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Shanghai, the eclectic and lively collection of oddballs provide a crazy musical zapping of tangling brass, cinematic nostalgic moods and cartoon delusions. Purveyors of the film-rock-mutant-metal-jumpcut-cabaret styling that has something for everyone, Shanghai ignite drama, humour, and confuse their audience’s dancing shoes. Formed by musical director Luis Rojas (winner of the 2004 National MusicOz Award for Best Rock Artist with his band The Locus Scene) in the mid 90’s, Shanghai is a nine piece avant garde experimental progressive art rock band from Sydney, Australia...which has been said to reside in the same musical world inhabited by the likes of Frank Zappa, Naked City (John Zorn), Ennio Morricone, The Residents and Mr Bungle. After regular live appearances around Sydney and releasing the debut EP Esoterica in the early 2000’s, the band took a hiatus for the first half of the decade as band members travelled globally and focused on other projects. Spurred by continuing