While driving down Orange St to this show, I passed an odd looking quartet of young men. Something about them, their clothes, their hair, just made clear they weren’t from around here. They weren’t, they were the Mauskovic Dance Band, an Amsterdam-based dance groove collective. The brainchild of Nikola Mauskovic, MDB consisted of drummer, guitar/bongos, bass, and synths/vocals. The music was a stew of Afro- Carribean rhythms mixed with dance dub disco beats. The vocals may have been Dutch, or gibberish, it didn’t seem to matter. The tunes ebbed and swelled with bongos and percussion, with squiggly synth lines and huge muscular bass. The bass player wore a Prince shirt which was apt. Nikola does double duty as drummer for the Turkish psych groove outfit Altin Gun. It became clear that no one in MDB spoke English, as it was tough for them to even eke out a Thank You. I marveled at the drive of four young men trotting the globe sharing their hypnotic groove, good show to an underwhelming crowd.
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