Music
Some people keep blogs, I put all my music on the net...
This is just a collection of some of the stuff I've recorded over the years. It varys in quality and style.
There's some stuff missing; I don't know whatever happened to these recordings:
- Carlos Rojas - This cuban guy I did a demo for in Puerto Rico. He spent like 5,000 bucks on one tune - wish I had the recording!
- La Tuna - The folkloric group of Universidad de Puerto Rico, Arecibo did a recording with like every convcievable string instrument in the Western Hemisphere. Don't know if got mastered yet.
- Klezmenauts - Fussion Klezmer music. Fun home recording. Where are you Hilary?
- Fiddlicious - The name says it all. We did a studio recording. Where is it?
Mango
July 2001, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Role: Everything
The three best things about teaching?: June, July & August. I discovered digital recording, and spent the entire monthe
of July in my basement recording. Instruments: Violin, Bass, Acoustic Guitars, Bongos, Duduk, Percussion Loops, MIDI Programming.
Check out the Web Site. Great Photos!
Incada
2002, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Role: Bass, Gringo
Emanuel Gutiérrez is a talented guy: he wrote all these tunes, recorded them in his studio, and ran the band. The tracks are mostly pop/rock en Espanol.
Check out the Web Site. Great Photos!
Hot Mofongo
Puerto Rico's one and only Gringo String Jazz Band. They'd never seen anything like us before
(and probably won't ever again). The demo tracks were done at my place on my old 4-track. 'Au Prauve'
was recorded at one of our rare gigs.
Note: 'Mofongo' is a Puerto Rican dish consisting of fried mashed Plantations. I think we really confused
a lot of Puerto Ricans with this name...
Fiddlicious
1998, Eugene OR
Role: Bass, Violin
No music yet, but what a great shot!:
Jazzcadia
1998, Eugene, OR
Role: Bass
This was a fun Jazz Trio. Chris, the guitar player, also plays on The Owls tracks.
The Owls
1998, Eugene OR
Role: Bass, Violin, Piano
A fun pop/rock band (Echo & the Bunnymen?). This was primarly a studio project, altough we did play one gig before we left for Puerto Rico. Good players!
Kalamity Jam
1994-1997, Eugene, OR
Role: Bass
See the video! Search for Paul Marganian on YouTube.
Another rock/funk group. This was a special band for me. When we got togethor, well, to be honest, we weren't so hot. But we worked
hard, and after a year or two, we started to sound pretty good, and had a few 'glory' gigs. These tracks are from a live CD we did at the WOW
Hall, Eugene, Oregon.
Analog Archives
1994 - 1997, Eugene, OR
Role: Everything
Back in the late 80's I got myself a Tascam 4-Track recorder. Here's stuff that I've done with it and recently digitized.
Thanks a lot to Dana Vion (of Kalamity Jam), who let me use her guitars and keyboards for some of these recordings.
These are pretty varied, from new age cheese, to wierd fussion.
Instruments: Guitars, Bass, Violin, Keyboards (including Drums), Mandolin, Sitar, Flute, Percussion, Hindi
Baba Yaga
1992 - Amherst, MA
Role: Bass
UMASS's own ska band! Funny, none of us listened to Ska. The chorus of this tune is 'Blue Moon' in Russian.
Andy does some great stuff in his own studio.
Follow the 'Honey from the Hive' link.