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The band Buke and Gass has a throttling yet joyful sound and a handcrafted sensibility that enraptured listeners this year and landed its album Riposte on NPR Music's list of 50 Favorite Albums of 2010. A Brooklyn-based duo, Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez play with customized homemade gear that includes heavy-duty amps, a "toe-bourine," a kick-drum with noisemakers and, of course, the modified baritone ukulele ("buke") and guitar-bass hybrid ("gass") that inspired their name.
It's this mix of ingenuity and musical experimentation that makes their metal- and prog-rock-infused music so unusual and unpredictable. "We're trying to solve a problem," Sanchez tells All Things Considered host Robert Siegel. Hide captionAron Sanchez of Buke and Gass plays the "gass" at the Tiny Desk. Ergonomic People. Buke And Gass: Tiny Desk Concert. Victor taba.