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Toy Soldiers

by Cocek! Brass Band

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Each month in 2018 Cocek! Brass Band is releasing a new song with different artist and musician collaborations. The June release features artwork by Kendall Eddy.

A 10-year-old boy's birthday party with gifts, cake, friends and family.
This matters little to these battle hardened soldiers..

Artist Statement:
Like most young boys in the US, I grew up playing with those little green army men that came in big pails in many different poses and brandishing various forms of artillery. I would stage battles centered around the bathtub, in which every soldier eventually ended up in the drink. Thankfully, I had no concept of breathing or how weapons work (not to mention what soldiers really did with themselves), so everybody ended up alive and piled cozily back in the bucket-shaped barracks where they belonged. Now that I’m a bit older (and a little bit more mature), I can appreciate the absurdity of children playing war with little green plastic men. With this image I wanted to bring out the silliness of the whole idea, with a bit of lighthearted nostalgia for the innocence of childhood. The image imagines the story told from the soldier’s perspective, as the character in the foreground is deeply embroiled in the action unfolding at the fingertips of its gigantic generalissimo.

Kendall Eddy Biography:

Kendall Eddy is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn, NY. He rediscovered his childhood passion for drawing after years as a working bassist in Boston and New York, and strives to channel that musicality into making his images vibrate. When he isn’t drawing and painting, Kendall teaches both music and art, and also enjoys writing during the many hours spent in the belly of New York’s subterranean transit system. The rest of the time, he spends seeking out the many oases of green spaces scattered throughout the concrete jungle he calls home.

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released June 27, 2018
Sam Dechenne - Trumpet
Ezra Weller - Flugelhorn
Clayton DeWalt - Trombone
Jim Gray - Tuba
Grant Smith - Tapan Drum

Illustration - Kendall Eddy

Music composed by Sam Dechenne
copyright: Sam Dechenne Publishing

Recorded by Joel Edinberg at ZUMIX
Mixed by Joel Edinberg at Slow Cooker Studios
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice

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