Bizarre Heroes
Ever since we collaborated with Patrick on “…Strikes 13″ a few years back I’ve been wanting to write a song in 13/8. For last year’s FoundatiOn Team Ep I tried a couple and came up with the basic groove and baseline for this song then Maz and I went into the studio and recorded all of this guitar feedback and the beginnings of Bizarre Heroes was born.
Russel and Kaoru really tore it up Saturday night! Listening to them together is like holding two seemingly incompatible truths in your mind simultaneously… it’s a complete mind #$%#^ but somehow it all makes perfect sense. Enjoy the track:
Bizarre Heroes – Russel Baba: Alto Sax, Kaoru Watanabe: Fue, Kelvin Underwood: Drums, Masato Baba: Bass, Kristofer Bergstrom: taiko, Shoji Kameda: laptop
Tags: Bizarre Heroes, works in progress
Great Stuff, Shoji! wish i could have enjoyed the performance live….(and witness Maz on the funky bass!)
Hey Patrick – I knew you like this track, you were part of the inspiration for the piece. Maybe we’ll play it at Cerritos?
Oh, for Sure- you got it!! love the tune.
i am knitting myself a 13-sided hat for just such an occasion!
; )
shoji! i just listened to “bizarre heroes,” and i really liked it! i didn’t read this blog post before, but i was like, “is that in THIRTEEN?!?!” amazing! great job!
thanks dardi! glad you like the track. 13 is the new 5…
yeah… let’s totally play it at cerritos! i wanna play more bass now too, so if you all want to think of more ideas for it, i’m totally down and excited for it.
maz i have an idea… i was listening to Earth Prayer today and i think we should re-arrange “Viewpoints” for taiko, drums and bass. i can also hear turntable, throat singing or koto depending on which way we want to take it.
cool man! let’s talk.