(((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") and for me to release the tension and pain of
trying to help Don Kauli'a with his career. Don's third
album with MANAWA Records was to be his flagship named
Wailau. It was, to me, his breakthrough CD to showcase
his songwriting talent and skills as a performer and
singer to the rest of the world, not just Maui. Instead I
had to record my slack key album to show him what
integrity is. It's not about abandoning his friend that
did everything in his power to further his career, it's
all about writing and performing what's in your gut, what
you believe in; not compromising yourself for the
almighty dollar. (this note is for you, my friend, a
thousand dollars against three years of friendship and
ten times that much?) Sorry folks, this is way too
personal, but that's the music biz. Anyway, "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). Most
of the songs are first takes, especially "Feels Like
Rain" which I'd never played before but I got the
lyrics off the web. At the end of recording "Baby
Grace" I just started playing this riff and the
slack key version of "Can't Find My way Home"
made itself. On the second night I redid "The Last
Resort" (Yet another song I'd never played before
but that incredible song about the ravage of Maui by
Glenn Frye and Don Henley had to be part of this album).
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 with James K. Ward (as the voices of Winnie the Pooh) and recording the voiceover on 5 national Saturn commercials with Friends's Paul Rudd ("People first..."),also Mauna Loa radio ad with the voice of BRADO, one of our local treasures.
Chance Gardner
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