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On the 7th day, God created jazz…
…And our new house band, The St-Joachim Quartet! The band members goes as follow:
- Gabriel Desjardins: Rhodes
- Pierre-Olivier Gagnon: Bass
- Maxime Simard: Drums
- Guillaume Tremblay: Alto Sax
This first song is a modern classic, Maiden Voyage from Herbie Hancock… Great song to demonstrate the various dynamics in the playing. The second is a composition by Gabriel Desjardins, cleverly named after the studio’s mascot, Saint-Barthelemy. Since the band was first formed for corporate event purposes, it is the band’s first composition. It will also be the anthem of our soon to be bourn underground venue space dedicated to arts and culture, Le Saint-Barthelemy. Stay tuned for more info about it.
Maiden Voyage (Herbie Hancock, 1965)
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Saint-Barthelemy (Gabriel Desjardins, 2010)
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- Recording occurred Sunday, July 11th, 2010.
This is an other of our ‘just for fun’ recording session, mixed live, without effects nor extensive processing. For the gear heads, the set up is pretty much the same as it was for the Regroove recording, about a year ago, in the same conditions. A combination of a Royer SF-12 for overhead, Sennheiser MD-409 under the snare and our beloved cardboard speaker on the kick. We are very proud to have used our very own, recently tuned up 4 pieces 1964 Meazzi Hollywood Drum Kit. Considering the limited amount of info and visual of it, we’ve decide to write an extensive article on that hard to find percussion legend of jazz recording. It will be published soon.
The rest of the microphone choice goes like this: AKG D-25 on the Eighty Eight keys Rhodes, Sennheiser MD-409 on Alto Saxophone and a Cad Trion 7000 as a Room Microphone. (believe it or not, we had not enough room in the basic microphone set up. It really made the recording live!) You can see pretty much everything on the pictures. Speaking of which, you have to understand that the melting of the glaciers and the fartinghouse effect has provided us with 5 extra celsius degrees… So as good as the church is to keep its coolness, (all meanings included) it still was pretty hot in here. That explains the lack of fabric on everyone’s chest… Please excuse the hair.
And no… On the 7th day, God did not have a break… Breaks are for sissies…