(((P u r e S o u n D)))CD
Press Release ........for immediate release
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
at
(((Puresound)))CD Maui
Slack Key Legend Uncle Sol with Chance
at PuresoundCD Studios
in Kahului, Maui
I know it's the same
picture but since then I've released "Chance Gardner
- A Slack in the Key of Integrity". It's a CD
recorded live two nights by me solely becauser I had to
express my feelings over the last year (2003) here at
Puresound Studios.
"A Slack in the Key of Integrity" was recorded
partly because of Uncle Sol. After I invited him to
record a new album for Manawa Records he said "no,
I've had my time, now the new people, it's their time to
record the new music, you should make a CD of your modern
slack key...." So I did. I recorded "A Slack in
the Key of Integrity" for Uncle Sol ('cause I really
wanted to leave him a legacy...because he had already
been used and abused by the powers that be and he didn't
want to be used as a tool for other people to profit from
his talent and he said that his work at the Bailey House
was more important; to teach, "because that is the
way").
"A Slack in the Key of Integrity" is my personal statement. Recorded live to 2-tack without overdubs, etc. It wasn't even planned, I turned the recorder on and figured out the songs to play as I went along. The first night I turned on the recorder with 3 mikes: one on the acoustic(not acoustic-electric) guitar, one for vocals and one room mike and played what was on my mind. Recording in this way would make it impossible to overdub or fix mistakes in pitch or fingering (integrity). All the original songs except for "More in Love With You" were not written with Slack Key in mind but they adapted well to the format. In Traditional Hawaiian music and Slack Key the one or two verses are repeated and rarely do songs have a bridge. I tried to follow that while imposing a more western feel with travis picking and Delta Blues scales.
"HAWAII
MUSIC AWARDS Winners!!!
Manawa Records artists won 4 awards in
2003!!. Since then add Bradda Francis's
second CD Paniolo Ghostriders (2005 Best Paniolo CD),
Chance and the BluesDaddies's Deaf Dog Blues (2004 Best
Blues CD), Internacionales Pasteles (2004 Best Latin
CD)...all in all since 2002 nine Hawaii Music Awards from
"the little studio that could". These awards
are extra special because they come from internet voting
worldwide, not from a jury of club members.
Other news of note since the last newsletter (Who can remember?):
Patrick McDonald mixing down the new Knitters CD
Commercial work for Disney on Ice Australian Tour with James K. Ward as the voices of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger(Did you see him as the General in Spider Man?).
Also recording the voiceover on 5 national Saturn commercials with TV show Friends's Paul Rudd ("People first..."),also Mauna Loa radio ad with the voice of BRADO, one of our local treasures.
Chance Gardner
