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Topic: Sonic Crowd at Brooklyn Sound Room |
Laurence Pangaro
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Brooklyn, NY
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Posted 24 Nov 2014 5:18 am |
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So I was back home in the States for a bit a few months back, and while I was in Brooklyn my friend Matt called me up and said I should come over and play in a jam session at his new studio which he calls The Brooklyn Sound Room. So I pulled a steel out of the closet at my sister's place. The strings had turned black and gritty with oxidizing funk!
Anyway, a video of the first take is now on YouTube. It's a pretty interesting mix of musicians. This is the first time I've ever posted any of my playing here.... I hope you enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYsWyxGyBCg
ciao,
Laurence
p.s. It's not really mainstream steel kinda stuff. I can't really nail down a genre here... alternative ambient free-for-all? |
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Adrienne Clasky
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Florida, USA
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Posted 24 Nov 2014 7:18 am
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Great stuff! Alternative Ambient, your time has come.
Thanks for posting. |
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Brad Bechtel
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San Francisco, CA
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Posted 24 Nov 2014 10:43 am
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That sounds like a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing!
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Laurence Pangaro
From:
Brooklyn, NY
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Posted 25 Nov 2014 5:26 am
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Thanks guys! It was fun. We did a lot of playing/recording that night, but only the first bit had video. The Bruno Fuzz Machine came out a bit later.
Adrienne, lemme know if you thinks there's a better genre name for this stuff... ya know just in case we need to fit into a radio format.
Laurence |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Nov 2014 6:57 am
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I thought it really neat, quite ECMMY if you know what I mean. ECM-ey?  What I especially like is you guys realizing you don't all have to be playing, and leading, all at once. Like sometimes it's the acoustic guitar doing the heavy lifting, sometimes you pick it up.... it's virtually mature sounding! I've been really interested in Eivind Aarset & his "Sonic Codex" stuff - he has a steel guitarist Bjorn Charles Dreyer with him sometimes.
I of course detest labels as much as all label-detesting people must, but - I've actually had a bit of luck finding stuff under the "Post-Miles" rubric. I believe it essentially refers to what would've or could've happened after "In a Silent Way" turned into "Bitches Brew" and then... commercialism set up "fusion" to fail and then... disco slaughtered the minds of an entire generation.  Like, how the Arabs sort-of preserved the ancient classical knowledge while Yoo-rope did that little Dark Ages thing, the Scandanavians kept the thread alive while we-all had to act retarded for a quarter-century....(?)
There's also what's called "post-rock" bands like Red Sparowes, who employ a great deal of steel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDWBR-TZ6yI
I'm actually enamored of Miles' own Eighties stuff, he got stuff outta John Scofield, Mike Stern & Robben Ford they've never topped since. There's Jon Hassell, Paul Motion....
But if you're looking for companionship here, this is the all-time most useful steel guitar forum thread of all time: "Different Styles" -
http://bb.steelguitarforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=208507
If you pick through this, you'll find a couple of dozen people and/or aggregates sniffin' up some similar alleys - I would suggest adding yourseffs. It becomes almost label-less, except maybe called - "real good music."
Just at random off of there -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_SUG9wlyvE&feature=related |
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Laurence Pangaro
From:
Brooklyn, NY
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Posted 26 Nov 2014 1:03 pm
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Hey David,
"ECM-y" and "virtually mature".... Thanks! I'll take it.
And thanks for the links and names. Some things I know and some I didn't until now. A lot to chew on. Also thanks for reminding me about that other thread; I'd seen it before - it's sort of a compendium for all things steel and non-traditional. I'll post a link over there too, and later spend some time checking out some good music!
ciao,
Laurence |
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