Tilted Axes combines the energy of rock, the creative discipline of theater, and the experimental spirit of the NYC arts scene. It is both a processional event and an ensemble of mobile electric guitarists using portable amplifiers strapped to their sides as they walk through the city streets. 

A common question is: What is the difference between a procession and a parade? The quick answer is: Intention. Tilted Axes has evolved into a project with multiple incarnations on three continents - in the streets, in museums, in the theater, and at festivals. In each instance, it draws heavily from the local musicians in each city to make up a unique ensemble.
 
The music itself, with interlocking layers often found in World Music, makes room for many kinds of genres and grooves in the compositions. It’s not so much "guitar music," as it is music that’s *about* guitar music. It allows the musicians - soloists, rhythm players, and percussionists - to shine in the uncommon textural power of incidental polyphony. The ensemble adapts itself to the environment or occasion, and feeds on the energy of a constantly shifting audience.

These are studio recordings of that repertoire.
 
Tilted Axes cuts musical pathways through the urban landscape, turning neighborhoods into sonic narratives. As a form of street theater, the ensemble brings potent, ecstatic riffs, and an element of surprise, to an unsuspecting public. Tilted Axes is always in motion; striding in, rocking out, and moving on.

Electric Guitars: 
Patrick Grant, Matt Grossman, Daniel Reyes Llinas, John Halo, Randolph Hudson III, Reinaldo Perez, Nick Didkovsky, Gene Pritsker, Howard Glazer, Anthony Mullin, Larry Simon

Chapman Stick: 
Jeremy Nesse

Electric Bass: 
Dan Cooper, Patrick Grant

Drums & Percussion: 
John Ferrari, Cesare Papetti

Produced by Patrick Grant

Recorded at John Kilgore Sound NYC, Peppergreen Media NYC, and the Ferrari Factory NJ

Recording engineer for Kilgore sessions: Garry Rindfuss
Guitar and amp consultant for Kilgore sessions: Nick Didkovsky

Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios NYC
Mixing engineer: Garry Rindfuss

Mastered by Sheldon Steiger

Tilted Axes logo revamp by Eric Iverson

All titles by Patrick Grant except for Track 8 & Track 13 which include variations on material by Robert Fripp and used by permission of Discipline Global Mobile (DGM)

All titles published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP)

Thanks & Acknowledgements: Aaron Friedman (Make Music New York), D'Addario Strings & Planet Waves, Danelectro, David Singleton (DGM), Electro-Harmonix NYC, Frank Sheldon, Korg USA/Vox Amps, James Gill (Mercy Sound), Jocelyn Gonzales (audio consultation), Michael Spudic & Cia Toscanini (ASCAP), Rivington Guitars NYC, Robert Fripp, Tony Geballe, Vasko Dukovski, and not to forget: Max & Melody

© Peppergreen Media, 2016. All Rights Reserved.
www.peppergreenmedia.com      
www.tiltedaxes.com


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TILTED AXES: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

Patrick Grant
A SEQUENCE OF WAVES
(twelve stories and a dream)

Patrick Grant: guitar, bass, viola, piano, keyboards and percussion
John Ferrari: drums, mallet instruments and percussion
Nick Didkovsky: guitar solo on “Primary Blues"
Dan Cooper: 7-string electric bass
Lynn Bechtold: violin
Dan Barrett: cello

Recorded at John Kilgore Sound NYC, the NYU Film School, Peppergreen Media NYC, and the Ferrari Factory NJ
Album mixing engineer and recording engineer for Kilgore sessions: 
Garry Rindfuss
Recording engineer for NYU Film School sessions: Jocelyn Gonzales
Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios NYC

Mastered by Sheldon Steiger
Produced by Patrick Grant

Prepared piano samples on “Lucid Intervals” were created separately by David Borden (Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co.) and generously supplied for further manipulation here.

The vocal track for “Sevens Years at Sea” (Sept Ans Sur Mer) is from “A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings” (Rounder Records 1500) and is now in the Public Domain. It was recorded by John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana in 1934, and is sung by Elita, Mary, and Ella - the Hoffpauir Sisters.

The field samples and tuned sounds on “One Note Samba” were recorded for this project in New York City and in São Paulo, Brazil.

All titles on this album are by Patrick Grant and published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP) except for “One Note Samba” by Antônio Carlos Jobim and published by Universal Music. Licensing for this recording is provided through the Harry Fox Agency.

Guest soloist Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and band leader.

