I’m really enjoying gigging with acoustic melodicists Delicatessen with a rush of gigs as we warm up to summer…and bookings already coming in for the autumn. Delicatessen have a line=up of up to eight people: accordion/vocals, violin, violin/vocals, percussion, percussion/vocals, oud/vocals/percussion, guitar and bass. We play songs from Greece and Turkey and the Balkan regions. […]
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The culmination of a week of learning their set by ear was depping at a lovely gig with Balkan/Greek/Turkish/Klezmer/Rai/Rebetiko band Delicatessen in Ladbroke Grove. Here’s a short video featuring music and film from several song – capturing some great audience participation! http://www.facebook.com/deli.music http://www.delicatessenmusic.com/ Youtube Video Playlist of Delicatessen at Ladbroke Grove http://www.youtube.com/p/7B2BAAAF0649BF8E?hl=en_GB&fs=1
Well, this is fun and unexpected. I got a call from one of my former bandmates in Luna Kalamata. The band Delicatessen making themselves a reputation on the London world music scene and their bassplayer was taking a hiatus. I was asked if I could step in. This resulted in a week learning 18 songs […]
Bass. Music is basically oom-pah or oom-pah-pah and we bassists are responsible for the oom. Truth is in most styles of music it’s pretty similar. We play roots and roots and fifths in so many types of music. It took me ages to realise that the skill in playing bass often came from playing the […]
Phil Wain 