Trocadero (band)
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Trocadero is a band based in Cambridge, Massachusetts that consists of Nico Audy-Rowland, Wendy Mittelstadt, and Brandon Erdos. Other guest musicians include Philadelphia Telepants, Sandy Casey, Susan Hsia, and Karen Langlie. They are most famous for creating the theme to the popular machinima series Red vs. Blue, "Blood Gulch Blues," as well as other music for the series such as "A Girl Named Tex". Music for one of Rooster Teeth's other series, The Strangerhood, including the theme song "Crazy Zoo", is being provided by Trocadero's Audy-Rowland in collaboration with Jeff Williams.
The band is known for its diverse styles of music. Its signature element is the polyphonic blending of the voices of Nico and Wendy. Instruments used by the band include drums, several kinds of keyboards, vocals, piano, violin, viola, guitars, and banjos. The song genres are even more diverse; the band's first CD includes tracks that are strongly influenced by the blues, disco, spirituals, western narrative, and many types of rock. In addition, one of the songs, "Oh Five!", is a brief Hawaiian intermission piece.
A second CD is currently in works and is set to be released later in 2006. The song "Alien Champion", which plays during the end credits of the Red vs. Blue season 3 DVD, will be included on the CD.
[edit] Roses are Red, Violets are Blue
In 2004, Trocadero released its first CD, entitled Roses are Red, Violets are Blue: Songs From and Inspired by Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles. The CD contains the following tracks:
- Intro
- Blood Gulch Blues
- Steady Ride (Gun Metal Green)
- Spiritual
- No One
- Funny Farm
- A Girl Named Tex
- Punch It
- Space Invader
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- Superhero
- Vale Deah
- All As One
- Oh Five!
- Half Life
- BATE
