Tangential

Last year, I started up a series of duos and trios to perform my loopy improvs at The Blues Iguana and Roo's Bistro. Guitarist Allen Pitts was the first one I tapped to join me. We had just started to evolve the concept when several things kicked in to cause me to shut down Narada Weeps for a few months. After the turn of the year, I contacted Allen and said I wanted to get things going again but I didn't want to use the Narada Weeps name for this. Instead of this being my project and his joining me on my music, I wanted to start up something that was ours--something where he was as instrumental to the creation of the music as I. And thus we have the birth of our group Tangential.

Right now we are working up the music that will be the crux of our debut show, March 24th at the Blues Iguana. After we get a couple of shows under our belt, we will be going into Don Riddle's Deep Rock Studio to record an album. I'm hoping that when Ms Mac goes on summer break in July and August, Allen and I will be able to use that time to perform several more shows. There is even talk of a full performance DVD in the works. Allen is extremely creative and talented and I feel very fortunate to get to work with him.

All of this isn't to say Narada Weeps is going away. I'm still working on tracks here at the house and will be putting out another CD in the June/July mark. And along with squeezing in a solo show or two in the summer, I wouldn't be shocked to see some of it make it's way to a Tangential show--maybe in a slightly modified form (which is a cool thing).

Ms Mac . . . Tangential . . . Narada Weeps . . . ???? . . . sometimes it is very good to be a bass player. ;)

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