Started playing together in a basement in Leeds, in 2000. These days we like to increase the funk. Make it party time. With dancing. No singing. Just instruments. The Dragon Rapide have their lushly packaged 2nd studio collection now up for grabs. This is joyous & fizzy, uncompromising, optimistic, widdly, wobbly, kaleidoscopic & heart warming stuff. A great leap forward from the debut CD, musically, stylistically & in the production stakes too. There's elements of free jazz & world music here & there but all in all no threat of andy kershaw coming round your house to chew your ear off with that worthy accent. So think maybe a friskier, dizzier Tortoise jamming with small slices of Sea & Cake, Him (us), hints of Mice Parade & Five Style. Very intricate & clever stuff indeed.