Post #372310 by tikiyaki on Mon, Apr 7, 2008 8:38 PM

On 2008-04-03 09:49, Kahuna Kent wrote:
I'm really anxious to see Tikiyaki live - and I fully expect the "sound" of the group to be different (more "organic" and "Live") than the music on the CD.

What's the point of "recreating" a studio sound in a live venue?

In the studio you can go back and tweak and layer stuff and finesse everything.

Live performance is "in the moment" and no 2 live performances are exactly the same -

It's 2 different things - and I like apples AND oranges!

We try really hard to recreate the sound, at the same time we take it in different directions, extend the arrangements, take solos, and embellish on what's already there.

That being said, to really recreate the CD would require alot more people, especially in the percussion dept...but our percussion guy is a trip because he covers like 3 parts at one time...playing the shaker and woodblocks with his feet, and other stuff with his hands...It's pretty amazing.....

We do the best we can with the other stuff.

We dont play to Loops or tracks but we do use one of the computer programs I used on the CD for the keyboard sounds to make accessing the sounds easier, and to use the same sounds as we have on the CD. That, and for the jungle sounds.

It's been a hell of a challenge just playing the stuff, due to it's many layers, and also due to the fact that I've been a rock player my whole life, and playing low volume with these different instrumentations and dynamics is ALOT different that playing a les paul through a Marshall in a 4 piece rock band.

So, the live experience will be different than the CD, but in the same ballpark.

[ Edited by: tikiyaki 2008-04-07 20:40 ]