Steve Ball

the Breathing Field (live)

This recording goes back a few years, to 1995 to be specific.  “the Breathing Field” originally appeared on Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarist’s ‘Get Crafty’ that was recorded in Tony Arnold’s studio in Cranborne, England in 1988.   And it was a key part of the LCG live repertoire from 1988-1990.

It also became a useful part of Los Gauchos Alemanes repertoire when I was an official member from approximately 1994-1997.

The music for this video was recorded live by Los Gauchos Alemanes during our 1995 tour of Argentina.  And it appears as track 7 of Los Gauchos Alemanes CD “Little Beast” which is now unfortunately out of print.  

The recording includes the hot Crafty ensemble of Hernán Nuñez, Fernando Kabusacki, Martin Schwutke, Maria Gabriela Epumer, and Paul Richards.  Alessandro Bruno was also on this tour for a few shows, but not for this particular recording. 

I was inspired to put this together after a) receiving a mail from Herni looking for some old Crafty recordings from the famous “1989 LCG Bogo Tour” of the US, and b) this song came up in shuffle mode on my Zune later that same day. 

Within about fifteen seconds of hearing the song, I could literally see exactly what this video could (and did) become.  End to end, it took ~90 minutes to both produce and upload this video from the Opal Creative Space.

For me, this music brings many vivid memories to life, like ghosts coming into visit the present moment.

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Waiting Man (live)

From a recent SBRS rehearsal.

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Re-Amplified

Recent Recap: it feels like fall in Seattle.  Morning walks with Sofie now generally require a hat and leg-warmers.

SBRS played our third annual private Microsoft party yesterday on what appears to be the last beautiful summer weekend in Seattle this year.  

SketchBox tracks and song sequence are now complete and the artwork is underway. 

New sound designs are also now well underway for, among other upcoming releases: Powerpoint, Configuration Manager, and Windows.

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Fear of Gear: of course, as expected, some fatal gear flaw has kicked in during the final stages of mixing.  This time, the 1394 port on my Digi 002R recently died (a known and dreaded issue) but fortunately, my friend Kevin Scientist was available at old reliable Condor Electronics to get me fixed and mixing again quickly. 

Kevin is also an Electric Gauchos fan, and he built me a small custom powerhouse amplifier ( as a gift !!) about a year ago.  I recorded some of the nasty electric solos on the upcoming SketchBox through this amp: 

 

The "Ugly Enough" amp, hand built by famous Seattle amp technician, Kevin Hilbiber.

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Summer in Seattle

 
Thousands of photos, so little time.

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