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Topic: Mike 'Slo-Mo' Brenner--w/Debashish Bhattacharya--"Tript |
Mike Brenner
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Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 7:51 am |
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Hi folks---a little over a year ago, I traveled to Kolkata, India to study with the great Debashish Bhattacharya. I was inspired by his otherworldly playing and by his amazing instrument, the chaturangui.
While I was there, I booked some time and recorded some of my grooves and compositions with the aid of Subasis Bhattacharjee (Debashish's brother) on tabla.
On a subsequent session, I was honored to have Guruji himself play on some tracks, as well as his daughter Sukanya singing.
Well, i finally finished the disc!! Check it out! Thanks, Mike
New video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvRFpaDdloA&feature=player_embedded
Website: www.triptimusic.com
Listen/buy tracks at: http://mike-slo-mo-brenner.bandcamp.com/album/tripti |
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 10:14 am
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Fantastic Mike.
Congrats!
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Howard Parker
03\' Carter D-10
70\'s Dekley D-10
52\' Fender Custom
Many guitars by Paul Beard
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Mike Neer
From:
NJ
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 10:24 am
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Tripti is joyous, Mike! Instantly uplifting and beautiful, with fantastic musicianship and conceptualizing. Satisfying, indeed.
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Links to streaming music, websites, YouTube: Links |
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Bob Blair
From:
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 10:40 am
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| Just wonderful! |
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Mike Brenner
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 10:52 am
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| wow---thank you folks!! much thanks to Mr Neer for his help in spreading the word at the kickstarter funding stage!! |
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Andy Volk
From:
Boston, MA
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 10:53 am
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| Mike, what a terrific record and life experience. Debashish is an awe-inspiring musician but also a nice down to earth guy. |
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Mike Brenner
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 11:04 am
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thanks Andy---it really was life changing and life affirming at same time. The culture shock is more of the life changing part---seeing different way of life, etc and to be over there alone and trying to put some kind of project together with limited time/money, etc--and have it come out in a satisfying way--well, that is pretty life affirming!!
never thought I'd ever record an Indian-influenced disc (or play in a hip hop band, for that matter), but music and steel gtr can take you down some cool roads! |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 1:39 pm
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Debashish and Duane are still the DUDES, to me. The inflections and not just the speed, but the slowness too. Any steel guitarist who hasn't caught up with "Calcutta Slide Guitar 3" just does not know what that thing in their hand can do.
Lucky devil. (I know, you made your own luck.) How much contact & lessons had you had over here first? Any thoughts of adapting it to electric? Lap steels are often used there, I can't help but think somewhere in a back room in Mumbai, lurks a hungry kid with an old ShoBud... |
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 25 Feb 2013 8:42 pm
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I really love how progressive this forum has become while maintaining tradition and roots......from this country and every other country.....
And I love where you've taken steel Mike.... |
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Mike Brenner
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 5:45 am
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David---I first studied with Debashish almost 10 years ago in NYC for a week. I knew nothing about Indian music, but had just acquired a Mohan Veena. I did maybe 1-2 more state-side seminars of different lengths over the next several years, but I always wanted to go to Kolkata. A couple years ago, I finally got a chaturagui and got serious about figuring out a way to get to India.
Studying Hindustani has def affected my electric playing. I think it has moved me away from a more aggressive dobro-centric attack to thinking more about more expressive sliding and slurs/glisses/ornamentation. Of course, playing a lap steel in 'raga mode' with tons of verb, delay and overdrive/feedback is pretty fun too! |
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Isaac Stanford
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 11:26 am
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| Listening to it right now. Sounds great! |
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Isaac Stanford
From:
Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 11:27 am
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| Listening to it right now. Sounds great! |
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John Anderson
From:
San Anselmo, California, USA
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 8:01 pm
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| That is just an amazing video - very cool. |
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David Mason
From:
Cambridge, MD, USA
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HowardR
From:
N.Y.C.-Fire Island-Asheville
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Posted 26 Feb 2013 10:39 pm
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| A Shankarhorn!........ |
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Mike Brenner
From:
Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 27 Feb 2013 7:34 am
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| those guitars are fabulous! sigh..... |
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