Guitarkadia

I guess I never had the one year anniversary talk on here. It was, by the way, on October 10, 2008 that I relaunched the blog with a new theme, mission, idea and what have you.

Lot has happened since then. Detour here, going astray there, it hasn’t been easy maintaining this blog, and two others, with a full-time job in tow. But, I somehow managed to stay afloat. Met a lot of people because of the blog, got to be at places because of the blog, and ventured into areas I didn’t expect to because of the blog.

In short, the relaunch was worth it. Between May and September – I guess, all of Summer – things have not been so smooth in other aspects of my life. Things changed in August in a major/minor way and it was time to re-evaluate quite a few things I attached myself to. Lots of reflectin’, lots of thinking, and lots of re-tooling.

Anyway, all this yapping is to say that I’ve been sitting on a lot of material I’d recorded, photographed, gathered over the Summer and it’s about time I got those babies out to the world. Some stuff I’d recorded back in May only recently saw light of the day [Stephane Wrembel] [Bern & the Brights] [The Relyx].

Lotsa new stuff coming. Yes, some have been recorded or written months ago but the beauty of this approach to my blog is, they are not time sensitive. The stories and lessons bassist Melvin Gibbs shared with me, sitting on his Brooklyn apartment rooftop, will never get old. Same goes for the 2 40-minute interview (we’ll do a part 3 soon) I had with Vernon Reid last year, over Skype. The evening I spent with Eric Strom as he worked his way through creating a jingle for Guitarkadia will always be true to that moment as it unfolded in front of my camera. The lessons Craig Greenberg learned from being abroad about his own music will inspire many who struggle to find their voices. The guitar lesson or two shared by Rick Stone, or Carlos Barbosa-Lima, will always help a guitar player no matter who or where they are. Then there are two wonderful guest posts from Bill Leverty and the incredibly young and talented Yeman Al-Rawi.

I have a few things to say about this whole guitar thing too. Nothing earth shattering or revealing. But they’ll have to wait till my friends above have made their appearances.

November!

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Me Talk Pretty

emon — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:07:26 +0000

August 31, 2009. Urban Noise Summer Festival 2009.

Band: Julia Preotu (vocals) Leon Lyazidi (guitars) James Kluz (drums) Nate Meng (bass)

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Man On Earth

emon — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:12:32 +0000

August 31, 2009. Urban Noise Summer Festival at Blender Theater, NYC.

Band: Nathan (singer) Polaris (guitar) Dave (drums) Alex (bass)

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All We Are. Directed by: Nathan.

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Musical Instruments in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest

emon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:04:39 +0000

Archaeologist Dr. Emily Brown realized studying musical instruments can lead to revealing facts about the music of that era. Which led her to researching and writing this piece for Park Science.

“In the course of my research in nine museums, I studied more than 1,250 musical objects from the Four Corners area of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah, primarily from sites within 17 national parks, including Chaco Culture National Historical Park, Aztec Ruins National Monument, Bandelier National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, Canyon de Chelly National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, and Wupatki National Monument.”

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Dive

emon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:04:09 +0000

August 31, 2009. Urban Noise: Summer Festival 2009.

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Dive @ TLA

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Stopping to ‘Look’ at Sound

emon — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:02:35 +0000

If you’re in the business of creating or making sounds, you draw from a pallet you grew up accumulating. More often than not you (we) source our inspirations from the sounds that have influenced us, and almost never the ones that intrude upon us. Either of them finds its way into our sounds (music).

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HYPERNOVA

emon — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:56:16 +0000

August 31, 2009. Urban Noise Summer Festival. Gramercy Theater.

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Full Gallery of Hypernova live at Gramercy Theater

Sinners: dir: Richard Patterson

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The Vanguard

emon — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:05:17 +0000

Urban Noise: Summer Festival. August 31, 2009.

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Full photo set on Flickr

Music video (dir: Patryk Rebisz)

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