Nate McBride - DANODUE (February 2022)

This is the second installment of the DANO project, a series of solo electric bass recordings on a Danelectro 3412 bass. Where the first was about the pure sound of the instrument and was improvised, DANODUE is all songs.

LIPS is thinking about my brother, who goes by Cakes.

JOE MCPHEE was recorded twice, but you hear the telephone demo here.

PLOW FLEET RADIO and the rest of this record was made during a Nor'easter and couldn’t help being named after the yellow and orange trucks working the street out the window, all that day and night.

STACKS is clearly to Stacks, and CROPS for the Colonel. I think about the sound of their playing all the time.

1936 is the only one of these songs that’s been played elsewhere, it was written for a solo show in 2019.

All of these were recorded in single passes and then left alone, though I would have loved to edit the major clam on STACKS. Per the rules and to obtain more “wood” sound from the bass, no overdubs, effects or preparations were used.

1. Stacks 04:20

2. Plow Fleet Radio 03:45

3. Joe McPhee 04:51

4. 1936 02:58

5. Crops 04:21

6. Lips 07:17

PRE-ORDER

Pandelis Karayorgis Trio (Nate McBride / Luther Gray) - Pools (DRIFF RECORDS October 1, 2018)

Pools brings together three long-time musical collaborators into a new trio. Karayorgis has worked in other piano trios with McBride (with Randy Peterson and Curt Newton) and Gray (with Jef Charland) before, but here they play off of an expanded conception of restrained intensity and three-way dialogue that adds a new chapter to this thread. The three have forged a strong musical bond over the years by playing together in many different formations and are currently playing frequently as the rhythm section of the quintet Cutout (along with trombonist Jeb Bishop and saxophonist Jorrit Dijkstra).

For this set, made in July 2018 during an informal house recording session, they get a chance to stretch out as a trio, playing mostly original pieces by Karayorgis along with a free improvisation and a blues.

Pandelis Karayorgis, piano

Nate McBride, bass

Luther Gray, drums

1. Roil 07:54

2. Last One 07:47

3. How Daisies Jiggle 06:45

4. Entanglement 06:59

5. allbyitself 07:32

6. Blues 06:43

7. Neumes 05:31

8. Slack Tide 06:43

All compositions (except tracks 2 & 6) by Pandelis Karayorgis: © Stray Line Publishing, ASCAP. Recorded in Cambridge, Mass., July 18, 2018. Recording, mixing, and cover art by Pandelis Karayorgis. Graphic layout by Hidde Dijkstra.