Recorded largely with portable digital devices in casual settings like hotel rooms or apartments as levin toured the world in peter gabriels band, the album is mostly a series of duets or trios. World diary presents instrumental duets, trios and more, recorded around the world with some fascinating musicians. Pat mastelottos mastica pat mastelottos mastica web site. World diary resonator any opinions or other suggestions. Mike manieri, tony levin, steve gadd, david spinozza, warren berhardt limage about. He grew up in the suburb of brookline and began playing upright bass at 10 yrs old. There are also a number of short interludes of bruford playing a derelict piano in levin s garage, and both bruford and levin simultaneously playing a. Ogada has collaborated with susheela raman on several tracks on her salt rain album, such as o rama, and with tony levin on his album world diary. Fans know tony levin primarily as the bassist for king crimson and peter gabriel, but his career has always been far more complex than that hes played all over the world with musicians from diverse cultures and backgrounds, and given his status as both a bass virtuoso and as one of the very few players of the chapman stick a 12stringed instrument designed to be played simultaneously as a. One of the best and the favourite 19 september 2019.
This band consists of jerry marotta, jesse gress, larry fast, and tony levin s brother, pete levin. Then again, it may well be a case of chicken and egg. World diary is tony levin s first solo cd, as you might expect from the bassist and stick player with peter gabrie, king crimson,stick men, and is an unusual project. Tony levin is one of rocks greatest living bass players. World diary nexus with tony levin papa bear records. All of my transcriptions are in pdf form, originally done in finale, and are available only in notation. Recorded largely with portable digital devices in casual settings like hotel rooms or apartments as levin toured the world in peter gabriels band, the album is mostly a series of duets or trios track listing all songs composed by levin and his respective collaborators. Tony levins road diary the official tony levin website. His music was used in the soundtrack for ewan mcgregor and charlie boormans bbc series long way round and long way down.
Fans know tony levin primarily as the bassist for king crimson and peter gabriel, but his career has always been far more complex than that hes played all over the world with musicians from diverse cultures and backgrounds, and given his status as both a bass virtuoso and as one of the very few players of the chapman stick a 12stringed. Tony levin is best known for being part of king crimson in the 80s and 90s, but he has also played with peter gabriel, anderson bruford wakeman howe, and others. What changed is that levin himself composed all the tracks here and almost all. Tony levinwhat to getneed advice steve hoffman music. Because our mp3s have no drm, you can play it on any device that supports mp3, even on your ipod. He also plays a lot of stick, the electronic guitarbass hybrid he made famous. This venue has very good sound, and it was one of our best shows read tony levin s latest diary here.
Anthony frederick levin born june 6, 1946 is an american musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, chapman stick and upright bass. The name of the three men on this album will at once astonish, excite, and confuse. Levin has released a small discography over the years, but other than the largely recorded on the road and in hotel rooms world diary papa bear, 1996, hes never released an album thats so clearly. Here he is performing live with his own band, the tony levin band, the lineup of which also includes jerry marotta on drums, jesse gress on guitars, and larry fast on synthesizers. On this record, he collaborates with musicians from around the world, showcasing his ability to blend with other musical styles while still making musical statements of his own. Even the terms weblog and blog were coined in 1997 and 1999. Bassist tony levin has been sharing his road experiences here since 1996 which sounds fairly recent, but in the internet world, it isnt. World diary by tony levin, released 01 january 2000 1. Nexus and tony levin nexus with tony levin on chapman stick notes. As tony toured the world, he looked up local ethnic musicians, jammed with them and recorded the results.
Track listing all songs composed by levin and his respective collaborators. Lay your head on my pillow here you can be yourself no one has to know what you are feeling no one but me and you, ooh i wont tell your secrets your secrets are safe. World diary, waters of eden, resonator, pieces of the sun, stick man. Levin is best known for his work with king crimson and peter gabriel.
Jaxie binder, a member of the seattle guitar circle, explains the guitar circle communitys plans to honour bill rieflins memory next week. Two diaries updated, and both writing the kc performance in montreal was one of the best. Home forums discussions music corner tony levin what to getneed advice. Levin is bestknown for his work with progressive rock pioneers king crimson and peter gabriel. High quality tony levin mp3 downloads from 7digital united states.
In high school, he picked up tuba, soloing with the concert band. Tony levin born june 6, 1946, boston, massachusetts is an american rock musician, specializing in bass guitar, chapman stick and upright bass although he also sings, plays tuba and synthesizer. We have over 400 archived tour pages on the site with about 6,800 photos and were happy to. He also regularly plays live and occasionally records with the california guitar trio when schedules permit. In general, im interested in producing transcriptions that are not available elsewhere, rather than repeating. Stream adfree or purchase cds and mp3s now on amazon. Tony levin s road diary the official tony levin site. Black light syndrome by bozzio levin stevens album. Komara biography komara is the latest project by the 3 esteemed musicians, drummer pat mastelotto mostly known as king crimsons drummer for the past 20 years as well as a part of tony levin s stick men, slovakian guitar player and composer david kollar and italian trumpeter paolo raineri. While touring with his band in 2000, levin wowed audiences around the country, and fans clamored for an album with the group. Find album credit information for world diary tony levin on allmusic. Bill bruford tony levin with david torn chris botti. World diary is the debut solo album by american bass guitarist tony levin.
Adrian belew, tony levin, and pat mastelottos music camp site. The focus of moonjune is to discover and release music by artists from a variety of international settings the ongoing goal of moonjune is to support music that transcends stylistic pigeonholing, but operates within an evolutionary progressive musical continuum that explores boundaries of jazz, rock, avant, ethno, the unknown and anything in. An instrumental progrock masterpiece that will take its place alongside larks tongues in aspic as an indispensable example of how music can open up parts of your head you didnt know you had, black light syndrome takes its name from terry bozzio, tony levin, and steve stevens. Weekend edition saturday for september 15, 2001 hear the weekend edition saturday program for september 15, 2001. Tony levin 2000 waters of eden waters of eden differ from world diary quite a lot, but levin has succeeded in maintaing the excellent level with which he started his solo career. I dont use tab in my teaching or personally in my own playing, and i think notation is the most accurate representation.
King crimson 2019 americas tour north and south america. Discussion in music corner started by gkella, apr 15, 2017. This is the short version of the piece, the full being too long for this cd. Free download gift given by stick men bootlegs 20180926 dosey doe, houston, tx board mix free download. Levin also continued producing albums with his own band, the tony levin band. Tony levin s cd, world diary, is a great place to hear his stick playing. Mp3 is a digital audio format without digital rights management drm technology.
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