Hi fellows!I 'm happy to insert a new post about music.
Yesterday, BB King pub in Biancavilla ( :P !!) hosted the Blasco Small Combo band.
The picture shows them in the pub and in the link you can find information about band and you can download two excerpts as well.
The band is composed of 2 element: Blasco, the voice and contrabass player, and Sergio, the guitarist and second voice. I really think that they seem to be an orchestra!
I found the appointment navigating the net, then invited some friends and I can say that they were a real surprise: the evening was really pleasant!
The atmosphere the band created in the pub was beautiful, most similar to a scene from "Happy days" American movie. It seemed to live an episode :).
They dress mirroring 50s and 60s' style. Both wore little ties and Blasco wore beige "clark" as shoes. I think that shoes are the only pair existing in the world :P, you cannot find that model anymore in any shop! I think he uses it only for concert ;).
Blasco, the voice, is able to create the 60s' atmosphere. His voice is also very similar to the one used in the famous American series by the band at Arnold's. He sings perfectly following lyric and in a way that seems to express pleasure, naturalness. Blasco is considered the greatest european rockabilly (see also here) contrabass player.
Looking at Blasco's hands while playing is almost amazing. Most of all the right hand, the one that plunks the strings. If you listen to "Heartbeat" or "Oh Boy!" in the link, you can listen to the speed the music goes and the battery you hear is not part of the band as you can see from the picture, but it the effect Blasco creates plucking strings! He is amazing! He seems to play two instruments simultaneously and perfectly synchronized.
At the end of the concert, the last excerpt involved also a sax player in pub. He started playing with the band and I enjoyed to be involved in the players' pleasure to create music and spread emotions.
Nice evening! Hopefully I 'll post something about music like this soon.
3 comments:
I met them again...in Catania.
I like them ... so much.
I noticed Blasco' s ability to mix rhythms: singing rhythms, playing rhythms .. he is wonderfully great!
i agree, nice band, nice sound. The rhythm is the "key" of Blasco Small Combo.
I noticed the ability of the guy at the double-bass too.
I enjoyed the evening :)
HO trovato questa bella recinsione :
"L'ex Boppin' Kids Blasco Mirabella al contrabbasso e voce, accompagnato da Sergio Romeo alla chitarra e alla voce, hanno messo insieme le loro, a prima vista, lontane esperienze per creare un progetto musicale innovativo, seppur basato su stili musicali caratteristici della seconda metà del Novecento. Il risultato è uno show che riesce a travolgere ogni tipologia di spettatore, catapultandolo nella magica atmosfera degli anni '60 insieme a un sound contemporaneo. Ispirazione iniziale della band Buddy Holly, il giovane musicista country e western che diventò un'icona del rock degli esordi, in seguito anche alla prematura scomparsa il 3 febbraio 1959, a soli 23 anni, a causa di un incidente aereo. Uno spettacolo quello del Blasco Small Combo, basato su un severo incastro ritmico tra un contrabbasso suonato con la tecnica dello "slap" ed una chitarra dal suono "antico". Tu
tto ciò fa da splendido supporto alla voce che diventa protagonista di questo meraviglio sogno a cavallo fra gli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta."
Diciamo che esprime molto quello che il post vorrebbe dire :)
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