We talk a lot about jazz here, but I'm also a big fan of indie rock. So today I wanted to share with you a nice story about an album I really love.
I'm a big fan of the bands Interpol, the National and the Walkmen, so when I heard than some members and producers of these bands were getting together to create the "superband" Muzz, I was really excited.
They released the album on June 5 2020, and I may be one of the first to listen to it! The first song of the album is "Bad Feelings", which ends with a beautiful saxophone solo at the end.
When I hear some saxophone on a track, I'm always trying to guess who is the saxophone player :) When it's indie rock music from New York, there is a good chance it could be my friend and Syos artist Stuart Bogie, because he has recorded (and still does!) in a tone of wonderful album from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV on the Radio, Iron & Wine, Elysian Fields, Rufus Wainwright, Arcade Fire, Sharron Von Etten, Cass McCombs, Kevin Morby and a lot more....
Anyway, I opened the CD cover and it was actually him playing on the album :)
So when I met Stuart again in New York last year, we talked about that song and he told me a great story about it!
Josh Kaufman, Stuart's friend and member of Muzz, sent him a track and asked him to play a solo on it. So Stuart sent Josh four or five different options to choose from. When they pulled it up in the studio - the engineer (D James Goodwin) put all the solos up in separate tracks. Then by mistake, he hit play and all the solos came out at once - and Josh loved it, so he kept it this way.
And we are all glad he did, because these different layers of saxophone bring something special to the sound. Stuart says: "It’s a beautiful way of feeling the motion in the music without focusing on the detail of a single line. It reminds me of a dance piece where the dancers all do their own thing at the same time."
I encourage you to listen to Muzz's album in its entirety and to follow Stuart Bogie more closely. He has a new project of ambient music with James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem!
Stuart Bogie is playing on a Tenor Steady mouthpiece in a 7 tip opening.
