Cocktail Party Phenomenon

Artist Information

Biography

Cocktail Party Phenomenon is a six-piece progressive/jam/fusion band based in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Since 2010, they have been featured in Relix Magazine's "On The Rise" section as well as Relix's monthly CD sampler alongside songs by Gregg Allman and Keller Williams. They have played with the likes of Tea Leaf Green, Splintered Sunlight, and Umphrey's McGee. Last year, they recorded and released a four-song EP entitled "Making Faces," have performed official pre-and-after-parties in Philly for bands like Umphrey's McGee, Dark Star Orchestra, and G. Love & Special Sauce, and more recently, opened for Big Something and Dopapod.

In their short time together, Cocktail Party Phenomenon has been widely praised for their complex, genre-bending compositions interwoven with skillfully dynamic improvisations, as well as for their spot-on covers. Consistently impressive gigging and festival appearances throughout New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have earned them a reputation as a go-to party band in the Philly jam scene, where they now headline regularly.

The guys of CPP have come together from varying musical backgrounds to produce a unique, mature sound covering any and every genre. They are currently recording their first full-length LP, due out this summer as they hit the festival circuit.

Instrumentation

Steve Catania - Vocals, Slide/Rhythm Guitar
Dan Enden - Vocals, Bass
Mike Gardner - Piano/Organ/Keyboards
Max Young - Drums
Adam Jaskol - Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone

Discography

Albums:
The Sky Is Blue EP (2010)
Live at The Stone Pony (2010)
Summer Sampler (2011)
Making Faces (2012)
Making Faces (deluxe edition) *(2012)
Shaken, Not Spun (2013)


airplay:
Dutch Guts - featured on January/February 2011 Relix Magazine sampler
Dutch Guts > Friend Is A Four Letter Word [Cake] (live) - featured on WDNR 89.5
The Engineer - featured on WTSR 91.3
First Original - Featured on WDNR 89.5; WTSR 91.3
Zesty Green Goddess - featured on WTSR 91.3
Steady (live) - featured on WESU 88.1
Dutch Guts -> First Original - featured WESU 88.1
Lucidity - featured on WTSR 91.3

Official Website

http://www.cppmusic.net

Links

• Facebook
• Last.fm
• Official

Audio

• Mask Jeeves
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• Rumblestiltskin
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• Lucidity
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• First Original
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• The Engineer
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• Further Business
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Video

Cocktail Party Phenomenon RUMBLESTILTSKIN 1-12-13.mp4

Cocktail Party Phenomenon - Wappy Sprayberry (Umphrey's McGee).mp4

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Press

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  Formed in southern Jersey, CPP is comprised of five young, unique musicians from a variety of musica...Formed in southern Jersey, CPP is comprised of five young, unique musicians from a variety of musical backgrounds. From funk and rock, to jazz, reggae and trance, CPP combines a multitude of feels and grooves to form their refreshingly original sound, never hesitating to improvise a jam.

Setlist

(no set order)

A New One
Away
Before The Beginning
Burgio Blues
Daily Grind Joe
Dutch Guts
The Engineer
The Equalizer
First Original
Further Business
Last Stand For Planet Earth
Live It Up
Lucidity
The Lure
Mask Jeeves
Old School
On The Brink
Pretty Things
Poetry And Prose
Relax
Road to Recovery
Rumblestiltskin
Scuttle Boogie
Steady
Thingamajig
What If It's True?
Zesty Green Goddess

Covers:
2001 (Phish)
2x2 (Umphrey's McGee)
40's Theme (Umphrey's McGee)
#41 (Dave Matthews Band)
96 Quite Bitter Beings (CKY)
Andy's Last Beer (Umphrey's McGee)
Ants Marching (Dave Matthews Band)
Cemetary Walk II (Umphrey's McGee)
Cities On Flame With Rock And Roll (Blue Oyster Cult)
Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz)
Come Together (The Beatles)
Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
Dazed And Confused (Led Zeppelin)
Don't Drink The Water (Dave Matthews Band)
Down With Disease (Phish)
First Tube (Phish)
Free (Phish)
Friend Is A Four Letter Word (Cake)
Gonna Fly Now (Theme from "Rocky")
Harry Hood (Phish)
Heartbreaker (Led Zeppelin)
Help On The Way/Slipknot! (Grateful Dead)
Hey Bulldog (The Beatles)
Hoedown (Bela Fleck and the Flecktones)
Lady Marmalade (LaBelle)
Life During Wartime (Talking Heads)
Miss Tinkle's Overture (Umphrey's McGee)
Moondance (Van Morrison)
Mulche's Odyssey (Umphrey's McGee)
The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Peaches En Regalia (Frank Zappa)
Prelude (Billy Joel)
Purple Stain (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Rolling In The Deep (Adele)
Roses Are Free (Ween)
Set Fire To The Rain (Adele)
Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes)
Sex Machine (James Brown)
Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel)
Split Open And Melt (Phish)
Thriller/Another Brick In The Wall (Michael Jackson/Pink Floyd)
The Triple Wide (Umphrey's McGee)
Wappy Sprayberry (Umphrey's McGee)
Welcome Home (Coheed and Cambria)
Whipping Post (Allman Brothers Band)
Woke Up This Morning (Alabama 3)

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