Turntablist Guitar - New York City - 1/19/2006

[Andre LaFosse]

(Most of) a show at the 2006 New York Guitar Festival:
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NYC 3.0
Andre LaFosse Live at The Monkey
January 19th, 2006

Part 1: Entwined
http://www.altruistmusic.com/soundfiles/part1.mp3

Part 2: NYC 3.0 -> Serious Drama -> Interference
http://www.altruistmusic.com/soundfiles/part2.mp3

Part 3: NYC 3.1 -> One Way Street -> The Proposition
http://www.altruistmusic.com/soundfiles/part3.mp3

Part 4: Signify -> NYC 3.2 -> NYC 3.3
http://www.altruistmusic.com/soundfiles/part4.mp3

Part 5: NYC 3.4 -> Guilty Party
http://www.altruistmusic.com/soundfiles/part5.mp3

All selections written/improvised by Andre LaFosse.
Recorded by Dominic Frasca.
Post-performance mixing and mastering by Elijah B. Torn and Andre LaFosse.

For this performance, I played a Reverend Rocco electric guitar, through a Vox ToneLab, into an Echoplex Digital Pro controlled by a Digitech PMC-10 MIDI footpedal. No pre-recorded elements or outside sound sources were used. Part 3 contains a post-performance fade-out; Part 2 and Part 4 contain one mid-performance edit each.

Special thanks to David Spelman, Dominic Frasca, Elijah B. Torn, David Torn, Andre Cholmondeley and Cheri Jiosne.

[Mullet Kingdom]

Listening to Entwined right now. It's beautiful. Nicely done.

[rwe333]

Thanks for this - incredible, unique music/playing.

<& thanks to Ken Rosser for hippin' me to your music via his MySpace>

[drezdin]

Wow, absolutely incredibly beautiful!

[JiMB]

Beautiful Andre.

[dkaplowitz]

Very cool stuff. Thanks for posting the links. And welcome to the forum!

[Sub-D]

Thanks for posting those, What a great listen....

[ivers]

Fantastic, creative music, man! Thanks for sharing!

[KRosser]

One of my favorite guitar players! Amazing shit, as usual...

[abergdahl]

GREAT, makes we want to learn looping (maybe I need some playing abilities as well :p ).

inspirational to say the least!!

BTW is there any other looping device besides the Echoplex Digital Pro that could to something similar, or is the Echoplex key for this kind of looping?

Thanks for posting :)

[Cap'n Fingers]

Very creative and involving. I love anyone who can be different
and be good at it. Great stuff!

Thanks for posting and don't be a stranger. :AOK

Mike

[Ed DeGenaro]

Awesome...simply AWESOME!!!!!

[les]

Breathtaking! Moving... Inspirational... Simply unbelievable!

Thanks for sharing these clips!

[Crazyquilt]

Came here from the Reverend thread -- and I'm glad I did! Thanks; wonderful music.

[jimfog]

Really beautiful stuff, Andre.............inspiring.

Not sure if you remember, but I believe we met a few years back when I toured with Bon Lozaga, Happy Rhodes and Caryn Lin under the "Project Lo" name......was more heavily into looping/texturizing back then.......your playing makes me wish I'd stuck with it.

Cheers!

- Jim Fogarty

[Andre LaFosse]

Thanks so much for the very kind feedback, folks - and of course, for listening in the first place. It's deeply appreciated.


BTW is there any other looping device besides the Echoplex Digital Pro that could to something similar, or is the Echoplex key for this kind of looping?


As Splatt so rightly said, there are a lot of functions and possibilities in the Echoplex that are more or less exclusive to that unit. A few of the more prominent features from the Echoplex can be found in other loopers: the momentary Replace function (basically a punch-in function for as long as you hold down the pedal, and a crucial feature for me personally) is on a few units, as is multiply, feedback, and some other features (though, often, they are not implemented in exactly the same manner as the Echoplex).

The unit's particular combination of functions, however - and more importantly, its design philosophy, aesthetic, and interface - is really exclusive to the Echoplex. There are a few free software emulations out there, which seem to work really well for some folks, but to my knowledge (which admittedly isn't much, when it comes to the software looping world) they don't duplicate every single function that's available in the current hardware Echoplex.

