Re: One Guitarist, One Drummer was: Altered Tunings

["Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>]

> --Mark wrote:
> "have to have a bass player.. infact it was just me, the drummer and the 
> singer, she also fired off
> samples. small band... big noise!!!"
>
> Yeah, it's cool that you said this, Mark.  Lately I"ve been fascinated 
>by 
> the concept of a band with
> only a drummer and a guitarist (with augmenting effects).

That's what I've been mainly doing for the last year. Me and Robert 
Sterling 
(Kribophoric) and our two Visceral CDs, plus me and Robert at Y2K8,  and 
Jared Hallock and our CD "Interstellar Delirium".....me and Robert at both 
BEMF in Boise and Y2K8, and then you and I at Y2K7.

To me the guitar/drum duo, if the feel is right, is getting close to the 
simplicity of Coltrane's Interstellar Space and Meditations...just sax and 
drums.  Pure and simple.  Robert and I are working our third CD, BTW.

With some basic looping and effects, there is really no need for any other 
instrument in this duo context. A good percussionist will completely 
flourish in this arrangement. And of course, a guitarist also has a lot of 
latitude to utilize his/her full chops or allow a lot of space, etc.

Kris