Award-winning arranger and
composer Elvis Schoenberg, and his Orchestre Surréal, a twenty-five-piece group
of daring, top, Los Angeles studio musicians who fuse classical, jazz, rock, hip
hop, and world music into an hilarious, seductive mélange, stripping away the
barriers of cultural, generational, and artistic prejudice, and promoting the
message of open-mindedness through music.
Manic Voodoo Lady is Elvis Schoenberg's unique and
respectful tribute to the music of Jimi Hendrix, where classic songs such as
Fire are transformed into a Stravinsky-esque ballet suite, Little Wing,
featuring Ken Rosser on the pipa, becomes a visual dance of a Chinese Courtesan,
and Voodoo Child is the lair of a witch doctor with African Rhythms,
aggressive Bella Bartök-esque strings and a choir of haunting voodoo chanting.
Elvis Schoenberg's arrangements are as iconic as the songs themselves. The album
(yes, we here at RDLH still refer to them as albums!) features guitarists Scott
Henderson, Jeff Miley, Jimmy Mahlis, Kurt James and Ken Rosser; and vocalists
Angela Carole Brown, April Fissell, Nick Hernandez, and Jason Paige.