Album photography: Bob Krasner
Album graphics and layout: Eric Iverson
Peppergreen Media logo: Steve Ball

Thanks and acknowledgements: ASCAP, Gary Beeber, Composers Concordance, The Coney Island Film Festival,  D’Addario Strings & Planet Waves, Electro-Harmonix NYC, O Festival Música Estranha, The Film School at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Robert Fripp, The (formerly known as) Guitar Circle of North America, Independent Music Promotions, Korg USA/Vox Amps, James Moore, James Gill (Mercy Sound), Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Tom Redmond, Som do Brasil on WKCR, Preston Stahly, Kathleen Supove, Tribeca New Music, and Tiny Orchestral Moments (Seattle)

℗ and © Peppergreen Media, 2017. All Rights Reserved.
www.peppergreenmedia.com

A Sequence of Waves (twelve stories and a dream)

Aftermort 2

Aftermort 1

Performed by Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
www.tiltedaxes.com

2 Patrick Grant - Alamo Tilt Excerpt

Two Plus Two by Mander-Grant
Int'l sTRANGE Music Day Mix — August 24, 2022
Co-produced by Oscar Mander and Patrick Grant 
Oscar Mander: guitar, bass, keyboards
Patrick Grant: guitar, bass, keyboards
John Ferrari: drums and percussion
© 2022 Peppergreen Media (ASCAP)

FYRA

STEPTIME

ANDRA

CRWDPLSR

Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars
www.tilted.com

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Check out #tiltedaxes on Flatiron Plaza 12noon-1pm at 23rd St. & Broadway for Open Streets: Car-Free Earth Day on 4/20.

This year, @NYC_DOT is expanding their efforts to promote a greener future! With 54 car-free streets and extended hours of operation, Car-Free Earth Day is bigger and better than ever. Mark your calendars for 4/20, 10AM-4PM and join us in making a positive impact on our planet. 🌎

To help you enjoy the car-free streets @CitiBike (powered by @lyft) is offering unlimited 30 minute rides for 24 hours by using promo code CARFREE24 in the Citi Bike app on 4/20

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Pelog Pulse

Electric Guitars: 
Patrick Grant, Matt Grossman, Daniel Reyes Llinas, John Halo, Randolph Hudson III, Reinaldo Perez, Nick Didkovsky, Gene Pritsker, Howard Glazer, Anthony Mullin, Larry Simon

Chapman Stick: 
Jeremy Nesse

Electric Bass: 
Dan Cooper, Patrick Grant

Drums & Percussion: 
John Ferrari, Cesare Papetti

Produced by Patrick Grant

Recorded at John Kilgore Sound NYC, Peppergreen Media NYC, and the Ferrari Factory NJ

Recording engineer for Kilgore sessions: Garry Rindfuss
Guitar and amp consultant for Kilgore sessions: Nick Didkovsky

Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios NYC
Mixing engineer: Garry Rindfuss

Mastered by Sheldon Steiger

Tilted Axes logo revamp by Eric Iverson

All titles by Patrick Grant except for Track 8 & Track 13 which include variations on material by Robert Fripp and are used by permission of Discipline Global Mobile (DGM)

All titles published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP)

Thanks & Acknowledgements: Aaron Friedman (Make Music New York), D'Addario Strings & Planet Waves, Danelectro, David Singleton (DGM), Electro-Harmonix NYC, Korg USA/Vox Amps, James Gill (Mercy Sound), Jocelyn Gonzales (audio consultation), Michael Spudic & Cia Toscanini (ASCAP), Rivington Guitars NYC, Robert Fripp, Tony Geballe, Vasko Dukovski, and not to forget: Max & Melody

www.tiltedaxes.com


Tilted Axes: Music for Mobile Electric Guitars

Polymetric Patterns

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Theme Variation

Pedal Swells

Tilted Axes Theme

Circulation in G Maybe

Circulation In G Maybe

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cOMbobulation

Patrick Grant
A SEQUENCE OF WAVES
(twelve stories and a dream)

Patrick Grant: guitar, bass, viola, piano, keyboards and percussion
John Ferrari: drums, mallet instruments and percussion
Nick Didkovsky: guitar solo on “Primary Blues"
Dan Cooper: 7-string electric bass
Lynn Bechtold: violin
Dan Barrett: cello

Recorded at John Kilgore Sound NYC, the NYU Film School, Peppergreen Media NYC, and the Ferrari Factory NJ
Album mixing engineer and recording engineer for Kilgore sessions: Garry Rindfuss
Recording engineer for NYU Film School sessions: Jocelyn Gonzales
Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios NYC

Mastered by Sheldon Steiger
Produced by Patrick Grant

Prepared piano samples on “Lucid Intervals” were created separately by David Borden (Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co.) and generously supplied for further manipulation here.

The vocal track for “Sevens Years at Sea” (Sept Ans Sur Mer) is from “A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings” (Rounder Records 1500) and is now in the Public Domain. It was recorded by John and Alan Lomax in Louisiana in 1934, and is sung by Elita, Mary, and Ella - the Hoffpauir Sisters.

The field samples and tuned sounds on “One Note Samba” were recorded for this project in New York City and in São Paulo, Brazil.

All titles on this album are by Patrick Grant and published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP) except for “One Note Samba” by Antônio Carlos Jobim and published by Universal Music. Licensing for this recording is provided through the Harry Fox Agency.

Guest soloist Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and band leader.

