About the CD:

FLEISCHEREI: Music From Max Fleischer Cartoons

Next to Walt Disney, Max Fleischer is the best known cartoonist of the 20th century, creating and contributing to American culture the one and only BETTY BOOP. In addition to creating Betty, Fleischer Studios brought the newspaper comic Popeye the Sailor and the cast there to (animated) life.

Fleischer cartoons were very different from Disney cartoons. The Fleischer approach was sophisticated, focused on surrealism, dark humor, adult psychological elements and sexuality. The Fleischer milieu was grittier & more urban, often set in squalid tenement apartments with cracked, crumbling plaster and threadbare furnishings. Even the jazz music on Fleischer's soundtracks was rawer, saucier and more genuinely reflective of the times.

Guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley) has long been a fan of Fleischer's work and has long wished to develop a project to present the music that was used in these cartoons (some of it written for the cartoons, but most of them standards of the 20s and 30s). With FLEISCHEREI, he has done exactly that.

FLEISCHEREI is a loving musical tribute to the swinging, jazzy soundtracks that adorned animation genius MAX FLEISCHER'S surreal and wacky BETTY BOOP and POPEYE cartoons of the 1930's. Featuring Gary Lucas on guitar, Tony Award Nominee Sarah Stiles on vocals, and the cream of New York City jazz musicians, FLEISCHEREI is a swirling musical melting-pot of jungle-band jazz, Tin Pan Alley torch songs, and raucous vaudeville turns.

For more information about Gary, you can visit GaryLucas.com or follow him on twitter at @LucasGary

TRACK LISTING:
1. Sweet Betty
2. Don't Take My Boop-Oop-a-Doop Away
3. That's My Weakness Now
4. I Want a Clean Shaven Man
5. Penthouse Serenade (When We're Alone)
6. The Broken Record
7. The Music Goes 'Round and Around
8. Ain't Cha
9. Brotherly Love
10. Little Pal
11. Do Something
12. Beware of Barnacle Bill

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