Fernwood: Acoustic Americana world chamber music
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
From: John Diliberto
Length: 00:03:30
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Piece Description
Fernwood is a group that's hard to pin down. They mix Americana elements with Appalachian strings along with bouzoukis from the Middle East and Ireland and sitars from India. Headed up by Todd Montgomery and Gayle Ellett who also plays guitar in the ultra-progressive rock band, Djam Karet, Fernwood creates a global chamber music with Americana accents and cinematically inclined melodies.
Transcript
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IN AN ERA OF COMPUTER GENERATED MUSIC WHERE EVEN THE ROOTSIEST POP SONG IS ELECTRONICALLY MANIPULATED, A BAND CALLED FERNWOOD WANTS TO DO THE MUSIC VERSION OF GETTING BACK TO NATURE.
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Gayle Ellett: It's a reaction to modern music and where modern music is going and it's so computer driven and played by machines and it's a deliberate statement saying that's bad. It's wrong. We should avoid that.
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THAT'S GAYLE ELLETT. YOU MIGHT SURMISE FROM THAT STATEMENT THAT GAYLE IS AN ANTI-TECHNOLOGY LUDDITE, BUT CONSIDER THAT FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS, HE'S BEEN PLAYING ELECTRIC GUITAR IN THE ULTRA-PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP, DJAM KARET.
MUSIK
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DJAM KARET REVELS IN COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS AND DYNAMIC MUSICIANSHIP, BUT WITH FERNWOOD, GAYLE ELLETT WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING SIMPLER. ALONG WITH HIS PARTNER, TODD MONTGOMERY, THEY'VE ARRIVED AT AN AMERICANA WORLD CHAMBER MUSIC BASED MOS...
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