The Picture Tube Jazz Band
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order sheet
"Picture Tube" CD - on Music Focus Records:
CD tunes & times:
Amerigo Round Vespucci 4:52
Dionaea 4:18
Maithuna 6:40
Ten Million Aprils 4:33
Gumby Meets a Girl 5:32
Wave Of The Hand 4:37
Zion Retreat 5:18
Picture Tube 4:27
Make A Wish 5:56
Cantina Song (John Williams, from Star Wars) 1:48 PT
More information about the album
Picture Tube was recorded at Music Focus on a Fostex E-16M running 30 ips
using Ampex 499 1/2" reels. The mix was automated using a Tascam M3700
mixing console. CMS Digital did the CD mastering to a Sony 1630. Rainbo
Records pressed the CDs.
Some tracks were edited using a Macintosh 840AV runnig Deck II software.
Neve and API microphone preamps and equalizers were supplied by Design FX
Brian Sisson did all the art and graphics on the CD.
the musicians
Karl Frederick Grossman began forming the songs for this album in early
1990. With Rich Schwagerl on vibraphone, Mike McLinden on bass as well as
Gary Ferguson on drums, the band began playing and rehearsing the music
to be recorded. For a year we rehearsed and refined new tunes and old ones.
We came up with a viable set of music that eventually became the Picture
Tube album.
We basically performed the album at the Strand nightclub in the summer of
1994.
The band was then ready to start laying the tracks that would become the
album. We started with about 15 tunes and narrowed it down to the current
10 tunes.
Richard and I became very much entwined in the melodic process of the tunes
and we would have to 'woodshed' by oursleves many times to get the phrasing
and nuance just right.
The recording was very time consuming and detailed but we tried to put as
much raw spirit as possible on the recorder. As an result of the that concept
very little doubling or thickening was employed. We preferred the raw sound
of the instruments. It was the players I believe who are totally responsible
for the interaction and resultant 'magic'.
A musical score of the whole CD exists. E-mail me to find out more...
karlg@earthlink.net