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It’s Only Right and Natural
Following up on the last post about Han Bennik and Peter Brötzmann: I mentioned that most animal sounds that appear on records are samples. We used multiple tracks from this disk on the Folk Implosion song Serge – they all have different characteristics. Both the tracks, and the frogs, I mean. They remind me of…
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A Real Misty Mountain Hop
I’ve been listening to this sehr schöen album called “Schwarzwaldfahrt” repeatedly this week. It was recorded by two improvisational musicians, Han Bennik (from the Netherlands) and Peter Brötzmann, (from Germany,) in 1977 (I think.) They loaded up a car full of instruments and recording gear and traveled to record in the middle of the black…
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Discography
I found this discography on the web after googling my first tape Stars and Songs. Why was I looking up my first tape, you might ask? Because I don’t have a copy of it myself and I was trying to remember all the songs that were on it for a project I’m working on called…
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Under construction
I am in the process of setting up a website and blog while recording 2 albums and writing a book. This site will document past work I’ve done on my own and with The Folk Implosion. I will be posting free music to download from time to time as well news about new releases as…