musically they're finding their home, and it's a wondrous land populated by sounds of all nations, living mostly in harmony. - SoundRoots

The ensemble leave no country (and its sounds) untouched. The beauty of New Deli is that as a result of musical risks and stylistic mash-ups, the listener is left with a sound that's unique. It's a sound that's distinctively TriBeCaStan. - Exclaim

You can pick out of this unique pan-cultural tapestry jazz threads from rewoven tunes by Don Cherry, Ornette Coleman, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, but there's almost no way for mere words to justly address the breadth and depth of this journey through TriBeCaStan. - All About Jazz

Not surprisingly, the anything-goes approach never lets up, and whatever sense of the silly might occasionally intrude, the fact remains that Tribecastan are damn fine musicians and they put it all together like the most hellishly heavenly world music band you’re ever going to hear. - Rootsworld

New York cultural mash-up experiment TriBeCaStan is part of a growing number of local groups like Nation Beat who dive so deep into the melting pot that borders become burned away—even the name "TriBeCaStan" is meant to evoke an imaginary republic defined by New York cool, explorer energy and outer space vibes. - The Village Voice

It’s probably fair to call TriBeCaStan strange. They’ve developed their own cosmology and music style that’s sort of Balkanish (or points further East), not unlike 3 Mustaphas 3. They’re clever, slyly humorous and technically very good indeed. They’re as comfortable with the neo-surf of “Back When Tito Had Two Legs” as on the sort of funky jam “(I Drove My Cara Down To) Baja,” featuring guest Al Kooper on the organ. They’re extremely eclectic, twisting “Wildwood Flower” around, perverting be-bop on “Dizzy In The Dunes” and journeying around the globe on “From Bamako to Malibu.” It works because they understand the groove and because they feel the music and respect the cultures they explore. Even when they get down and dirty, as on “Varaha’s Boogie,” it’s with a delicious twist. Smart, often funny, always highly accomplished, this is a disc to satisfy the head and the feet. /// 4 out of 5 stars - All Music Guide

There's no easy way to describe the distinctive sound of TriBeCaStan. Downtown-loft improv with the odd trace of Appalachian blues? Yep. Cinematic fusion jazz filtered through a North African lens? Ditto. Multiculti urban folk music steeped in Balkan, Cajun, klezmer, Gypsy and classical Indian flavors? Absolutely.

Whatever you call it, the final package is the result of an exuberant, and sometimes irreverent, collaborative effort. Cofounded by veteran ethno-enthusiast Jeff Greene and multi-instrumentalist John Kruth, TriBeCaStan has built its own mythology around a deceptively simple construct: just play music that you haven't heard yet. The group finds the futuristic in the ancient, borrowing from far-flung traditions to create sleek new hybrids and, in the restless spirit of Yusef Lateef, Don Cherry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk (the subject of a definitive biography by Kruth), flip the tables on your expectations. - TimeOut New York

The beauty of this music is that, at the same time that it might seem chaotic, it is also accessible. It comes out of the kind of jazz that employed folk melodies. It encourages you to hum along. And at the same time that it unsettles your notions of place, it invites you to partake in a more human modernity. - Huffington Post

TriBeCaStan’s members have played with everyone from James Brown to the Meat Puppets and Ornette Coleman, and it shows. The New York-based ensemble sounds like an international jazz and folk festival unto itself, fusing Balkan, Middle Eastern, Indian, Latin American and African musical elements to bold and dazzling effect. - Washington Post

Zappa-esque… genre-bending jazz and world-music - New York Times

TriBeCaStan spans centuries with its incomparable blend of traditional folk styles with rock, jazz, and other modern styles. And though its two founding members, multi-(multi-multi-)instrumentalists Jeff Greene and John Kruth, hail from lower Manhattan, their origins, naturally, seem spread across the globe.

With its third album, New Deli, the duo (along with the eight-piece TriBeCaStani FolklOrkestra) continues its spirited, genre-bending expedition with such unlikely sonic pairings as surf rock alongside avant-garde jazz and Afghani folk. Indeed, TriBeCaStan is a strange place where East meets West and old meets new. - ALARM Magazine

There's no easy way to describe the distinctive sound of TriBeCaStan. Downtown-loft improv with the odd trace of Appalachian blues? Yep. Cinematic fusion jazz filtered through a North African lens? Ditto. Multiculti urban folk music steeped in Balkan, Cajun, klezmer, Gypsy and classical Indian flavors? Absolutely.

Whatever you call it, the final package is the result of an exuberant, and sometimes irreverent, collaborative effort. Cofounded by veteran ethno-enthusiast Jeff Greene and multi-instrumentalist John Kruth, TriBeCaStan has built its own mythology around a deceptively simple construct: just play music that you haven't heard yet. The group finds the futuristic in the ancient, borrowing from far-flung traditions to create sleek new hybrids and, in the restless spirit of Yusef Lateef, Don Cherry and Rahsaan Roland Kirk (the subject of a definitive biography by Kruth), flip the tables on your expectations. - TimeOut New York