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08 October 2024: Tony Levin; Nad Sylvan & Bonamici (aka Christian Thordin) - Unifaun

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 Bringing it Down to the Bass
Over the past half century, Tony Levin has been a prolific session player and one of the most active live performers on the planet. He’s contributed his talents to over five hundred albums amongst which include 15 with Peter Gabriel and 18 with King Crimson (counting live, studio, and compilations) alongside contributions to the work of John Lennon, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Herbie Mann, Paul Simon and many others. On tour, he’s traveled the World many times over with the aforementioned King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, and several of his own bands including Stick Men
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This Fall, he’ll stage 65 performances in North America as a member of BEAT, celebrating King Crimson’s ‘80s repertoire alongside Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Danny Carey interpreting “Discipline, Beat and Three of a Perfect Pair.”

Levin’s seventh solo album, and his first since 2007, is an autobiography of sorts, with the themes drawn from Levin’s musical life. It features a myriad of collaborators from his half-century-plus on the road and in the studio with Peter Gabriel, King Crimson and many, many others.

Features a Murderer’s Row of guest musicians including Robert Fripp, Vinnie Colaiuta, Earl Slick, Mike Portnoy, Steve Gadd, Jerry Marotta, Gary Husband, L. Shankar, Pete Levin, Jeremy Stacey, David Torn, Pat Mastelotto, Larry Fast, Steve Hunter, Manu Katche, Alex Foster, Dominic Miller, Markus Reuter, Collin Gatwood, Chris Pasin, Jay Collins, Josh Shpak, Don Mikkelsen. 

credits

released September 13, 2024

1. BRINGING IT DOWN TO THE BASS
Drums: Manu Katche
Guitar: (solo) Dominic Miller
Keyboard: Pete Levin
Trumpet: Chris Pasin
Alto sax: (solo) Alex Foster
Baritone sax: Jay Collins
Bass: TL
Drums recorded by Toby Gendron at Planet Studios, Montreal
Guitar recorded by Tony Lake
Horns recorded by Scott Petito at NRS Studio
Horn arrangement by Pete Levin

2. ME AND MY AXE
Drums: Jerry Marotta
Guitar: Steve Hunter
Keyboards: Larry Fast, Pete Levin
Bass: TL
Drums recorded by Ariel Shafir at Dreamland Studios

3. ROAD DOGS
Drums: Jeremy Stacey
Keyboard: Pete Levin
Bridge rhythm touch guitar: Markus Reuter
Bass, cello, stick, vox: TL
Drums recorded by Milo Jerreira-Hayes at The Bert Jansch Studio

4. UNCLE FUNKSTER
Drums: Vinnie Colaiuta
Stick: TL

5. BOSTON ROCKS
Drums: Mike Portnoy
Guitar: Earl Slick
Keyboard: Gary Husband
Stick, vox: TL
Guitar recorded by Ariel Shafir at Dreamland Studios

6. ESPRESSOVILLE
Drums: Steve Gadd
Guitar: Joe Caro
Keyboard: Pete Levin
Bass: TL
Trumpet: Josh Shpak
Trumpet: Chris Pasin
Trombone: Don Mikkelsen
Drums recorded by Rob Katz at Wackerman Studios
Horn arrangement: Pete Levin
Espresso machine sounds by Tony’s Breville

7. GIVE THE CELLO SOME
Drums: Jerry Marotta
Organ: Pete Levin
NS cello, bass, vox: TL
Drums recorded by Ariel Shafir at Jersville Studio

8. SIDE B / TURN IT OVER
Vox and bass: TL

9. BEYOND THE BASS CLEF
Violin: L. Shankar (Shenkar)
Keyboards: Gary Husband
Oboe, English horn: Colin Gatwood
Stick, cello, bass: TL

10. BUNGIE BASS
Drums: Pat Mastelotto
Guitar: David Torn
NS Bass, cello: TL

11. FIRE CROSS THE SKY
Stick, vox: TL

12. FLOATING IN DARK WATERS
Soundscape: Robert Fripp
Percussion: Jerry Marotta
Steinberger bass: TL

13. ON THE DRUMS
Vox: TL

14. CODA
Cello: Linnea Olsson, & Bess Brydolf (in utero)
NS Bass, piano: TL 
 
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  Unifaun biography
Founded in 2004

Nad Sylvan and Bonamici (aka Christian Thordin) accidently stumbled upon each other on the Genesis website´s forum in 2003. Bon had written an instrumental song, "Tribute to Genesis" and wanted some critics from Genesis board members. Nad certainly liked it, contacted Bon and suggested a collaboration. Since they both live in Sweden, they teamed up quite effortlessly. What they both seemed to have in common, besides a passionate love for progressive rock, was also their backgrounds; At the age of five, both Nad and Bon started to play the piano - only relying upon their ears as they are self-taught.

