Ny super konstellation af den nye generation af spillemænd fra Det Fynske Musikkonservatoriums folkemusiklinie.
Kvartetten var første gang samlet i 2004, da de skulle optræde som en del af Det Fynske Musikkonservatoriums koncert på Tønder Festival. De fire musikere fandt hurtigt ud af, at en enkelt koncert var for lidt og leverer nu resultatet af mange timer i øvelokalet.
Kvartetten henter sin musikalske inspiration fra det meste af verden, og rejsen går forbi såvel Amerika som Mellemøsten, før vi igen når de hjemlige farvande.
På scenen er det gamle dyder som tramp i gulvet og opildnende tilråb, der er i centrum, og energien og spilleglæden er stor hos de fire unge herrer.
De smukke melodier er hovedsagligt komponeret af Hal P. Murray der også spiller en af violinerne. Andreas Tophøj, kendt fra bl.a. orkesteret Zar, Trio THG mv spiller den anden violin og Sigurd Hockings på guitar bl.a. kendt fra Trio THG samt hans samarbejde med den fremadstormende violinist Ditte Fromseier. Kvartettens fjerde medlem er Anders Ringgård, der udover harmonika også som ekstra krydderi lader trækbasunen klinge på udvalgte melodier.
Basco play their first set -clap clap clap- Hal: Thank you very much! That was a schottish and a reel that I wrote just before I went to study fiddle over in Newcastle in England, called . It’s because I, well I, uh, sent a recording of the tune to the University as part of my application, but felt it was a bit like “sending coals to Newcastle”, hence the title. Sigurd: Yeah – and they let you in anyway... Hal: Yeah. Amazingly enough – I think I got away with it… Now we’d like to play two tunes called
Tracks:
Coals to Newcastle
Crow in the Walnut Tree/ New pair of Boots
The Cats Menuet
Princess of Scandinavia
Trombone Scottish
Kamerika
Flensborg Harbour
Postcard
Hadrian’s Waltz
Magpie Jig/The Camel Polka
Blackberry Blossom
The Mermaid
Sigurd Hockings - Guitar,
Hal Parfitt-Murray - fiddle
Anders Ringgaard - Box and Trombone
Andreas Tophøj - fiddle
Recorded at Odense Central Library by Branko Djordjevic
Mixed at Addmusic Studios by Jakob Eilsø
Mastered at Master Touch by Lehnart Kjeldsen
Cover design by Nina Støttrup Larsen
Info and Booking:
Anders Ringgaard
ringgaard@postkasse.net
+45 24291492 www.myspace.com/bascoband
Denne cd er udgivet med støtte
fra KODAs Nationale Midler
Basco first met at the Carl Nielsen academy of music in Odense, Denmark. They played together for the first time at the 2003 Tonder festival, and decided to keep seeing each other... After a while they decided to get a bit serious about life, and become a band properly, but this was temporarily hampered by the fact that Hal went to Newcastle, England, to study composition for a year. Andreas is currently in the US studying at Berkely, but now they've Ditte Fromseier Mortensen - fiddle mistress - sitting in until he comes home. Basco plays chiefly new compositions. Most of these are by fiddler Hal Parfitt-Murray, but the others are also active composers. Of the four tracks on this site, the first three were composed by Hal, and "Kamerika" was composed by Sigurd Hockings and Danish fiddle-whizz, Henrik Jansberg. Hope you like the tunes, and see you at a gig sometime soon!
2010 releases
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2009 releases
Over Sundet
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Ønskeegen
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