Shrimp & Karaoke is the first album release by the Belgian duo TheThirdGuy, featuring Primož Sukič on guitar and Ruben Orio on percussion.
Their musical, and artistic research is based on exploring musical territories that blur boundaries between improvisation, programmed computer algorithms, and composition. The ensemble also focuses on collaborating with other artists, among whom each of them bring in new personalities and aesthetics, that reshape, and sometimes even redefine and question the identity of a duo;
In their first official release The Third Guy presents two larger works blending together fresh, deep, nonconformist and noisy sounds blended with electronics, produced by toothbrush motors, and confronting improvisational and composed musical textures.
Shrimp & Karaoke shows the two faces of musical composition. On one hand the work by the German composer Michael Maierhof entitled Splitting 56.3 composed for the Belgian duo in 2018, a piece in which motors and mics play the main role in the sound production. On the other, The Third Guy presents their particular way of seeing the musical creation in Why Is Free Improv Boring. The six short pieces were initially conceived as improvisational strategies, each one with a different musical code on how the performers react on each other's playing. The six miniatures with a hit single length format were recorded live at Cankarjev Dom in Ljubljana on March 2018 , featuring Slovene composer Matej Bonin as the third element, performing live with the group on stage on DADA machines and electronics. The multitrack recordings were then taken into a studio environment, where the same recorded material was used as a compositional tool in postproduction, taking advantage of the possibilities of tweaking the recorded material, and understanding the studio as an instrument mostly through processes such as side chain gating, stereo imaging, and artificial reverberation.
Since their beginning the duo has so far been collaborating with guest as Tom Pauwels, Caroline Profanter, Žiga Murko, Tom Jackson, Matej Bonin, Erik Božič, Hanna Kölbel, Adam Rosenblatt, FRederik Sakham Jalving Lomborg, and they've also performed around Europe and United States at University of Southampton (UK), Champ d’action (Belgium), SPOR Festival in Aarhus (Denmark), Cankarjev dom Ljubljana (Slovenia), iMAL Brussels (Belgium), Porgy and Bess Vienna (Austria), Unerhörte Musik Berlin (Germany), Spectrum NYC (USA), Redroom Baltimore (USA), ONO Bern (Switzerland).
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released November 30, 2019
Side A
Why is free improv boring (2018) - The Third Guy
1) We Play You Play 03: 04
2) You Say I Play 03: 31
3) I Play He Plays 02: 24
4) We Play He Plays 02: 45
5) I Say I Play 02: 36
6) We All Play 03: 45
Side B
Michael Maierhof (performed by The Third Guy)
7) Splitting 56. 3 (2017) for electric guitar and percussion 14: 29
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Side A recorded live at Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana on the 3rd of March 2018, recording engineer Iztok Zupan
Side B recorded at Villa Guillaume Studios, and Fly Studios Brussels June 2018, recording engineers Alec Ilyine, and Primož Sukič
Performed by Ruben Orio_Percussion, Primož Sukič_Guitars, Matej Bonin_DADA machines & electronics (tracks 1-6), Jacob Storer_voice (track 3).
Produced by The Third Guy
Mixed by Primož Sukič at Villa Guillaume Studios Brussels, June 2018
Mastered by David Darlington at Bass Hit Studios, NYC, Manhattan, November 2018.
The Third Guy is a duo based in Brussels, Belgium, featuring Primož Sukič on guitar and Ruben Orio on
percussion.
Their musical, and artistic research based on composing works that explore, and blur boundaries between improvisation, programmed computer algorithms, and composition....more
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