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Browse piano sheets by The Blasting Company on Zen Virtual Piano. Half-brothers Justin Rubenstein and J.R. Kaufman founded the band in 2008, and the group later grew to anywhere from five to ten members. The Blasting Company began as a street band named Albania Mania, playing music inspired by Serbian folk songs. The brothers set out from their home state of Tennessee and toured the country, usually playing on the street with anyone who would join in. Early on, they traveled in a school bus converted to run on vegetable oil. Members came and went in that period; only Rubenstein and Kaufman stayed throughout. A bus running on vegetable oil and a lineup open to anyone can be read as a band living out of its own road, with the music made by whoever was there. Its music draws on Eastern European music, particularly Balkan music, and on New Orleans dixie. Rubenstein says series creator Patrick McHale first heard of the band when a series co-creator sent him an early demo tape. A demo tape passed from one creator to another can be read as how a street band’s sound reached a television miniseries. The band wrote the soundtrack for the television miniseries Over the Garden Wall, work that earned critical acclaim. An extended version of the soundtrack debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016. A soundtrack that was later expanded and debuted at a convention can be read as music that kept a life of its own beyond the screen.
Browse piano sheets by The Blasting Company on Zen Virtual Piano.
Half-brothers Justin Rubenstein and J.R. Kaufman founded the band in 2008, and the group later grew to anywhere from five to ten members. The Blasting Company began as a street band named Albania Mania, playing music inspired by Serbian folk songs.
The brothers set out from their home state of Tennessee and toured the country, usually playing on the street with anyone who would join in. Early on, they traveled in a school bus converted to run on vegetable oil. Members came and went in that period; only Rubenstein and Kaufman stayed throughout. A bus running on vegetable oil and a lineup open to anyone can be read as a band living out of its own road, with the music made by whoever was there.
Its music draws on Eastern European music, particularly Balkan music, and on New Orleans dixie. Rubenstein says series creator Patrick McHale first heard of the band when a series co-creator sent him an early demo tape. A demo tape passed from one creator to another can be read as how a street band’s sound reached a television miniseries.
The band wrote the soundtrack for the television miniseries Over the Garden Wall, work that earned critical acclaim. An extended version of the soundtrack debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016. A soundtrack that was later expanded and debuted at a convention can be read as music that kept a life of its own beyond the screen.
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It originally started as a street band called Albania Mania, with music inspired by Serbian folk songs, founded in 2008 by half-brothers Justin Rubenstein and J.R. Kaufman.
The soundtrack for the television miniseries, for which the band was critically acclaimed; the extended version debuted at San Diego Comic-Con in 2016.
The music of Eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans, and New Orleans dixie.