Name: 1. Chop Suey/ Louisiana Blues by Adam "Bottleneck" Blake
Duration: 8 min 56 s
Description: Recorded live at Brainchild Festival, 9.7.17

I'm hearing me some Rev. Willie preaching through that guitar. Superb work, sir.

EP6 - Two Blues tunes

Recorded live at Brainchild Festival, 9.7.17

Brainchild 9.7.16

1. Chop Suey/ Louisiana Blues

adam and I did this at Chris wyles place -

Sometimes (Acoustic ).WAV

This week Tim spoke to Marina Blake, the Creative Director of Brainchild festival.

They spoke about the DIY ethos behind the festival, plans for next year's plus their show in conjunction with the Roundhouse next Thursday at Total Refreshment Centre: Brainchild presents: Nubya Garcia & International Jam.
http://bit.ly/2g5QOJ0

She'll also selects some of her favourite cuts.

Tracklist:

Shigeto - When We Low
Luiz Henrique - Mas Que Nada
The Beaters - Harari
Chancha Via Circuito - Encantamiento
Randolph Matthews & Casey Benjamin - Cawlitwatchuwanna (Jazz FM Session)
Lokal Affair - Hala Hala

Marina in conversation

Poppy Ajudha - Spilling Into You (Feat. Kojey Radical)
Emma-Jean Thackray - Birthday Cake
Ishmael Ensemble - Bembe
Ezra Collective - Juan Pablo
Vels Trio Feat. Shabaka Hutchings - 40 Point
Sarathy Korwar - Waiting For First Contact
Eivør - Trøllabundin
Nubya Garcia - Lost Kingdoms
Duval Timothy - Whale
Robert Glasper - J Dillalude

www.musicamacondo.com

Musica Macondo On Jazz FM With Tim Garcia Ft. Marina Blake In Conversation

thinking about what someone told me once about hippies growing avocados on the north coast and doing some other growing as well

Dirty Drug Deal.WAV

Bach composed the chaconne sometime between 1718 and 1720. Historians speculate that Bach composed it after returning from a trip and found that his wife (and the mother of seven of his children) Maria Barbara had died. There is some research that backs this up, Silbiger (1999) and Thoene (2003), for example. 
      I think we can say that this piece is a lament on an Ostinato Bass. Yehudi Menuhin called the Chaconne "the greatest structure for solo violin that exists". Joshua Bell has said the Chaconne is "not just one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but one of the greatest achievements of any man in history. It's a spiritually powerful piece, emotionally powerful, structurally perfect."
      Since Bach's time, several transcriptions of the piece have been made for other instruments, particularly for the piano by Ferruccio Busoni in1893. My arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne in D minor was inspired in part by Busoni’s creative piano. One will also encounter person touches in this rendering.

Chaconne in D minor (after Busoni) by J. S. Bach are. M. L. Vishnick

 mid 90's recorded in south london - me and adam blake  - rather clichéd title but i love the sentiments -- wasted my song writing cash recording  a pop version but this one i like much better  - produced by chris wyles.

Sometimes (Acoustic )

Adam Blake is in for the long haul. After deciding to become a musician at the age of 12, on seeing Steve Winwood’s Traffic and John Martyn at London’s Rainbow Theatre, he got himself an electric guitar for £5 and got to work. 

Nearly 40 years later, he can look back on many gigs on many stages throughout the world, many artists played with (some quite famous, most not at all), some records made, some TV appearances, a lot of travelling – but the one constant throughout all of this has been his love and appreciation of the blues.

Starting with Peter Green, working his way back through the history of the music, Blake has absorbed all the major players in order to find something approaching his own take on the tradition. Playing a selection of open tuned bottleneck slide numbers – drawing from his love of Elmore James and Mississippi Fred McDowell – and then switching to standard tuning to deliver a selection of his own devising, Blake draws the audience in to the stories that the blues have told him, sharing the humour and pathos of these timeless human situations.

After having spent most of his life playing back up guitar or bass or even sitar, Blake is ready to start addressing audiences on his own terms at last. 

For more information please contact:

adamblake77@hotmail.com

or: 07847178240

1. Chop Suey/ Louisiana Blues

Adam "Bottleneck" Blake

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