Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

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The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players is a band from the USA (Engl., In their concerts projections of slides slideshow ) play an essential role. The band is made up of the family man Jason Trachtenburg, who plays the guitar and piano and sings, the mother Tina Piña, who operates the slide projector and is the background singer, and the daughter Rachel who plays the drums and sings. She first appeared in public when she was six years old.

Originally from Seattle ( Washington ) and now based in New York City , New York , Jason Trachtenburg described them as an “ indie, vaudeville , conceptual art, pop-rock, family slide show band. ".

The trademark of the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are the presentations of the slides they have collected at flea markets and from second-hand shops, with which they depict events from the lives of anonymous deceased strangers and provide them with music.

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The band integrates slide presentations with pictures of strangers into their performance . With the resulting shows, the musicians, referred to by the music magazine MTV as "crazy combo from New York", gained public interest not only in the USA, but also in Europe.

Discography

Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players

  • Vintage Slide Collections from Seattle, Vol 1 (2001)
  • Adventures in Middle America, Vol 2 (2004/2006)
  • Off and On Broadway (DVD, 2006)

Jason Trachtenburg

  • Revolutions Per Minute (2000)
  • Together (2006)

Individual evidence

  1. Sliding into a unique niche. Article on the San Francisco Chronicle website (September 2006).

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