This page contains a brief overview on the album CIRCUS CONTRAPTION: Grand American Traveling Dime Museum. Learn more about the artist and explore the track lists and website. If you find any information that needs to be corrected, please let us know.

 
Circus Contraption is an honest-to-goodness, one-ring traveling circus based in Seattle, Washington. No circus worth its salt would venture out without a live band, and Circus Contraption has one of the best around, churning out loony-croony, quirky-jerky, gypsy carnival opera music. They create "grandly kaleidoscopic" music incorporating vocals, accordion, banjo, guitar, bass, clarinet, piano, saxophone, musical saw, trumpet, trombone, tuba, washboard, drums, beer bottles, rusty junk and elbow grease.

Grand American Traveling Dime Museum presents music from the show of the same name, which debuted in 2004. The show and its music earned glowing praise and sellout crowds in Seattle and San Francisco. In 2005, a remount of the show returns to Seattle before heading east for a five-week run in New York City.

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How do others describe the band and its music?

"Wildly creative" - Seattle Times

"An amazing circus orchestra" - Bay Guardian

"Freakin' stellar" - East Bay Express

"A lurid hurdy-gurdy hybrid of Fellini movie soundtracks and Tom Waits." - The Stranger

"With amazing skill and versatility, Circus Contraption combines frolicking rhythms with sinister words and melodies." - Seattle P-I

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.CircusContraption.com

Track List:
1. Wicked Fascinations
2. Charmed, I'm Sure
3. Nickelodeon
4. Hoochie Coochie Girls
5. The Race Is On
6. Red Noodle
7. French Postcards
8. Drunkard's Dream
9. Hot Potato
10. Mendel the Magnificent
11. Hot Coals
12. The Odditorium
13. Loligo's Pickled Punks
14. Acrophelia's Lament
15. Throw the Bones
16. The Bird Girl
17. Over the Rails
18. Xylem and Phloem
19. Lucifer and Luminitsa
20. Carousel

Other Genres:

• JAZZ: Dixieland
• EASY LISTENING: Cabaret
• MOOD: QUIRKY