A good looper can be approached like an instrument unto itself. So, just as I'd encourage anyone to play a lot of different kinds of guitars before deciding what they want to own, it's a good idea to try a lot of different loopers out. It seems like almost every one that's out there right now has at least one or two really interesting functions that are more or less unique to it - as well as at least one or two intrinsic "quirks," which can be deal-breakers for some folks.

Try to find ones you can work with in person, do some researching about the relative feature sets and design angles behind different units, listen to music that makes explicit use of them, and see which ones spark an interest for you!

Serious thanks again for all the kind ears and kind words, folks.

[Andre LaFosse]

Not sure if you remember, but I believe we met a few years back when I toured with Bon Lozaga, Happy Rhodes and Caryn Lin under the "Project Lo" name......

Hi Jim,

I think you may be confusing me with Andre Cholmondeley, an active East Coast guitarist who also loops (and with whom I crashed when I went out for the gig from whence these recordings come). Easiest way to tell the difference: I'm a white guy with glasses and a beard, whereas my East Coast counterpart is a frequently dreadlocked black gentleman with no apparent eyewear.

Cholmondeley may be best known for running the Zappa tribute band Project/Object: http://www.projectobject.com

Lovely fellow and a very fine musician...

Thanks for the words!

[Priestunes]

Found Andre's music through the purchase of a used EDP two years ago and he helped change my approach to the guitar forever. These tracks show exactly why he was interviewed in Electronic Musician recently.

[zerocrossing]

s'true... but if you've got a kick ass XP based machine already and a firewire/cardbuss interface check out Mobius http://www.zonemobius.com

It's made me a believer. I don't do nearly the loopnastics that Andre does though... oh yeah, and my playing's not nearly as good. ;) Andre, I know I've been a little critical of your glitchcore stuff in the past, but man these tracks are amazing. Perfect! Perhaps there's another CD by you? Must hit your myspace page...

Also, if you need dedicated hardware that's stereo and more than one loop running at a time, check out The Looperlative. http://www.looperlative.com.

Of course, http://www.loopersdelight is a wealth of information more in depth than we could get here.

zerocrossing

forgive me for replying before andré, anders:
as far as hardware goes, only the EDP can be played as he does in those clips;
there are some software possibilities for such techniques, but they're quite a bit more tweak-intensive, and the most powerful of those options is very, very, very expensive.
dt / spltrcl

[John Czajkowski]

I must look into this! Wow! Holly mother of all loops Batman! A very powerful and beautiful statement you are making here. Thanks you so much for posting these clips.

[simeon]

good to see you exposing yourself a bit more andre (as it were!)

fantastic stuff, as usual!

sim

[gainiac]

Wow.....Very cool, love it, puts me in the mood to spin some Peter Gabriel!

Quick question, (under less than ideal listening conditions....) when working with loopers in an ensemble what are some of the things you find yourself doing in order to keep completely sync'd with a drummer?

[lhallam]

Inspirational beauty. Very cool, thanks for posting the clips.

[scottl]

Wow!!! Thanks for joing Andre! I absolutely loved your music and I am ashamed that I did not who you were (especially since I have the GP issue you were in!).

Inspiring to say the least. ;)

Scott

[loopology]

A good looper can be approached like an instrument unto itself. So, just as I'd encourage anyone to play a lot of different kinds of guitars before deciding what they want to own, it's a good idea to try a lot of different loopers out. It seems like almost every one that's out there right now has at least one or two really interesting functions that are more or less unique to it - as well as at least one or two intrinsic "quirks," which can be deal-breakers for some folks.

Try to find ones you can work with in person, do some researching about the relative feature sets and design angles behind different units, listen to music that makes explicit use of them, and see which ones spark an interest for you!

A continuation of this aproach is to decide for one of the loopers and then stick with it (this applies to any kind of gear). I've seen many people changing their gear as frequently as others change their underwear.

By going through the highs and lows with a machine (akin to an interpersonal relationship) the result will gain depth and become increasingly personal ...

[gw_bluesman]

All I can say is .. WOW !!

I am an "Old School", mainly blues guitarist and also happen to be in the software business in my day gig and after hearing your clip "Entwined", I am a changed man.

I really had no idea what using looper is really all about. I have heard a few local guys use one, usually in a solo setting but what I heard in your clips is amazing !!!

It just makes me realize that I need to do listening outside of my normal comfort zone. Thank god for forums like this and musicians like you Andre. I was truly moved !!!