Back online after some interesting work/ Fermin Muguruza

A couple of months went by very fast in preparation for the Fermin Muguruza recording in New Orleans which I was asked to produce.  Fermin is a great and fascinating Basque singer, documentarian, writer with about a 30 year story in music under his belt.  I think we may have gotten to the first New Orleans/Basque recording ever. And what an interesting development that is!

In passing we learned a lot about Basque things.  Including Zatarain's...

It's worth clicking on the link above  and finding out more about Fermin.  His work has a lot of social import and he put together a fascinating album here, with a great lineup of heavy musicians from all across the New Orleans music world.  Look for that in December.

At any rate, all of this producing and arranging slowed down things like posting more interviews and even posting concert schedules on the website.  back to that, and with more Naked Orchestra things to come and the Joyce Opera ( "what's that? never heard of it. are we starting rumors?")

Two shows this week-trio at Yuki tonight; Maple Leaf with Mike Dillon Friday

Have two interesting hits this week:

Tonight with a Trio at Yuki on Frenchmen St at 8pm.

Joe Cabral-bass/vocals
Jonathan Freilich- guitar
Doug Garrison- drums

Expect a Jackal-ish guest and then expect the unexpected...

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Friday will be at the Maple Leaf Bar on Oak St in Uptown New Orleans.  Show starts @10pm.

Mike Dillon is a fascinating multi instrumentalism who has some unbelievably exciting approaches to things like vibraphones and Marimbas.  There's a punk thing, a surf thing, a Jazz thang, a Metal thing, a Funk thang, a surf thing.  Lot's of things and thangs.  A good deal of tings, dings, damns and dangs.

First part of interview with Geoffrey Douville, guitarist with Egg Yolk Jubilee is up!

The interviews are back after a long layoff.  Find out about a great local musical artist and one of the whackier bands from the 90s.  Also, films, politics and bar-owning.

Geoff Douville is an interesting and alive mind.  I went to talk with him using the Egg Yolk Jubilee as a jumping off point.  Egg Yolk showed up on my radar in the early 90's and they had a mad frantic style and were composed of some very expressive locals and, of course, featured Jeff playing electric guitar in a style not so commonly heard in the directions that they seemed to be headed.  Then I found out about his fascinating film work with Paul Grass.  He's also an owner of the Lost Love Lounge in the Marigny neighborhood in New Orleans.

Jeff is very good at elucidating opinions and he is one of the few folks amidst the list of interviewees that is really from New Orleans, not transplanted. There is an interesting long view about the city, and its art and music world that seems to emerge from that perspective.

Part 1 of the interview is here...