FAREWELL TO NORMAL SCENE
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 4:03 am
This is a TUBA event with TUBA bands.
The tuba is a big instrument with which I feel that players should make big gestures.
The Normal Scene. It’s over. Forget it. Get over it. It’s done.
FAREWELL TO NORMAL SCENE
is June 18th's collaboration of the 3 bands:
NEW BEARD,
YULA AND THE EXTENDED FAMILY,
and the mighty GATO LOCO.
At 8pm, Littlefield, Brooklyn will light up with the fancy sounds and furious excitement of these 3 unique, different, but somehow related ensembles, as well as puppets, aerialists, food and anything else...
THIS IS BIG MUSIC performed by large bands with even larger personalities.
This event is so awesome it has it's own website: http://www.normalscene.com
And it's own video trailer featuring members of all 3 hosting bands http://youtu.be/TMSV-ND-6BA
About the bands:
GATO LOCO was born on the streets of New York City. It’s exotic and foreign, yet it’s urban and familiar. This ten-piece assault force resembles a mambo band thrown into an arena of rock. Formed in 2006 by NYC native Stefan Zeniuk, joined by TubaJoe Exley and Clifton Hyde, this “Dancehall Leviathan” received outrageous acclaim across Europe over the last year. "Just waiting to catch fire onstage" (Sud Ouest, France), "Exotic yet simultaneously urban" (Le Monde, France), "A real barnburner" (Paris DJs), "This band brims with enthusiasm and sounds like the orgasmic lovemaking between James Brown and Tito Puente" (de Volkskrant, The Netherlands).
YULA AND THE EXTENDED FAMILY is an all-embracing, breathing, ever-morphing poetric tribe. Tel Aviv native, and alum of the World Inferno Friendship Society, Star F*cking Hipsters, and Nanushka, multi-instrumental rocker Yula Be’eri whips her motley tribe into a frenzy. Joined by ex-Blue Man Isaac Gardner, this friendly hoarde of kissing cousins and it’s large group of loyal followers run through a diverse garden maze that Yula’s been pruning for years.
NEW BEARD started merely a year ago when the songwriting and producing duo of Benajmin Wigler and Andrew Dunn, formerly of the band Arizona, joined forces with prog dynamo drummer Tony Waldman, tuba gunslinger TubaJoe Exley, and backhanded shredder Yazan. This band just finished it’s epic upcoming LP release, a massively orchestrated production all mixed up by Swedish phenom Gustav Ejstes of the band Dungen. Soaring lead vocals, fresh melodic hooks, layered instrumentation and tuba-powered rock are New Beard’s hallmarks which marry elements as disparate as indie pop, latin jazz, Japanese folk music, and old-school metal.
Kicking off the night will be the female vocal trio, the BANDANA SPLITS, bringing together harmony, lipstick, and the understanding of what it would be like to hang with 3 darlings who sing wherever they go.
Gato Loco
Yula & the eXtended Family
New Beard
The Bandana Splits
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
$8.00 adv / $10 day of show
Tickets: http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/42999/
Extra special thanks to the incomparable artists Dima Drjuchin (http://dimitri-drjuchin.com) for the amazing poster and Stefan Zeniuk for putting together the insane show trailer.
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Necessary TubeNet info: I will be playing a vintage lacquerless Mirafone 186 4U which will be amplified in several ways, but still aspiring to retain the natural tuba sound. I will use a Laskey 28B mouthpiece, and the horn will be held up by a guitar-like strap. I will stand while playing. On said tuba I will be playing rock bass lines, but also big-band-like section parts and solo lead lines, in rock, jazz-ish, and several Latin styles including some Banda, but mostly rock, with the occasional Bruckner-esque brass chorale, and loud-*** Shostakovitch-y unison line with the trombone section, depending on the band and song arrangment. All the music I will be playing is original, composed by my friends, and in some cases adapted and edited by me. I will be using Al Cass valve oil that I bought for $4.99 at Sam Ash Music on 48th Street in NYC. My rotary valve bumpers are made of neoprene, but one on my 3rd valve recently fell out, so I replaced it with a piece of vacuum cleaner belt, which is a little too bouncy. I feel it when I play a 1st ledger-line E alternate on 3, as the 1+2 combo is a bit sharp on this horn and I don't pull the first slide as much as I used to. I'm telling you this because I am a tuba nerd, and so are you.
http://youtu.be/T3z7Buz-IE0 Here is a bonus clip of Gato Loco's "Tuba Gunslinger" which is a tuba-concerto-meets-spaghetti-western-song written for me by my pal Stefan Zeniuk. It was recorded live in Paris a couple of months ago. The tuba sound on this clip is honestly a tad barky for my tastes, but that's because the particular sound was over-gated and compressed by some soundguy for streaming and radio broadcast. Live it was much warmer, and will be again when the video is re-mixed, scheduled for later this year, and will be released on DVD. I have learned that soundmen tend to be the tuba's arch nemesis. Fortunately for this upcoming Farewell to Normal Scene show, we are actually importing our own soundman from Philadelphia who is amazing and knows my tuba sound really well. So, for this show on the 18th, I won't be able to blame the soundman like I usually do because this guy is my friend and is really great. Please come to this show, or go to some show with live tuba in your local area. Live shows with tuba are the antidote for orchestra gigs that are going by the wayside quicker than Bloke replies to TubeNet posts.
Please go support live tuba music of all kinds.
