Alembic Guitars Club
Connecting => Community => Gigs => Topic started by: hieronymous on November 02, 2023, 08:30:06 AM
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I "discovered" an amazing musician - Brian Wong - he has been playing koto for 35 years, and plays Shakuhachi and other instruments as well. I put discovered in quotes, because he has been around here in the SF Bay Area longer than I have (born and raised) but I just played with him for the first time recently. The first time I played electronics, but the other night played bass with him for the first time - here's a taste:
The video is just the raw audio from my iPhone, but I also recorded everything multitrack and made a different audio-only mix (having trouble embedding the player so here's the direct link):
https://soundcloud.com/gyokyo/obake-jam (https://soundcloud.com/gyokyo/obake-jam)
My B-string is pretty dead - I've been meaning to change the strings, looks like that's my project for the weekend (including lemon oil for the fretboard). I am hoping that this duo is a long-term project - we definitely have chemistry - he can just play and play and play! And one of my favorite things to do is play with a great soloist. This is only the third time we ever played together and the first with me on bass!
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Very cool!
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Sounds great! The Koto looks like Mickey Hart's Beam's little brother. Very unique sounding instrument.
Bill, tgo
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Very cool, sounds great!
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Thanks everyone for listening! This project emerged out of the ether - I'm looking forward to continuing it.
Wow Bill, nice insight about koto & the Beam! Brian actually plays bass koto - I haven't heard that but interested in checking it out. And speaking of the Beam, it reminded me of one of my favorite Dead & Co moments - that night's Drums/Space drove out the annoying family in front of us - mom was maybe a John Mayer fan?
And we are definitely employing drone in this duo - I was going to say drones, but remembered Mickey Hart's shirt:
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53307066082_41be7abd5c.jpg)
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The SoundCloud recording is very nice. The chemistry is evident, hope you do more with Brian.
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The SoundCloud recording is very nice. The chemistry is evident, hope you do more with Brian.
Thank you! I can hardly wait to play with him again! And actually, I have another track where he plays Shakuhachi which I will post when it's ready.