Tuesday, April 30, 2013

SIX ACCORDIONISTS GO RIDING ON A CAROUSEL...

...No, that's not a joke set-up. It really happened on the Santa Monica Pier in 2010. Daniel Corral and his group the Free Reed Conspiracy actually sat on carousel horses that went up 'n' down, up 'n' down, playing a near-30 minute powerful drone piece - like Glenn Branca for squeezeboxes. "...the audience listened as the music spun past them." Watch it here (can't see the musicians much, unfortunately):

NEOTROPE

or download the mp3 from Corral's website if you scroll down a bit

HERE

tho it's not as densely loud. The acoustics of the 80-year-old carousel building no doubt caused much reverberation, which I prefer to the pristine studio version.

There was apparently an entire evening of music and performance on the carousel and, as I live in Los Angeles, am bummed that I wasn't there. Encore, encore!


2 comments:

Justin Patrick Moore said...

If only they had Calliope accompaniment!

This is great, thanks.

http://www.peakofnormal.org

Anonymous said...

Yes, I agree - the live version's heavy stuff. I turned off the studio version half-way thru

(tho maybe I'll try it later, now that I know it's not gonna blast me out of my socks like the carousel version...)

- Hairy Irene