Sunday Music Muse Day - Bill Bruford, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

This Sunday Music Muse Day finds me presenting an similiar artist, and a totally unknown group. First up is Bill Bruford Earthworks. This is the drummer's post Yes, King Crimson, and solo outing group minus a gutiar player. This 2 CD set is taken from live recording dates from 2001.  It's nice collection of driving ensemble playing and thoughtful  group interaction.  Worth a listen.

      

My second selection is totally new to me, and honestly I picked it purely on the cover art.  It reminds me of the Transformer designs.  The Hypontic Brass Ensemble Bu;;etproof Brass.  Just by instrumentation a brass band is not a favorite of mine. First impression is, it's not bad, but the overall feel is of a hip hop-space  marching band for a college. That maybe from the spoken vocal  by Sun-Ra on one cut. I think they need more variety in the beat.

This weekend has been rainy, and stormy weather with high winds. We were spared, but many experienced fallen tree, unfortunately, including a neighbor one block away.  We hope the worst is over., for the rest of the the Memorial Day holiday. 

Coming of T-Metal Cat

HELP!!! I can't decide how to finish this. Options: Leave it B&W, and gray-tones, ot full color? It for a upcoming charity auction. I'm so out of practice ,I'm second-guessing myself at every turn. I was resistant to do Thundercat drawing at all. Especially after the heavy-weight comic artists contributing to cause. I did the T-Metal Cat figure a year or so, back , hintiing at the T-Cats without it being a Thndercats drawing. Now with the Thundercats/Silverhawks crossover, I added the Thundercat type style and added "ghost" figures of Charr, the blacksmith, and Two-Time, the robot, both villians I designed for the show, to hint at future story, where they treturn and team up to create robot to battle the T'Cats/SilverHawks team. Maybe I'm just overthinking it. Any thought?

                          

 Here's the earlier sketch.

I’m leaning toward submitting the original B&W line, than experimenting with a scanned image in digital painting app at my leisure. I’m getting too old to stress out about this stuff. 

Reviewing RICE -Rochester Independent Comic Expo

For Wednesdays, Hump Day: Odds & Ends. Reviewing my RICE appearance, There's nothing like being a week late and, a dollar short. Here's my finished Warrior in the MIst comic and the two posters, The "Helgon" and "Who Goes There?" I wanted for RICE. At least one patron want to buy the comic, but I only had a sample. They look good. I'll be doing a full recap of my first time at RICE. I'll plan to offer all my art on my Ebay shop, soon. (Note my new embossed stamp I'll be using for my art)

Sunday Music Muse Day - Orbital Lounge Volume #

 I'm trying to get back on track with my Sunday Music Muse Day post, after the passing my mother-in-law, and all the prepping for the RiCE comic expo (I"ll do a separate post on that) Ok, I admit, it's AI art, but as a space art nut, I'm digging it. This looks cool and the space lounge is good backround music to draw to. I tolerate this better than any smooth jazz. Enjoy.

Preview for the RICE (Rochester Independant Comic Expo)

Here's my preview of my set up for the RICE event. I may not have my comic delivered by start of the Expo, but I'll have a sample issue to show. Hope to see you there.

Thundercats Toy Book - Hall of the Omens - Thunder-Verse

My dayplanner prompt today is "Thundercats Tuesday" so recieving this Hall of Omens Thunder-Verse book by Sean Buddha McKeone is perfect timing. It's massive and impressive. being 3x the length of his first T'cats, SilverHawks & TigerSharks collectors guide. I'm totally overwhelmed by how much merchandise these three shows generated. I'm honored and humble he asked me to be interviewed for this edition. Plus, there's a small cross-over with The Galaxy Rangers, animated series I worked on before joining Rankin/Bass, showing up in Thundercats comics published in the Marvel UK books. The book has a spread of the T'Cats home computer games, which I picked in Paris, France, just by accident. One final fun feature of the book is the day-glow title type. All-in-all, well done, Buddha, well done, indeed. Again, thanks for the book. Thundercats...HOOOOO!!!

More info on the book available at this link: https://thundercatstoyguide.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawRNzKVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFTT21tT1FDTkJaeTgzR0tCc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvUbockWblXx8VT7iNcTK9QvEp7JBA9Nxso_pj8DKfSVckbbndSGIDYxVF0M_aem_kZvIgAhq1XBPSAjzY-H5ow

Sunday Music Muse Day - Colin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nana Vasconcelos, Paco De Lucia

Today's Sunday Music Muse Day finds us in a pause after a stretch of  bad weather, mainly heavy rains and high winds. Today is overcast and breezy, but no rain, so far.  My two CD picks show my eclectic side with a sampling of world music.  First up, Paco De Lucia, Cositas Buenas, Paco was a Spanish virtouos flamenco guitarist, composer and record producer, I became aware with his recordings with John McLaughlin,  Al DiMeola, and Larry Coryell.  Over the years, I've continued to pick up several of his  albums and CDs.  On this CD the vocals are in Spanish, which I don't speak, but the passion is infectious and exciting as the playing. Personally, I'm envious of anyone who can speak and understand several lauguages.  So much of the world opens up to if you can. So, I must settle for listening to the musics of world. The music of Paco De Lucia is a great start.

Next, in my world music theme, is Colin Walcoott, Don Cherry, and Nana Vasconcelos, Codona 3. I came to know this group through each member's association with othe musican I followed on the ECM label.  Tabla player Colin Walcott played with Ralph Towner in the group Oregon, and earlier in the Paul Winter's Consort.   Don Cherry, trumpet player, proformed with jazz legend Ornette Coleman in th e1950s before forming Codona. labeled a "world jazz" for ECM in the 1970s, and percussionist Nana Vasconcelos from his work with variuos ECM artist, especially Egberto Gismonti, Brazilian guitarist, composer and pianist. Codona 3 is very subdue meditive recording in a good.

So, slowly signs of spring are showing with new buds appearing on plants around the house. So maybe I should complain about the rain.  "For spring will come again. New smiles will greet me then, after a gentle rain".  (Song lyric of mine)  Take care.