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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Ikrik on 09 Apr 2008, 21:44
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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.
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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.
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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.
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www.candyrat.com
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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>
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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.
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Not experimental, but ...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v69/Jimbunny/d53489ph6c8.jpg)
... everything else you're looking for.
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SIR RICHARD BISHOP
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Seconded.
Also, Jack Rose and John Fahey.
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Owen Pallett
Paco de Lucia
that is all.
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Owen Pallett
a.k.a. final fantasy
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Durruti Column is hella good too.
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Masada Guitars (http://www.discogs.com/release/563508) is all solo guitar scorings of works from John Zorn’s Masada group, and it’s pretty nifty.
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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.
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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
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I like me some Kaki King from time to time.
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www.candyrat.com
Fuck yes.
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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).
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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.
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Hamza el Din - A lot of solo songs on the Tar and the Oud, mesmerizing at times
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9tGPTYqfCs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9tGPTYqfCs) not a rick roll
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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.
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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.
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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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fPv450OYM)
Steve Vai (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZuNM3HmU4)
Jason Becker (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2JuJ5I94zY)
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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjimMO2SdE)
you will like that one, i promise! :-)
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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.
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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:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/10_string_Chapman_Stick.jpg)
There's the bastard.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4624603034854120278
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Andy McKee is incredible, not just instrumentally but he writes some seriously soothing melodies..
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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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjimMO2SdE)
and a guy on an acoustic model, really awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM5S-1zOK0U&watch_response
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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:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/10_string_Chapman_Stick.jpg)
There's the bastard.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4624603034854120278
never seen such an instrument
did he make it?
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Chapman Stick (http://www.stick.com/) is a company that makes 'em, Warr Guitars (http://www.warrguitars.com/) are similar. Tony Levin and Trey Gunn of King Crimson can do crazy stuff with those things.
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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.
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Warr Guitars, Inc.
Welcome to the first step in your journey to acquire the Ultimate Tone!
THAT INSTRUMENT HAS SHITTY TONE.
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If it's the ULTIMATE shitty tone, they've still kept their promise, tho.