Topic: Solo Instrumental Music (Read 7856 times)

Ikrik · « **on:** 09 Apr 2008, 21:44 »

I kind of want something new...different. I was wondering if anyone knows any musicians who record with just a single instrument. Be it a trumpet, guitar, bass, drums, saxaphone....whatever. I don't have any examples, but I think the idea is pretty cool and I'd like to see if there any musicians who record with just their instrument.

Beastmouth · « **Reply #1 on:** 09 Apr 2008, 23:02 »

Keith Jarrett comes to mind, but a lot of his solo work is some boring. Then there's Wendy Carlos' electric Bach. Trane did some great stuff with just his horn and a drummer, though that is twice as many people as y're lookin for.

casull · « **Reply #2 on:** 09 Apr 2008, 23:20 »

There are a number of people doing very interesting things with electric violins and loop pedals right now.

If you mean solo instruments, no looping... search for candyrat on youtube. That label has a stable of really neat steel-string fingerpicking players.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 01:06 »

www.candyrat.com

Patrick · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 03:19 »

Click my link in my signature. Some of it is shit ("Rapid Eye Movement", and the Trent Reznor remix isn't exactly instrumental) but some of it is okay. All the guitar stuff is instrumental.</shameless self-plug>

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #5 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 12:37 »

Matthew Cooper AKA Eluvium on his first four releases used just a guitar or a piano depending on the album. His guitar stuff is heavily manipulated/distorted so I'm not sure if that's what you want but it's incredibly beautiful and seriously impressive considering the depth of sound he gets out of the guitar.

jimbunny · « **Reply #6 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 13:25 »

Not experimental, but ...

... everything else you're looking for.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #7 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 13:43 »

SIR RICHARD BISHOP

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 16:54 »

Seconded.

Also, Jack Rose and John Fahey.

IronOxide · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 19:04 »

Owen Pallett

Paco de Lucia

that is all.

canadien_ride · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Apr 2008, 22:27 »

Quote from: IronOxide on 10 Apr 2008, 19:04

Owen Pallett

a.k.a. final fantasy

gardenhead_ · « **Reply #11 on:** 11 Apr 2008, 03:29 »

Durruti Column is hella good too.

rynne · « **Reply #12 on:** 11 Apr 2008, 07:03 »

Masada Guitars is all solo guitar scorings of works from John Zorn’s Masada group, and it’s pretty nifty.

Just One More... · « **Reply #13 on:** 11 Apr 2008, 21:18 »

hate to advertise myself... it makes me feel like such a prick...

myspace.com/fingersticker.

all acoustics, which pretty much explains every white kid in america... but oh well, i figure there's some out there who like it, maybe you'll like it. but if ur gonna learn one, go for the Saz.

Dedalus · « **Reply #14 on:** 17 Apr 2008, 12:06 »

This may be just what you're looking for:

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:220

Solo Instrumental recordings launched successful labels like Windham Hill and Narada, ushering in a whole movement oriented toward impressionistic, often folk-inspired originals for piano, guitar, Celtic harp, and even hammered dulcimer. Though some of these releases offer innovative, emotionally moving performances, enough second-rate opportunists have jumped on the bandwagon to give the genre its "aural wallpaper" reputation. Still, some fine musicians continue to battle this stigma. -- Linda Kohanov

Christophe · « **Reply #15 on:** 17 Apr 2008, 12:19 »

I like me some Kaki King from time to time.

imapiratearg · « **Reply #16 on:** 17 Apr 2008, 12:21 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 10 Apr 2008, 01:06

www.candyrat.com

Fuck yes.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #17 on:** 17 Apr 2008, 14:10 »

I actually just got Andy McKee's album "The Gates of Gnomeria." I'll Med!afire it when my internet's working again (I'm on a library computer right now).

carrotosaurus · « **Reply #18 on:** 17 Apr 2008, 14:22 »

Lots of good suggestions here, no one's mentioned Sandy Bull yet though. Really awesome bloke that plays guitar and oud and a bunch of other solo string instruments.

sc13ntific · « **Reply #19 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 09:45 »

Hamza el Din - A lot of solo songs on the Tar and the Oud, mesmerizing at times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9tGPTYqfCs not a rick roll

imapiratearg · « **Reply #20 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 10:42 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 17 Apr 2008, 14:10

I actually just got Andy McKee's album "The Gates of Gnomeria." I'll Med!afire it when my internet's working again (I'm on a library computer right now).

