It's Electric, It's Green and it's finally here!I think I might be entering this century because I'm actually doing a digital release. That seems to be the way music is going these days.
Although to be honest, I miss having something to open and look at and read the credits....am I the only one?
The inspiration for this project started one night at a GoGirls Event at Otto's. If you don't know Otto's, it's this total dive bar in New York City. They have funny cups and a photo booth.
Vita and I weren't sure how the trad Irish stuff would go over at Otto's, so we tried something new -an electric set, with Vita's salmon- colored guitar and wah pedal. Our set was a hit, and when we listened to the tape after (yes I did have an actual tape recorder!), we just had to go somewhere with this electric guitar/fiddle concept.
That's not to say that there aren't some of those beautiful acoustic tunes on there too. It's a mix!
Vita took his funky guitar influences, his North African rhythmic influences, some rock, some Rhumba and some of that pretty fingerpicking stuff. I wanted so badly to record something with the bagpipe and piper John Bradley came over and the "All set for St. Pat's" was born.
Vita thinks some of tunes could be in a cartoon, they do make you laugh.
We'll have a few samples at fiddleandguitar.com and then in March it will come out for real to online stores.
When I think of Electricity I think of all the usual things like lights. I also think about that electric feeling coming from the audience during a great show, and that electric feeling between two musicians who love what they do.
I hear it in our new cd, and I hope you do too!
