Cookie & The Cupcakes Legends Of Swamp Pop CD

As MAR DUREZA ...

The Mallet Band has existed in one form or another in San Francisco since the 90's. We played street gigs, park concerts and other events. We all are full timers in the music freelance world, we play other instruments as well, but mallet instruments are where we live. Quite often we have to create our own playing opportunities. I rallied the troops before with our last recording, 'Phone Call From Barcelona', and that project was a lovely collaborative scene. We used only acoustic instruments, except the bass marimba part, which was driven by Silicon Mallet and MalletKat mallet synthesizers. That worked out fine, it was very easy to capture for recording purposes, but it wasn't wood! So for this project, I decided to go 'au naturel'! And, of course, the band had no issues with that! I contacted John Salazar, a very fine marimba maker in Arcata California, and told him I needed a gorgeous instrument that could produce and project some heavy bottom to drive this band. He accepted the task, and built the fine instrument you see and hear on this recording. I especially appreciated John's resonator design. Bass marimba resonator tubes typically are shaped like a 'J' in order to have the length to support the frequency of the bar. For his design, John chose to double the resonator in on itself, ...