Bon musical journey wandered towards jazz, fusion, folk/world music and latterly progressive rock.
He studied and improvised music at Hubbard High School, Ohio, USA 1977-78 and played keyboards in various musical constellations in the US, Sweden and Norway during the 70´s and 80´s.

With a young family and racing two small kids during the 90´s as his primary, it wasn´t until the 00´s that time had come for a full-blown musical endeavour, composing in many different styles - but in general more in the tradition of world/folk music as well as piano driven jazz excursions.

Nad picked up on his singing ability in his early teens, just as he did with a few more instruments besides the piano. Writing/recording and performing his own songs as a solo artist and in various bands throughout the 70´s, 80´s and the 90´s has become a lifestyle.

He looks at his singing voice being more of that of an instrument that can be "tuned" and changed to fit the music, rather than the other way around, hence the associations with Collins/Gabriel. You listen to Nad´s solo work, and you will hear quite a different approach - yes, Nad is a chameleon!

After three solo albums from 1995-2003, where Nad played and sang everything himself - he longed for a long term musical relationship, and found the perfect partner in Bonamici.

Together with Nad, progressive rock have become the foundation of this duo - and in the old farm house, Bon´s studio has grown into a high tech facility, incorporating everything from advanced gear for creating motion pictures, to all kinds of vintage- as well as software instruments.

With this first offering with "UNIFAUN", the duo set out to do "the songs Genesis never did", initially as a very innocent flirt with their old heroes and basically just for fun and games - very much with a glint in the eye!
After the second song ("Mr. Marmaduke and the Minister") had been uploaded to their website, a demand for a full album began to emerge from fans of both Gabriel- and Collins era Genesis. Seemed like fun!

After four years of writing/recording - the duo where approached by Hansi Cross of Progress Records, Sweden. And here we are.

"Ok, we survived goal number one! Now we must live up to the next one, "to become rock stars before we hit 50!", says Nad, 49 and Bon, 48... :)

Biography provided by Nad Sylvan of UNIFAUN
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03 December 2019: Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney; Intergalactic Touring Band


Concerts are unique experiences especially when the musicians on stage are improvising. Tracks grow and build only to be torn down and from the sonic debris the next piece slowly coalesces and takes its own shape.

This organic process comes naturally to DiN label boss Ian Boddy and his long time musical collaborator Nigel Mullaney. They have between them a wealth of experience both on the DiN label and in the commercial world of music production. Utilising an array of modular synth racks as well as hands on sequencers and drum machines the duo can constantly mold and shape their performances. Along with Boddy’s signature Ondes Martenot synth lead lines and Mullaney’s tasty Moog keyboard licks Schemes & Ruses is an audio document of their performance at the Capstone Theatre in Liverpool on 2nd March 2019. The evening was a celebration of the DiN label and it’s 20th year anniversary and the duo were supported by d’Voxx who recently released their debut album Télégraphe (DiN58) on the label.

The music starts in mysterious fashion with the enigmatic “Hidden Rooms” which builds to an astonishing orchestral climax before the steady, insistent drum grooves of Mullaney take over. Boddy’s Berlin School tinted sequence lines intertwine with these rhythms as the performance takes the listener on a sonic journey from ambient atmospheres to toe tapping slices of up tempo electronica that slowly increase in intensity to the heavily sequenced encore track “Showdown”.

Released on the download only sub-label of DiN Schemes & Ruses showcases two musicians whose natural habitat is as much on the stage as in a studio and captures a mesmerising one off evening of live electronic music. 

credits

released November 15, 2019

All tracks composed, played and produced by Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney.

