a swedish "avant garde" album made in germany, listen and criticize!

[gustav]

Hello you cool cats!

I play in a band, a trio, that makes pretty original music.
its a mixture of jazz, blues, progressive rock and just some psykedelia.
the lineup is a saxophone (mostly thrue a guitar-multi-effect), bass and drums.

for a month ago we made a record in an old warbunker in cologne, germany. the cd has 10 tracks and during a week, we wrote 5 of the songs on a little travel guitar. the last five is written during the recording.

on our myspace, you can hear three of the songs (the three first in the row)

i would love to hear from you basscolleges how you like it!
www.myspace.com/solrosgatan

our name is solrosgatan, which means the sunflower street in swedish

cheers and swedish sunflower-greetings from germany (i totally lost my english living here, sorry for that)

/Gustav and
myspace.com/solrosgatan

[joroched]

Ck'd out all 5 songs, and the vid.

Very coool stuf!

Looks like fun, sounds great, keep it up.

Support the cause!

[gustav]

hey, thanks! it is a whole lot of fun.
it is just a bit hard to gig while everone of us plays like three instruments in every song. do you have a good idea how we can work around that?

[Matt Till]

Originally Posted by gustav

hey, thanks! it is a whole lot of fun.
it is just a bit hard to gig while everone of us plays like three instruments in every song. do you have a good idea how we can work around that?

Hire more people. You could take the cheap approach and program the other parts into a sampler and you could all trigger things with your feet, but I think it would be cooler if you could find more people. Easier said than done, I know.

I love the tracks, some of it kind of reminds me of the band Xhol Caravan (familiar?), very cool stuff. It could be stripped down to a trio with some sampling added upon further listen, but it really is the layering that makes these songs great.

Keep up the good work.

[gustav]

no, xhol caravan doesnt ring any bells. but i will check them out.
yeah, we will see what we can do for the gigs. maybe we can manage to jam a bit more, the three of us... haha


thanks for the kind words

[Matt Till]

Here's a Xhol Caravan vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyfoffACamw

Now, there is a drawn out intro (that I personally find amazing), but the "song" starts at 3:30. And I'm not sure why your band reminds me of them, it's a very broad comparison, but your band kind of gives me that vibe... in a good way.

It's something to do with the saxophone harmonies I think. Once again, very cool stuff. Excellent bass playing as well.

[gustav]

hey! thanks for that tip. i really like xhol caravan now!
and apparantley, theye are big in the krautrock, which had the center in cologne, were we made the album. i didnt hava an idea. our cd is ten times cooler now!

thanks matt till!