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Size: 6,973kb, uploaded 2/5/2011 9:29:37 PM
Genre: Jazz/Blues / Playing Style: Unknown/None Chosen
Free jazz, involving electric mandolin, electric bass, drums, and two large parrots. This was one of many free form jams created in 2007-2008 by calling the key, meter, and rhythm a few seconds before beginning to play. The parrots loved to sing along. This is an exclusive, too - this recording has never been uploaded anywhere before. See http://www.mandolinmaniac.com/articles/3.aspx for more info and music by the Pharm Boys. The Pharm Boys featured the late, great Bill Gracie on digital drums, the talented Ben Piner on electric bass, and Tim Prosser the Mandolin Maniac on electric, solid body Rickenbacker mandolin (or Les Paul Studio guitar on some of the Pharm Boy recordings).
ccravens Says:
Sunday, February 6, 2011 @10:48:14 AM
I tried hard to hear the mandolin content....
timprosser Says:
Monday, February 7, 2011 @5:13:30 AM
Hmmm ... Is it that hard to hear the high pitched instrument? The only other instruments on the track are the bass and goofy digital drums (and the parrots). I don't know how you could miss the electric mandolin. I admit this total improvisation is bizarre, but it's an exercise in instantaneous creativity. (listening ...) Damn, those parrots are weird sounding (but then so is everything else on this track).
ccravens Says:
Monday, February 7, 2011 @10:52:30 AM
It reminds me of some of the "free jazz" stuff of the 1960s. You know the Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry kind of stuff.
And yes, the parrots are a little wierd sounding! Wierd isn't necessarily bad.
timprosser Says:
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 @5:17:57 PM
I guess the important things are that it was a blast to do and an intensively creative thing. It's not like much else you'll hear, I think, and it did have the 60's free jazz spirit, taking musical risks. I'd like to get another small group together to do this creativity challenge thing some more. It's a great exercise for your esthetic sense to let the music flow like that, but to do it well requires a pretty good feel for the instrument, too. I make no claims to being better than anyone else, but sure got a kick out of this. And it fits my personal motto: Why mess around?
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