so, hey ho, how ya doin'? kevin here, back with some amigos in tow, to try and get this blog back on it's feet and that's no mean feat with me! hehehe!
yeah, so i fell off the blog wagon for a few months and in the interim i've been working on getting things more together. as you may have guessed, if you followed me and my "career" in the least, i take a long time to finish things. some of that is the way i am/work, some of it is circumstances thrust upon me, blah, blah, blah. anyway, i waited until i got my new "groop" together before i would re-start my blog. and luckily pour moi, the fellas ( and one groovy chick ) are as smart and funny as bloggers as they are damn fine and tasteful musicians! so that means many more blog posts and that's good, right?
you've already heard from ty and eric so let me fill in, just a little bit, their bio's for ya. ty is a classically trained percussionist who has already, in the short time we've been playing together, become invaluable to me and all the projects we're working on. equally comfortable behind a kit pounding out a super-funky jazz beat or laying down an amazing vibes riff or even wigging out on the wurly with a hot electric piano solo, the dude is vers-a-tile with a capital "WOW!" he has even done some nice string arrangements for me when i feel like i'm writing the same part over and over again! plus, he brings a solid grounding in the avant-garde, which is something i love! to me, mixing the avant-garde with the "pop" is nirvana and i don't mean the band, squares! did i mention he's also learning the theremin?? somebody pinch me, i must be dreaming...
eric, on the other hand is a hack! no, of course not! i keed! the guy is an amazing player who's playing exudes T-A-S-T-E. never intrusive, he always plays the right thing and seemingly has no ego. yeah, i know, a guitar player with no ego! yes, he is an android we created in the studio.
anyway, eric comes from a jazz background and has a great sense of humor and fits this collective like a glove really pretentious guitar players wear to shred. or something like that. he and i have, as he mentioned in his post, been doing some experimenting and mods to guitar amps and effects to come up with the "tone" that the norse god loki stole from humanity in the mists of creation! and we will find it and bring forth guitar ragnarok ( google it )!!
their are other members of the collective that we will talk about in the future esp. vocalist vocalist extraordinaire, kat and resident hipster, ryan s. but more on that soon...
so, as ty mentioned the first release for the Torrey Canyon Collective will be a rmx for the song 'follow me' by axe riverboy, who happens to be xavier boyer, lead singer of the fab french groop, tahiti 80! the tahiti boys and i "met" in myspace and it turns out they were fans of the WHS back in the day. so, from that thw rmx came. xavier has assured me that he will return the favor on some upcoming Torrey Canyon Collective release, so stay tuned and all that jazz...
oh, yeah, so far that rmx will only be coming out on a special rmx album ( feat. fugu, eric matthews, ben's symphonic orchestra, etc. ) that, as of now, will be released in japan in the next month or so. obviously, we'll let ya know as soon as we know were you can purchase that if you are so inclined...
I should tell you all that while the blanket name of this collective is, in fact, The Torrey Canyon Collective, we will appear on different releases under different names and monikers. par example, the axe rvierboy rmx is credited to "Kevin Coral and The Torrey Canyon All-Stars" cuz it's a very "jazz" rmx and, hence, called for a very "jazz" moniker. the orange cake mix album, which we've almost finished ( finally! ) will come out as 'Orange Cake Mix feat. The Torrey Canyon MelloTronic Orquestra & Chorus.' got it? good...
so, there's a lot more to tell ya, including a rmx of a new bertrand burgalat track featuring vocals by robert wyatt ( !!!! ) but that will have to wait 'til next time. we'll also be putting up a blog log of other blogs we like, etc.
oh, some days we'll talk about studio gear and stuff and sometimes about music and sometimes about books and well, you get the picture, right?
ciao,
kevin
currently listening to: the free design - "heaven/earth"
p.s. - the website will be fixed and updated post-haste as well, i promise!
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"The Fleet Air Arm bombed the Torrey Canyon in an effort to sink it, burn off the slick and reduce the oil spilling from it. Although the operation was declared a success, the Navy came in for some criticism as around a quarter of the 42 bombs dropped on the stationary target failed to hit it. The bombing was followed by Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm aircraft dropping petrol and napalm to try to burn the oil."
- The Pymatuning Review, Vol 1, #9
pgs. 1988-2007.
no one can ever bomb THE Torrey Canyon Collective!! never!!
btw, i know it was the name of ship but more importantly, serge gainsbourg named a song 'torrey canyon.' how cool is that?
Mais oui... tres cool.
Un definition -
"Gainsbourg" : Doué d’un humour grinçant et subtil, il a su imposer au public un personnage de désinvolte désenchanté et sardonique qui cache une très vive sensibilité.
Dictionnaire encyclopédique Larousse, tome 5 (et Le Revue de Hiram, 1986).
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