Take musicians, stir them into a jazz funk base, simmer and you’ve got a SONIC STEW! Patrick Butler's Stew philosophy of building up from a base of drums, per- cussion and electric bass, the crew never really knows what the outcome will be.
All the stalwarts are back - blending their talents together, using the unprocessed, natural sounds of their instruments. The music morphs from funk into jazz into...
Sonic Stew 2
M.M.O.S. Music Patrick Butler - Guitar
Andre Allen - Drums
Gilberto Torres - Flute
Gabriel "Slam" Nobles - Vibraphone Josh Harris - Soprano Sax
Julio Muniz - Congas, Percussion Mel Wiggins - Congas, Percussion Rob Cameron - Electric Bass Austin Nicholsen - Bowed Bass Gary Bogdanoff - Engineer
All tracks composed by Patrick Butler Produced by Gary Bogdanoff & Patrick ButlerExecutive Producer - Terence Butler Artwork and Layout - Joe Dean
1) A Natural Stew (02:03) A short introductory piece where Gil Torres recreates the sounds of a morning dawn.
2) E Flat Stew (04:41) A low, slow funk that morphs into a swing groove. Josh Harris's solo at the end is gone man... real gone.
3) B Major Stew (05:52) A legato introduction of a chord structure that repeats through- out the piece is followed by Andre "Thunderfoot" Allen’s driving beat. The chords seem to lead us upward until we hit an upper harmonic realm, then stay for a mo- ment and drop back to begin the ascent again.
4) G Enigmatic Stew (05:41) This starts with a medium slow swing on the Enigmatic Scale. It moves from swing to funk baffling the listener with sound wave activating flute sound effects and soprano sax solos.
5) A Major Seventh Stew (05:47) A stirring theme over atmospheric chords burst into a riff from the Old Country. It slides into a swing beat and a guitar solo, followed by soprano sax solo. The tune ends with the atmospheric theme.
6) E Seventh Stew (05:35) A fast, funk rock beat followed by some epic chords inter- laced with Afro Cuban sections appearing out of nowhere. To the engineer’s chagrin everybody soloed on top of everybody else, but even he agreed later that it sounds good.
7) G Major Seventh Stew (04:00) A light, airy vehicle for bowed bass soliloquies and Gil
Torres flute solos. Butler gets some tasty Sterling Holliman style licks in throughout.
8) A Minor Stew (02:44) A massive drone is set up by the bowed bass with a mournful call from the mists. "Butler doesn't want to admit how much old Celtic music he pil- fers," says the engineer.
9) All Keys Stew (02:32) As with colors, the presence of every color gives us black. The presence of every key gives us some discordance. Maybe that's why most of the Sonic Stew musicians decided take a jaunt to the local burrito joint and leave the true sound warriors to cut this track.
10) G Flat Stew (02:33) This song is the beginning of the minimalistic neo-classical revival, inspired by our vibraphonist Slam. The original chart had twice as many chords, but Slam vetoed more than half resulting in further minimalization.
11) E Seventh Stew - Extended Mix (10:15) This funk rocker extends into a spacey vehicle for bowed whale sounds and flute over alternating funk drums and 6/8 Afro Cuban percussion sections.
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