Recorded live at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool on 2nd March 2019.

Mixed & mastered by Nigel Mullaney (May 2019).

Cover image Wendy Carroll
Concert promotion Neil Campbell
Sound engineer & lights David Williams

Ian Boddy:
Eurorack modular, Roland System 500, Analogue Systems French Connection, Folktek Resonant Garden

Nigel Mullaney:
Eurorack modular, Polyend SEQ, Elektron Digitone & Digitaky, Moog Sub37

www.ianboddy.com
www.nigelmullaney.com


Intergalactic Touring Band

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The Intergalactic Touring Band (IGTB) was not an actual music group but rather a science fiction pop music concept album released in 1977 by the now defunct Passport Records in America and Charisma Records in England. The ensemble album featured many star performers from progressive rock and other genres, including Meat Loaf, Ben E. King, Larry Fast (Synergy), Percy Jones, Annie Haslam, Rod Argent, Peppi Marchello (Good Rats),[1] and many others. The songs are loosely held together by an epic theme of multi-generational space travel and human space colonization.

Fictional band members[edit]

  • Hope Larson — Lase Keyboard Panel
  • Ixol Phaane — Computerized Keyboard Synthesis
  • Justice Conrad — Globe Lase Base
  • Krys — Holographic Percussion
  • Raif Reed — Lase Guitar

List of songs and performers[edit]

Approach (Overture)
Silver Lady
Universal Zoo/Why
  • Lead vocal, "Universal Zoo": Arthur Brown
  • Lead vocal, "Why": Joel Krantz
  • Electric guitars: David Scance
  • Fender bass: Peter Sobel
  • Fretless Bass on "Why": Percy Jones
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Primitive percussion: Paul Marchetti, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
  • Synthesizers and vocoder: Larry Fast
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
  • Additional vocals: Marty Scott, Peter Sobel, Bill Guerra
  • Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
  • Effects vocal: "The Boss"
Starship Jingle
  • Lead vocal: Peppi Marchello (misspelled Pepe in album credits)
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Electric Autoharp: Marty Scott
  • Fender bass: Peter Sobel
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Flutes: John Zangrando
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
  • Prepared effects: Larry Fast, Marty Scott, Peter Sobel
  • Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone, Stephan Galfas
Heartbreaker
  • Lead vocal: Dave Cousins
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Flutes: John Zangrando
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
  • Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas
Reaching Out
First Landing
  • Lead vocal: Steve Barth
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Bass guitar: Frank Prescod and Peter Sobel
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Additional percussion: Mighty Young Joe Intile, B. E.
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone and Danny Beckerman
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
  • Additional vocals: The Passport Munchkins
Space Commando
  • Lead vocal: Mr. Snips
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Additional percussion: Marty Scott
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford and Stephan Galfas
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
Robot Salesman
  • Lead vocal: Jim Cuomo
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Electric guitar: Ryche Chlanda
  • Acoustic guitar: Peter Sobel
  • Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Synthesizers, Mellotron and vocoder: Larry Fast
  • Orchestral arrangement: Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo
Love Station
  • Lead vocal: Ben E. King
  • Electric guitars: John Tropea
  • Bass guitar: Frank Prescod
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Additional percussion: Peter Sobel
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Saxophone solo: Clarence Clemons
  • Guitar solo: John Tropea
  • Orchestral arrangement: David Bedford, Stephan Galfas and Brian Cuomo
  • Background vocals: Janice Pendarvis and Friends
A Planet Called Monday/Epilogue
  • Lead vocal, "A Planet Called Monday": Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt
  • Lead vocal, "Epilogue": Jeffrey Leynor
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson, David Scance
  • Orchestral arrangement: Danny Beckerman
  • Electric guitars: David Scance
  • Bass guitar: Peter Sobel
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
Keeper Keep Us
  • Lead vocal: Meat Loaf
  • Electric and acoustic guitars: David Scance
  • Acoustic and bass guitars: Peter Sobel
  • Fretless bass: Percy Jones
  • Keyboards: Brian Cuomo
  • Drums and percussion: Paul Marchetti
  • Synthesizers: Larry Fast
  • Group vocals: Joel Krantz, Frank D'Agostino, Shelley Thompson
  • Orchestral arrangement: Wil Malone


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