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Skin: "Heart & Soul" revolutionarysnake 48 views Circa 1983-1985 performance by Boston-based psychedelic funk band Skin (Ric Rondeaux/gtr/vox, Karlo Takki/keys, Rob Zammarchi/bass, Jay Potts/drms, John Ferry/tbn, Ken Fiel...
Good Value.mov revolutionarysnake 209 views Ken & Karen in a Roswell, NM produced local tv ad for pickup trucks, circa 1995! (Produced by Carl Erdmann/Nash Street Media)
Darkened Horizons revolutionarysnake 640 views A film by students at the June 2010 summer art camp at Sidney Gutierrez Middle School in Roswell, NM, under the direction of Boston-based animator Karen Aqua and composer K...
Roswell Art Institute 2010 revolutionarysnake 70 views A short animation & soundtrack created by teachers from the Roswell Independent School District who participated in the June 9-10, 2010 "Abstraction to Animation" Summer Ar...
Flow revolutionarysnake 152 views A film by June 2010 Animation/Soundtrack Workshop participants at Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT) in Somerville, MA, under the direction of Boston-based animator Kare...
Animal, Vegetable, Mythical revolutionarysnake 520 views A film by June 2009 Animation Workshop participants at Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT) in Somerville, MA, under the direction of Boston-based animator Karen Aqua and ...
Urban Jumble revolutionarysnake 589 views A film by November 2008 Animation Workshop participants at Somerville Community Access TV (SCAT) in Somerville, MA, under the direction of Boston-based animator Karen Aqua ...
Branded! revolutionarysnake 234 views A workshop project of Sheridan Filmmakers, Sheridan, Wyoming, under the direction of Karen Aqua (animation) & Ken Field (soundtrack)
Roswell: Not Just Aliens! revolutionarysnake 2,642 views A film by 3rd & 5th grade students at El Capitan and Military Heights Elementary Schools in Roswell, NM, under the direction of Boston-based animator Karen Aqua and compose...
In the Shadows of Monadnock revolutionarysnake 2,068 views A film by the 7th grade at Mountain Shadows, Dubin, NH, under the direction of Boston-based animator Karen Aqua and composer Ken Field. Made with support from The MacDowel...

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"one of the most successful combinations of booty-shaking & brain-stimulating music to be released this year, and it deserves your attention post-haste." - Splendid

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Formed in 1990, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is an improvisational brass band with influences ranging from free jazz to New Orleans second line to contemporary funk. Leader Ken Field, a longtime member of the modern music ensemble Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, originally formed the group with trumpeter and cartoonist Scott Getchell to entertain at a pagan women's ritual celebration. The success of that performance and subsequent club and concert appearances over the next decade finally convinced Field to bring the group into the studio in 2002, resulting in the release of "Year of the Snake" on Innova Recordings in 2003. That CD received considerable public, radio, and press acclaim, and was included on best-of-year lists from NPR affiliate WNYC Radio in New York City, the Gambit Weekly in New Orleans, and Radio Popolare in Milan, Italy. "Year of the Snake" included treatments of music by Field, Sun Ra, John Scofield, James Brown, and others. Liner notes were contributed by two-time Grammy-winning New Orleans music producer Scott Billington.

Cuneiform Records released the group's second CD, "Forked Tongue", in May 2008. The recording of "Forked Tongue" took place during 2006 at Boston's legendary Mortal Music Studios. The CD was remixed by the Minneapolis-based Balanced Production team of Chris Strouth and Brian Jacoby, and mastered in Los Angeles by Bob Demaa. The disc includes unique arrangements of music by such diverse songwriters as Billy Idol, Ornette Coleman, and Norman Span, as well as original material by Field. Guest musicians include vocalist Gabrielle Agachiko performing a stunning minor key rearrangement by Field of the traditional classic Down By the Riverside.

"Forked Tongue" hit the CMJ jazz charts in its first week out. The New Yorker selected the Snakes' NYC release gig as their nightlife pick of the week in the 5/19/08 issue.

Notable Revolutionary Snake Ensemble appearances have included the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (DC), the Krewe of Muses Mardi Gras Parade (New Orleans), the Cambridge River Festival, ArtBeat, the Central Square World's Fair, Tonic (NYC), the Somerville Theater, First Nights Boston, Providence, & Fall River, the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Puffin Cultural Forum, the Big Top (New Orleans), Berklee Performance Center, and numerous other venues.

The Ensemble can be heard on Parade of Numbers, an animated counting piece regularly aired on the television program Sesame Street.

Repeatedly nominated in their Best Music Poll by the Boston Phoenix and WFNX Radio, the group has also been twice nominated by a panel of music writers and critics for a Boston Music Award.

The Snakes have traveled annually to New Orleans on the Amtrak Crescent train for the past four years, performing on the train along the way.

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