Greg's Blog
I know it's been a while since my last newsletter but i've been on a range of musical missions since then which included writing and recording some pieces for a movie, touring with Steve Newman and Ashish Joshi and putting some material together for the new Gordon's Suitcase album while working on finishing touches to the new Strings & Skins house-lounge-kitchen remix of 'Passages in Time'- a truly refreshing and energetic collaboration with DJ Chresos and his team. Feb will see the start of the new VIVID AFRIKA album with McCoy Mrubata and myself co-writing the material and working it with our top flight line-up of Wynand vd Walt on drums, Siya Makuzeni on vocals and trombone, Ashish Joshi on tabla and percussion and Mlungisi Gegana on double bass. I have also laid down some...
Hi to all,..
while busy having some winter fun, I was suddenly surprised by an extremely sproingy sprung spring with blossoms bursting out all over the place like popcorn on sticks and audiences following much the same pattern.. By the time you read this we will all be enjoying the more varied and entertaining summer scene, having discarded our winter spacesuits...(longjohns and all!) for more user-friendly party togs. Now I must mention that although our winters here in the S of A are at times quite chilly, we are certainly not a 'hiber'-nation...However, we really come into our own when 'da summa' arrives and life seems to become one big picno-party, both indoors and out. This is also the time for us musicians to show what we've been up to during the cooler months, where most '...
Greetings all!
Sitting here in the middle of our South African winter...makes one appreciate this absolutely stunning part of the world that we call home. It' also the season of more recording activity and less live shows...at least that's how I plan it each year. So it is that I find myself working on various new collaborative albums...projects where I luckily get to work with some cutting edge musicians (the ones with the scars to prove that's where they've been hanging out!)...yeah sometimes it feels just like Hendrix's 'Dolly Dagger...she drinks the blood from a jagged edge!' ..but whichever way one looks at it, the business end of the 'music lathe' or 'plough' is, no doubt, it's cutting edge. Hard on the heels of the 'cutters' come the industry bandwagon planters with their...