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The Blue Noise Band can be lumped in the increasingly nebulous jazz bin, but are equal perveyors of fierce swing, demented klezmer, lumbering rock, and riotous free-jazz assaults. The band encounters no boundaries in their stylistic playing field. The Blue Noise Band played across the nation in punk clubs, traditional jazz venues, and almost everywhere in between.

Saxophonist David Lobel lived and studied music in New York before moving to Austin, where he also stood as the tenor mainstay in the Golden Arm Trio for years. Adrian Quesada comes to Austin from Laredo, Texas, where he began his studies in classical and flamenco guitar. The Blue Noise Remix Project, Adrian's instrumental hip-hop EP on Canadian label TarMedia, was released in the spring of 2000. Houston transplant Tom Benton wrestles his upright bass in a variety of Austin groups including Chris Black's Holy Ghost. Iowa N'SYNC look-alike Jeremy Bruch studied drums at the prestigous UNT music school.

Brad Green from Queens, is the follow-up to the band's critically acclaimed debut recording Multi-Purpose. The 10 tracks represent a refinement in the groups emphasis on rigorous composition and ambitious improvisation.

Lobel, Quesada and Bruch abandoned BNB to play full-time with Grupo Fantasma in 2002.