Electric cello/electric drumkit duo with sampling and drummer also
playing keyboard. There were moments I enjoyed but overall it's not my
thing. It got repetitive and a little boring at times. I really liked
what the cello was doing when he was playing and I liked some of his
sampling. It would have been a whole other thing if the drums weren't
hooked up to an amp - that just didn't do it for me. It can take me
longer to warm up to some new styles of music. There was a time that I
couldn't tolerate any hiphop and now there's a place for it for me. I'm
thinking this concept might be one of those things.
ABOUT LIVE FOOTAGE
In 2008 a humble basement apartment in Brooklyn became the laboratory
for the Brooklyn-based electroacoustic duo, Live Footage. Mike Thies
and Topu Lyo first met at a Halloween party, unaware that years later
they would be described as some of the finest “surrealist soundtrack
composers” in the making by scoring someof the most eclectic
contemporary pieces on air, in dance and in tune composing their own
music. Conceived through the art of improvisation,Lyo plays cello,
incorporating the use of live loops and a handful ofelectronics with no
pre-recorded samples of any kind. Thies plays drums and keyboards,
often simultaneously. Live Footage’s formula is unique songs are
structured in such a way that enables them to actually build loops
without disaster, all while keeping the music’s integrity and
allowingample room for improvisation even when covering the likes of
Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and Squarepusher. It is Live Footage’s coherent
complexity that inherently wow’s new earsaway. Plain and simple, they
are “cinematic, experimental, yet still catchy and melodic.”Their first
& Second full-length independent albums are already available on
itunes, their Jay Dee EP is currently live on Orisue’s Website. In the
meantime, Live Footage will be touring America, Canada, Korea, and
Europe while fulfilling their weekly residency at Apotheke in NYC.
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