I have The Art of Motion. It's pretty fucking awesome.

Ikrik · « **Reply #21 on:** 18 Apr 2008, 15:10 »

Wow....
I wasn't expecting this many suggestions. Seriously. I haven't listened to all of it yet, but the stuff I have listened to has been absolutely perfect.

diablo_man · « **Reply #22 on:** 19 Apr 2008, 11:36 »

well, heres some amazing solo instrumental guitar virtuoso stuff. they tend to have a backing band, but its all really about the one instrument
Joe Satriani
Steve Vai
Jason Becker

might not be what you are interested int, but good nonetheless.

and more of a single man on single instrument stuff. check out some of the chapman stick players.
heres one of the best on youtube Rob Martino
you will like that one, i promise!

thousand · « **Reply #23 on:** 22 Apr 2008, 11:17 »

Nobody seems to be going classical....i always like Yo-Yo Ma...it's pretty incredible.

Victor Wooten's Show of Hands is pretty amazing...if you're into solo bass.

voidSkipper · « **Reply #24 on:** 24 Apr 2008, 04:36 »

I'm gonna totally recommend this guy I saw busking,

http://www.myspace.com/andysalvanos

There are a couple of drum loops and keys in his first album. The second is all solo, though, played entirely on a Chapman Stick. Apparently it's a 10 string no-body bass that sits mostly in standard guitar tuning. I didn't really understand him through his accent, but I can see it has one huge ol' bass string in the middle of 9 guitar strings, which is rockin'.

EDIT:

There's the bastard.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4624603034854120278

pinkpiche · « **Reply #25 on:** 24 Apr 2008, 05:58 »

Andy McKee is incredible, not just instrumentally but he writes some seriously soothing melodies..

diablo_man · « **Reply #26 on:** 24 Apr 2008, 09:35 »

yeah, that particular chapman stick is a ten string combination bass and guitar. from the top it goes light bass string to heavy bass string, then heavy guitar string to light guitar string. the separate sets of strings are wired through different pickups, so each one can have its own set up and effects and all. the way its set up its so sensitive you dont need to pluck the strings at all.

and i posted it earlier but here is a really good player of the chapman stick. on a twelve string model.
Rob Martino
and a guy on an acoustic model, really awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5S-1zOK0U&watch_response

Mr. Mojo · « **Reply #27 on:** 08 May 2008, 18:25 »

Quote from: voidSkipper on 24 Apr 2008, 04:36

I'm gonna totally recommend this guy I saw busking,

http://www.myspace.com/andysalvanos

There are a couple of drum loops and keys in his first album. The second is all solo, though, played entirely on a Chapman Stick. Apparently it's a 10 string no-body bass that sits mostly in standard guitar tuning. I didn't really understand him through his accent, but I can see it has one huge ol' bass string in the middle of 9 guitar strings, which is rockin'.

EDIT:

There's the bastard.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4624603034854120278

never seen such an instrument
did he make it?

rynne · « **Reply #28 on:** 08 May 2008, 19:00 »

Chapman Stick is a company that makes 'em, Warr Guitars are similar. Tony Levin and Trey Gunn of King Crimson can do crazy stuff with those things.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #29 on:** 09 May 2008, 09:05 »

Tony Levin played in a small statue park in Princeton and it was fucking awesome! I've never seen anyone else play a chapman stick (probably because they cost a fortune) but it was so cool.

Patrick · « **Reply #30 on:** 09 May 2008, 14:39 »

Quote from: the site

Warr Guitars, Inc.

Welcome to the first step in your journey to acquire the Ultimate Tone!

THAT INSTRUMENT HAS SHITTY TONE.

rynne · « **Reply #31 on:** 09 May 2008, 16:30 »

If it's the ULTIMATE shitty tone, they've still kept their promise, tho.

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Author Topic: Solo Instrumental Music (Read 7856 times)

canadien_ride

Just One More...

Dedalus

thousand

voidSkipper

Mr. Mojo