Peace.
The tuba is a big instrument with which I feel that players should make big gestures.
The Normal Scene. It’s over. Forget it. Get over it. It’s done.
FAREWELL TO NORMAL SCENE
is June 18th's collaboration of the 3 bands:
NEW BEARD,
YULA AND THE EXTENDED FAMILY,
and the mighty GATO LOCO.
At 8pm, Littlefield, Brooklyn will light up with the fancy sounds and furious excitement of these 3 unique, different, but somehow related ensembles, as well as puppets, aerialists, food and anything else...
THIS IS BIG MUSIC performed by large bands with even larger personalities.
This event is so awesome it has it's own website: http://www.normalscene.com
And it's own video trailer featuring members of all 3 hosting bands http://youtu.be/TMSV-ND-6BA
About the bands:
GATO LOCO was born on the streets of New York City. It’s exotic and foreign, yet it’s urban and familiar. This ten-piece assault force resembles a mambo band thrown into an arena of rock. Formed in 2006 by NYC native Stefan Zeniuk, joined by TubaJoe Exley and Clifton Hyde, this “Dancehall Leviathan” received outrageous acclaim across Europe over the last year. "Just waiting to catch fire onstage" (Sud Ouest, France), "Exotic yet simultaneously urban" (Le Monde, France), "A real barnburner" (Paris DJs), "This band brims with enthusiasm and sounds like the orgasmic lovemaking between James Brown and Tito Puente" (de Volkskrant, The Netherlands).
YULA AND THE EXTENDED FAMILY is an all-embracing, breathing, ever-morphing poetric tribe. Tel Aviv native, and alum of the World Inferno Friendship Society, Star F*cking Hipsters, and Nanushka, multi-instrumental rocker Yula Be’eri whips her motley tribe into a frenzy. Joined by ex-Blue Man Isaac Gardner, this friendly hoarde of kissing cousins and it’s large group of loyal followers run through a diverse garden maze that Yula’s been pruning for years.
NEW BEARD started merely a year ago when the songwriting and producing duo of Benajmin Wigler and Andrew Dunn, formerly of the band Arizona, joined forces with prog dynamo drummer Tony Waldman, tuba gunslinger TubaJoe Exley, and backhanded shredder Yazan. This band just finished it’s epic upcoming LP release, a massively orchestrated production all mixed up by Swedish phenom Gustav Ejstes of the band Dungen. Soaring lead vocals, fresh melodic hooks, layered instrumentation and tuba-powered rock are New Beard’s hallmarks which marry elements as disparate as indie pop, latin jazz, Japanese folk music, and old-school metal.
Kicking off the night will be the female vocal trio, the BANDANA SPLITS, bringing together harmony, lipstick, and the understanding of what it would be like to hang with 3 darlings who sing wherever they go.
Gato Loco
Yula & the eXtended Family
New Beard
The Bandana Splits
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm
$8.00 adv / $10 day of show
Tickets: http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/event/42999/
Extra special thanks to the incomparable artists Dima Drjuchin (http://dimitri-drjuchin.com) for the amazing poster and Stefan Zeniuk for putting together the insane show trailer.
----------------------
Necessary TubeNet info: I will be playing a vintage lacquerless Mirafone 186 4U which will be amplified in several ways, but still aspiring to retain the natural tuba sound. I will use a Laskey 28B mouthpiece, and the horn will be held up by a guitar-like strap. I will stand while playing. On said tuba I will be playing rock bass lines, but also big-band-like section parts and solo lead lines, in rock, jazz-ish, and several Latin styles including some Banda, but mostly rock, with the occasional Bruckner-esque brass chorale, and loud-*** Shostakovitch-y unison line with the trombone section, depending on the band and song arrangment. All the music I will be playing is original, composed by my friends, and in some cases adapted and edited by me. I will be using Al Cass valve oil that I bought for $4.99 at Sam Ash Music on 48th Street in NYC. My rotary valve bumpers are made of neoprene, but one on my 3rd valve recently fell out, so I replaced it with a piece of vacuum cleaner belt, which is a little too bouncy. I feel it when I play a 1st ledger-line E alternate on 3, as the 1+2 combo is a bit sharp on this horn and I don't pull the first slide as much as I used to. I'm telling you this because I am a tuba nerd, and so are you.
http://youtu.be/T3z7Buz-IE0 Here is a bonus clip of Gato Loco's "Tuba Gunslinger" which is a tuba-concerto-meets-spaghetti-western-song written for me by my pal Stefan Zeniuk. It was recorded live in Paris a couple of months ago. The tuba sound on this clip is honestly a tad barky for my tastes, but that's because the particular sound was over-gated and compressed by some soundguy for streaming and radio broadcast. Live it was much warmer, and will be again when the video is re-mixed, scheduled for later this year, and will be released on DVD. I have learned that soundmen tend to be the tuba's arch nemesis. Fortunately for this upcoming Farewell to Normal Scene show, we are actually importing our own soundman from Philadelphia who is amazing and knows my tuba sound really well. So, for this show on the 18th, I won't be able to blame the soundman like I usually do because this guy is my friend and is really great. Please come to this show, or go to some show with live tuba in your local area. Live shows with tuba are the antidote for orchestra gigs that are going by the wayside quicker than Bloke replies to TubeNet posts.
Please go support live tuba music of all kinds.
Peace.
I could almost believe the tuba is cool,just for a minute 