Ragazzi Review

We’ve recently recieved a nice review of “Poem of the Underground” from Ragazzi – website fur erregende musik in Germany.  The original is here, fortunately we have a German in our band who has translated it for us:

In the booklet there is a photo and they look amazingly normal and well behaved, as if their sound for which they got together would not fit their pretty, young and smart faces, which makes them look like laid-back, mainstream all-world-types (dude from next door/common joe).  Nothing freaky or artistic in their looks und they smile as if they would be taking a class picture.  Musically on the other hand they are more flipped out, turbulent, extravagant and atonal than most bands playing the well established and known fields between Jazz and rock.  Sound for the Organization of Society….as weird as their name, so is their program.  Two drummers, three horns, bass, guitar, keyboards and voice talk and play harmonically smoothly arranged, I want to say, never out of the ordinary harsh composition that are more Jazz than rock, free form than modern, avant-garde and new music in a tonal jazz wrapping than jazz.  ”Rocktypical” and jazzrock harmonies play a role, NO Wave, Henry Cow, Indonesian gamelan music and blues, as Albert Ayler played it.  SOS reflects the vitality of New Orleans as mentioned in their press latter and the ongoing importance of the crescent city..  The band dedicates it’s music to the city, which lost most of it’s jazz places after Hurricane Katrina, and the musicians that lived or are still living in the city.   Astonishingly even the craziest and harshest sounds are in some ways still harmonic.   The ensemble doesn’t break the open scale in loudness, atonality or improvisatory freedom.  As well behaved as they look, so soft is the wildness of their radical pieces.  That doesn’t man that the compositions are weak or mainstream, it is the opposite.   Looks like the band tries to combine, in a harmonic and easy to follow way, alternative, disharmonic and radical melodic structures.  Surely this is not, and the term itself is already stupid: Nu free jazz.   The 12 songs always have, and the scale reaches from folkrock with melodic structure to atonal freejazz with turbulent scale passages, a contemplative and comprehensible arrangement that feel inviting, even so at first confusing.

Even Pop music doesn’t happen with just one tone.  Urgent (absolut) Recommondation!

Spring Tour is Here!

Well, it has come time again for us to journey up and down the West Coast!  Our spring tour starts Monday in Sacramento and finishes up Friday in Portland.  All the dates can be found on the “Performances” page.  There will also be occasional musings, updates, and photos at Andrew Oliver’s blog.

Come and check out a show in your city, and get a copy of our new album while you’re there, we promise not to disappoint!

Album Now Available!

We’re very excited to announce that our second album, “Poem of the Underground”, is now available from Circumvention Music, a great independent label based in San Diego.  You can find info on the album and a link to purchase here.  We’ll have the album up on iTunes very soon.  We’ll be celebrating this release with a short West Coast tour at the end of March.  Dates are on the “Performances” page.

Album Release 2/09 and Spring 09 West Coast Tour!

We are pleased to announce that we will be releasing our second album “Poem of the Undergound” on Circumvention Music in February of 2009. You can hear some excerpts from the forthcoming album on the “Sounds” page.

We will be celebrating this album release with a West Coast tour in late March and early April of 2009. More details will be posted soon!

Successful Tour!

Thanks to everyone who came to see us on our West Coast tour. It was a great success!

Stay tuned for some photos and news about our new album, “Poem of the Underground”, which will be released this fall on Circumvention Records.

Also check out the “Press” page for some great press from our recent tour.

August West Coast Tour

The Sound for the Organization of Society August West Coast tour is here! Check out the “Performances” page for our itinerary. Hope to see you at one of our shows!

New Site

Welcome to the Sound for the Organization of Society site. Here you can find information about our recordings and upcoming tour in August 2008. Enjoy…