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 January 22, 2009 | Christopher Guest "taps" into acoustic
We mentioned the well-known comedian, actor/wirter/director in November 2007 article, Acoustic project on tap for Tap. Pop-culture icon Chrisopher Guest (alter ego Nigel Tufnel from the 80's rockumentary, Spinal Tap) had been presented with an honorary Doctoral Degree from the prestigious Berklee School of Music, mentioning an acoustic project in the oven, with him slinging mandolin (Collings & Moteleone), mandola (Gibson '24) and K mandocello (Gibson '16"). We're pleased to see the CD's recent release, "Memories of Summer as a Child" by the band's name, "The Beyman Brothers." Exquisite sound samples are online at there website and MySpace page, and preliminary audio previews are most impressive.
The music is vibrant yet meditative (the Dharma Moon label produces Yoga videos, after all), not quite "New Age-ish" with some Folk/Bluegrass textures and progressive harmonic vocabularies, woven midst Pop music sensibilities. We dig it, and hope to hear more from the collaboration.
The Beyman Brothers
Artist website: The Beyman Brothers
View video of the band in recording session: Moons of Tunis
Label: Dharma Moon
[Nigel Tufnel is showing Marty DiBergi one of his favorite guitars]
Nigel Tufnel: The sustain, listen to it.
Marty DiBergi: I don't hear anything.
Nigel Tufnel: Well you would though, if it were playing.
Posted by Ted at January 22, 2009 7:02 AM
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