Flavvy Flav by Laurant de Wilde - (Contemporary jazz musican)
General Thoughts
Instruments used-Keyboard (Fender Rhodes electric piano sound), double-bass, saxophone, trumpet with electronic effects.
Trumpet plays distorted, dissonant blasts.
Sax & piano often play a melody in unison.
After the intro. drums play a regular 4/4. Drummer uses rimshots and a lot of fills using cymbols.
Tempo is not too fast. Andante.
Melodies are often disjunct and use infamiliar patterns-don't do what you would expect.
Bass plays rising & falling 'riff'.
Acoustic instruments used but with electronics to alter their sound.
Structure
Begins with electronic sounding drone with rising & falling dissonant sounds on top. Sound almost like harmonics.
The drums enter played in a relaxed style playing an irregular beat until joined by the electric piano.
2 falling step-wise falling chords in the piano followed by a rising & falling bass riff using swing rhythm. Piano enters with another phrase followed by the bass riff. Trumpet has random, dissonant interjections.
Unison sax & piano melody. In 2 short phrases with a pause in between and the bass riff. Is played twice.
Bass solo fill, electronic ambient sounds & drum breaks.
A repeat of 4 until the music fades.
Link to Myspace music site for Laurent de Wilde's amazing new album PC Pieces. Everything is played by the piano & computer in real time!! Watch the video clips to get an idea of how the music is created.
Flavvy Flav by Laurant de Wilde - (Contemporary jazz musican)
General Thoughts- Instruments used-Keyboard (Fender Rhodes electric piano sound), double-bass, saxophone, trumpet with electronic effects.
- Trumpet plays distorted, dissonant blasts.
- Sax & piano often play a melody in unison.
- After the intro. drums play a regular 4/4. Drummer uses rimshots and a lot of fills using cymbols.
- Tempo is not too fast. Andante.
- Melodies are often disjunct and use infamiliar patterns-don't do what you would expect.
- Bass plays rising & falling 'riff'.
- Acoustic instruments used but with electronics to alter their sound.
StructureLink to Myspace music site for Laurent de Wilde's amazing new album PC Pieces. Everything is played by the piano & computer in real time!! Watch the video clips to get an idea of how the music is created.