Combustible Edison
Combustible Edison were an American neo-lounge music group founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island. They were one of several lounge acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s.
Combustible Edison | |
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| Also known as | Combustible Edison Heliotropic Oriental Mambo and Foxtrot Orchestra |
| Origin | Providence, Rhode Island |
| Genres | Lounge, exotica, jazz, swing |
| Years active | 1991–1999 |
| Labels | Sub Pop |
| Members | Miss Lily Banquette (Liz Cox) Michael "The Millionaire" Cudahy Nick Cudahy Mr. Peter Dixon Aaron Oppenheimer Michael "Laughing Boy" Connors Robert "Brother Cleve" Toomey |
| Website | Official website |
Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works by Esquivel, Henry Mancini and Martin Denny. Said Trouser Press, "As the band that poured the first shot in the Cocktail Revolution, this Boston-area combo brought lounge music into the '90s—or, more accurately, transported tastemakers back to the suburbia of the '50s—with strikingly authentic interpretations of some of the most unauthentic sounds known to mankind."
The band ended in 1999.