Integrated Roots Band

Integrated Roots Band is a chamber ensemble of young musicians, versed and committed to creating an authentic repertoire designed with beauty and good vibration. Formed in 1998, Integrated Roots Band believes that exceptional compositions are the outcome of calculation and conscious invention balanced with inspirational spontaneity.

Here, the most difficult challenges are being mastered with an enormous free play of the imagination. Orchestrating diverse elements together into space-time continuity; projecting sounds, even random ones, and any compositional rhetoric into a pleasing construction, because we understand that it isn't the notes that make music (that is just noise), rather, it is the spaces between the notes that matter.

Traditional acoustic instruments are well integrated into our music. The instruments chase each other at high speed and head-to-head interplay. The rhythms are strong enough to stimulate the spine. Xylophones breathe melody, while drums and percussive treats back up the intensity.

There is also a solid beat and brassy arrangement with tricky relays. It can surge with the wild force of raging horns and breakneck solo runs. Sweetening effects such as strings and multiple vocal harmonies create a plush, sophisticated atmosphere. A vibrant voice expresses the music and makes it sparkle invitingly. Arguably, it has the most lively and original voices far and wide, sung straight from the heart and speaks irresistibly to the ears.

Even the unprepared listener can penetrate at first what is actually going on, despite the multiple intellectual levels and complexity.

The scope of this project is enormous, with a mix of songs to please the purist as well as the populist.