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We’re back with a fantastic voyage to Africa with our tour guides, drummer Alexander Korostinsky and saxophonist Jammal Tarkington who played live and represented the BLC with the band Spitting Image for an international music festival featuring legendary OG punks DEATH. It’s a great trip with great music by WE’RE LOUD FEST performers Spitting Image, Chovu, Afro Simba and Twenty One Children.
Adventure, music, connection and magic are a central theme of podcast.
We absolutely loved having the guys on and loved archiving a little bit of history.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
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Question: What do Dainsley, The John Whites, The Sextones, What It Do, and What It Do Archive have in common? Answer: Alexander KorostinskyThis weeks guest (and Nicks neighbor) has been playing, recording, and exploring music and engineering since his youth.
We get a sample from each of the aforementioned bands Alexander is in, and an exclusive preview of his new Solo 45 dropping in June. Dogwater Dick was loving every minute of the show analyzing each tracks recording technique, much to Alexander’s delight. So the episode is a bit audio geeky but not so bad that us muggles couldn’t comprehend. In fact it’s a real insight into recording to tape, various sizes, panning techniques to give a track a dated sound, etc. Alexander’s appreciation for production, be it low fi or state of the art, or a combination of both, is inspiring. It’ll make you hear records, especially old ones in a bigger more specific way. It’s easy to see why he seems almost addicted to it all… the process.
Alexander has made music his profession playing and producing right from his home. Soul, indie rock, jazz, funk and even a Spaghetti western soundtrack concept album (The Black Stone Affair, by What It Do Archive) are all comfortably in his wheelhouse. We were blown away by Alexander’s tracks as well as his stories of writing, recording, hustling, getting on labels, and how who you know and persistence are key to success. It’s a great episode with a musical wizard from right here in our own backyard. Press play to see what we mean.
Thanks for listening.