Album photography: Bob Krasner
Album graphics and layout: Eric Iverson
Peppergreen Media logo: Steve Ball

Thanks and acknowledgements: ASCAP, Gary Beeber, Composers Concordance, The Coney Island Film Festival,  D’Addario Strings & Planet Waves, Electro-Harmonix NYC, O Festival Música Estranha, The Film School at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Robert Fripp, The (formerly known as) Guitar Circle of North America, Independent Music Promotions, Korg USA/Vox Amps, James Moore, James Gill (Mercy Sound), Milica Paranosic, Gene Pritsker, Tom Redmond, Som do Brasil on WKCR, Preston Stahly, Kathleen Supove, Tribeca New Music, and Tiny Orchestral Moments (Seattle)

℗ and © Peppergreen Media, 2017. All Rights Reserved.
www.peppergreenmedia.com

01 Lucid Intervals

09 Lonely Ride Coney Island

03 Prelude I

04 Alcohol

05 Tobacco

02 Driving Patterns

12 To Find a Form That Accommodates the Mess

PATRICK GRANT
FIELDS AMAZE  and other sTRANGE music
new recording + bonus tracks

1. KEEPING STILL                                                                         
percussion quintet

2. FIELDS AMAZE
homemade gamelan & microtonal keyboard

3. A VISIBLE TRACK OF TURBULENCE I  
flute, clarinet, & piano

4. EVERYTHING DISTINCT: EVERYTHING THE SAME
three keyboards in Gb just intonation & three percussion

5. A VISIBLE TRACK OF TURBULENCE II
flute, clarinet, & piano

6. IMAGINARY HORROR FILM - Part 1                                                   
electric chamber ensemble
     
     The Accident - Hospital - Nine Months Later
     Daily Living (Gnossienne) - Baiting the Trap - Going for a Drive

7. THE WEIGHTS OF NUMBERS a.k.a. Fractured Fictions
three electronic keyboards & drum kit

8. IMAGINARY HORROR FILM - Part 2                                                  
electric chamber ensemble
     
     Cemetery - Hitchhiker No. 3 - Unsuspecting Victim
     Under the Knife - Evening Prayer - New Day to Face - End Title

9. IF ONE SHOULD HAPPEN TO FALL
singer vs. thesaurus

Patrick Grant: piano, keyboards, electric guitars, gamelan, percussion 
John Ferrari: drums & percussion
Kathleen Supove & Marija Ilic: keyboards
Barbara Benary: additional gamelan
David Simons: Balinese percussion & theremin
Keith Bonner: flute
Thomas P. Oberle: clarinet
Darryl Gregory: trombone
Martha Mooke: viola
Maxine Neumann: cello
Mark Steven Brooks: electric bass
Alexandra Montano: vocalise
Lisa Karrer: lead vocal on If One Should Happen to Fall

All 2018 production, overdubs, revisions, and new stems recorded at Peppergreen Media, NYC and The Ferrari Factory, NJ. Mixed at Mercy Sound Studios, NYC - Garry Rindfuss: mixing engineer - Sheldon Steiger: album mastering - Patrick Grant: producer

Cover photo Cuming Co. Supercell, June 14, 2013 taken by Dave Rebot and used with permission. Flowchart graphic by Peppergreen Media. Album artwork, layout, and design by Eric Iverson. Peppergreen Media logo by Steve Ball. CD image collage inspired by Elément bleu XII, 1967 by Jean Dubuffet, photo credit: sTRANGE Music archive.

All music © 1997-2018 Patrick Grant and published by Peppergreen Media (ASCAP). This album ℗ 2018. All rights reserved.

08 - Imaginary Horror Film - Part 2

TWENTY-ONE TWENTY-THREE (1980)
music: Patrick Grant & Rick Matle
words: Patrick Grant
performed by The Reptiles

I’m not here, I am there, don’t you care? I am theirs, I wanna be me
Black & White, Ultra-brite, a red light, a wrong right in Twenty-One Twenty-Three

Parking lot Camelots wait for shoppers like the wastelands ‘cause we’ve all got what we need
Mutant creep tries to tackle Palm Beach in 3D in 3D in Twenty-One Twenty-Three

And to think they thought all their knowledge brought Unquestioned Certainty
All emotion lost, a mere cost of their Waxing Productivity
Twenty-One Twenty-Three

Organic messianic politician on a governmental future-shock Mission of Love
A new wife, a planned life, gotta make, gotta make that New Breed in Twenty-One Twenty-Three

And to think they thought all their knowledge brought Unquestioned Certainty
All emotion lost, a mere cost of their Waxing Productivity
Twenty-One Twenty-Three

[keyboard solo]

Twenty-One Twenty-Three
Twenty-One Twenty-Three
Twenty-One Twenty-Three
Twenty-One Twenty-Three
Twenty-One Twenty-Three

[guitar solo]

And to think they thought all their knowledge brought Unquestioned Certainty
All emotion lost, a mere cost of their Waxing Productivity
Twenty-One Twenty-Three

The Reptiles
Patrick Grant, Rob Matson, Rick Matle, John Figley

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