Eyi jẹ ọkan nikan. Big Foot jẹ ẹya ti o dara julọ ti awọn dancer Melinda Sullivan ati awọn pianist Larry Goldings lati awọn akọkọ ti jazz si awọn ti o tobi, lati awọn akọkọ ibaraẹnisọrọ laarin tap ati jazz gbogbo ọna to awọn akọkọ LA jazz akọkọ ni eyi ti awọn akọkọ awọn akọkọ ti awọn akọkọ ti wa ni vaporized ati improvisation ọpọlọpọ ni ibamu pẹlu live electronics.

<pfseg id="0">Awọn awọn ti o dara julọ ti awọn aworan ni wipe nikan ko si awọn aworan ti o fẹ lori awọn aworan ti wa ni ṣe nipasẹ a buburu kit (Melinda ṣee ṣe a bit ti awọn akọkọ percussion) - o ti wa ni ṣe nipasẹ awọn ẹsẹ ti Melinda Sullivan nigba ti o ba dan, pẹlu Creative micing awọn ọna ti Pete Min. Sugbon Steve Gadd, nigba ti o ba wa si awọn ile-iṣẹ, ṣe awọn aworan rẹ pẹlu awọn ẹsẹ rẹ ati ọkọ ofurufu ṣiṣe. Lati lọwọlọwọ ti awọn akọkọ, sibẹsibẹ, ni a gbajumo ga-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-awọn-

Larry Goldings - “Drummer Steve Gadd jẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹgbẹ ẹ

Melinda Sullivan - “Lẹhin ti o gbigbe awọn lẹsẹsẹsẹ ni ile-iṣẹ pẹlu Dr. Steve Gadd, a ṣe pataki lati ri a iṣiro iṣiro. Steve ati mi ti a ti kọ ni ọkan ọjọ, nitori Larry, ati awọn ti a ṣeto si wa nipasẹ nipa gbigbe pẹlu wọn. O ti wa ni iyanu. Ti o ba ti o fẹ lori Do You Like, bi daradara bi awọn miiran meji ti awọn album Twins ati Dyad, ti wa ni single-takes. Nibẹ ni o ti wa ni kekere kan nipa fẹ, nikan a ti wa ni gbọdọ ati ki o wa ni ifọwọkan. Steve ti ri awọn buburu ninu mi ati ki o mo ri awọn bọtini ninu wọn. 10/10 fun mi ọjọ ti o.”

ABOUT THE LP

Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Larry Goldings and tap dancer extraordinaire Melinda Sullivan are proud to release Big Foot, an innovative, one of a kind album on Colorfield Records.

When Goldings and Sullivan met shortly before the COVID pandemic, they had no way of knowing just how impactful it would become for both of them. By 2021, they had begun meeting in Goldings’ backyard to play together and posting videos of their jam sessions to social media. The project was immediately recognized by musicians and journalists who saw in the connection of tap dance and jazz, a deep legacy stretching back over 100 years.

It was inevitable that the duo would eventually take the project off the socials and into the studio. From the beginning, they knew that they would need to develop a specific sonic language for the recording. This led them to engineer-producer Pete Min, a man committed to making artful records that explore the space between improvisation and composition, chaos and control, intention and discovery.

One of the challenges of recording with a tap dancer, Goldings and Sullivan found, was that the music had to remain listenable - as music - without dwelling on the process of how it was made. Big Foot finds the balance between making the recording musically compelling without over-manipulating the sonic landscape, truly featuring Sullivan as a percussive dancer. “My main thing,” says Goldings, “was that I wanted people to hear what Melinda does.”  

During the recording sessions, Goldings immersed himself in analog synthesis and employed a catalog of keyboards that would make any electronic enthusiast envious. Sullivan dances in socks, sand and sneakers for the majority of the album, allowing her rhythmic nuance to come forward. The toe, heel, slide, and taps that she coaxes are complex, sometimes evoking brushes on a snare drum, other times tablas or frame drums, and still other times the sound of an analog drum machine or beat box.

Other contributors to the record include Sam Gendel on saxophone and effects, CJ Camerieri on trumpet and flugelhorn, Daphne Chen on violin and viola, and bassist Karl McComas-Reichl. Each of them brings their personal sound to an already unusual party.  And Goldings’ daughter Anna sings a particularly haunting melody on “Do You Like,'' a song that opens with the voice of another luminary, drummer Steve Gadd.  It is Gadd’s voice asking the question “Do you like…?” before he begins to tap out a gently grooving pattern with his hands on a box.

Many of the compositions on Big Foot ibajade awọn iroyin akọkọ, wọn bẹrẹ, wọn ni idagbasoke, wọn bẹrẹ nigbagbogbo dipo. Larry gbọdọ pe, “Awọn awọn iroyin akọkọ jẹ ipa ninu awọn music yi. Ki o si jẹ Björk, ati Joe Zawinul.”  

Ati eyikeyi iroyin ati awọn iroyin ti o le ti wa ni, jọwọ tẹ Big Foot jẹ music ti o dara julọ ti o rọrun lati ṣiṣe ṣugbọn o rọrun lati gbọdọ.

ALBUM CREDITS

Larry Goldings - Steinway Grand piano, Tom Thumb piano, pocket
piano, Hammond organ, Rhodes, Hohner clavinet, celeste, percussion, vocals, Arp 2600, 1972 Moog Moduler Model 12, MiniMoog, Putney VCS 3, Roland Jupiter 8, Roland Jupiter 4, PPG Wave 2.3, Yamaha CS60, Prophet 600, Buchla Music Easel, Mos-Lab 2500, Prophet 5, Yamaha DX7, Roland Juno 60, Oberheim 4
Voice, Ensoniq ESQ 1, Soma Pulsar 22, EMS Putney, Memory Moog
Melinda Sullivan - awọn ẹya ara ẹrọ, soke, ẹya ara ẹrọ, ẹya ara ẹrọ, omi, omi, awọn ẹya ara ẹrọ, awọn ẹya ara ẹrọ
Sam Gendel - alto sax, awọn ipa lori “Clear Day”, “Loose Caboose” ati “Quantize Me”
Steve Gadd - ọwọ ati ọwọ percussion lori “Do You Like”, “Twins” ati “Dyad”
CJ Camerieri - trumpet, flugelhorn lori “Sin Zapatos”, “Twins” ati “Quantize Me”
Daphne Chen - violin, viola lori “Sin Zapatos” ati “Big Foot”
Karl McComas-Reichl - oju-iwe basu lori “Twins”, “Mother Time” ati “Loose Caboose”
Anna Goldings - awọju lori “Do You Like”
Oju-iwe ti Pete Min ni Lucy's Meat Market, Los Angeles, CA
Oju-iwe ti Pete Min, Larry Goldings, ati Melinda Sullivan
Gbogbo awọn ohun elo ti Larry Goldings ati Melinda Sullivan, eyikeyi:
“Sin Zapatos,” ti a ṣe nipasẹ Larry Goldings, Melinda Sullivan ati CJ Camerieri
“Do You Like” “Twins” ati “Dyad,” ti a ṣe nipasẹ Larry Goldings, Melinda Sullivan ati Steve Gadd
“Loose Caboose,” ti a ṣe nipasẹ Larry Goldings, Melinda Sullivan, Karl McComas-Reichl ati Sam Gendel
Mastered nipa Kevin Gray nipa Cohearent Audio
Manufactured nipa RTI
Foti ati awọn ẹya ara ẹrọ ti Mimi Haddon
Cover art nipa Amy Armani
Additional layout by Miles Wintner