{"id":202,"date":"2011-11-07T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T01:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2011-11-07T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T01:23:53","slug":"phat-hed-aka-basie-obrain-aka-the-right-hand-of-noma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/phat-hed-aka-basie-obrain-aka-the-right-hand-of-noma\/","title":{"rendered":"Phat Hed (AKA: Basie O&#8217;Brain AKA: The Right Hand of NOMA*)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"floatright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" title=\"\" src=\"\/images\/tom_walsh_right.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"274\" alt=\"Tom Walsh - Trombone\"\/><br \/><span class=\"fineprint\">Tom Walsh<br \/>Phat Hed leader and producer<\/span><\/span> Post-digital,  groove-approved, flesh&#8217;n&#8217;bone &#8230; jazz<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phat Hed<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>hits you in &#8220;de base o&#8217; yo&#8217; brain&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>is a trio: stand-up bass, drums\/percussion, &#038; trombone\/sampler.<\/li>\n<li>is a reply to &#8220;What is Jazz?&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>has NOMA DNA.<\/li>\n<li>plays space (NOMA moves space).<\/li>\n<li>removes the scales&#8230; Rinses, then marinates.<\/li>\n<li>works like LEGO; building&#8230; <\/li>\n<li>works on the codes.<\/li>\n<li>missed church, but found something.<\/li>\n<li>is &#8220;fried mushrooms&#8221; in Thai.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Formed in 2000, Phat Hed Trio has shared the stage with Montr\u00e9al&#8217;s NOMA &#038; New York&#8217;s <em>Sex Mob<\/em>. Trombonists Wolter Wierbos (Amsterdam) &#038; NYC&#8217;s Steve Swell joined Walsh &#038; Co. adventures in 2002 concert productions for Traqu\u2019enart &#038; the Montr\u00e9al Jazz Fest..<\/p>\n<p>Summer 2004 sees Phat Hed premiering its self-titled CD, recorded live in 2003 during the heat of festival performances in Canada and &#8230; Slovakia!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"floatleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" title=\"\" src=\"\/images\/steve_swell_right.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"274\" alt=\"Steve Swell - Trombone\"\/><span class=\"fineprint\"><br \/>Steve Swell<br \/>Special guest trombonist<\/span><\/span> The disc presents a remarkably magical Montr\u00e9al  &#8220;Jazz Contemporain&#8221; Festival concert featuring the &#8216;twin-bone&#8217; treat of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwalsh.ca\/\">Tom Walsh<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~sdswell\/\">Steve Swell<\/a> with bass\/drum intelligence supplied by Miles Perkin &#038; Thom Gossage. Also included: Walsh&#8217;s latest foray into &#8216;DNA mutation&#8217; &#8211; a &#8216;free radical&#8217; Hungarian version of Phat Hed! Magyar\/Gypsy star virtuosos Bal\u00e1zs Elem\u00e9r on drums and Szandai M\u00e1ty\u00e1s on contrabass join Walsh in a surprisingly spicy concert in Nitra, Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh originally formed Phat Hed to work &#8216;in vitro&#8217; with modular portions of the larger NOMA&#8217;s more demanding compositions; i.e. breaking the double trio into electric &#038; acoustic trios to find the heart of each song.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s tenor\/bass colors have since evolved into a unique<br \/>\nvoice, featuring driving grooves, extended techniques and, above all, a sense of humor and irreverence. There is no icon, no style of music too rare to be brought into the recipe book.<\/p>\n<p>Phat Hed has unearthed roots&#8230; and spores; Phat Hed now aims from the vein.  <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>*<\/strong>NOMA is a double trio septet:<br \/>\n   electric bass, guitar\/fx &#038; drums (left)<\/p>\n<p>   acoustic bass, prepared guitar &#038; drums (right),<br \/> <br \/>\n   trombone\/sampler (center).\n<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom WalshPhat Hed leader and producer Post-digital, groove-approved, flesh&#8217;n&#8217;bone &#8230; jazz Phat Hed: hits you in &#8220;de base o&#8217; yo&#8217; brain&#8221;. is a trio: stand-up bass, drums\/percussion, &#038; trombone\/sampler. is a reply to &#8220;What is Jazz?&#8221;. has NOMA DNA. plays space (NOMA moves space). removes the scales&#8230; Rinses, then marinates. works like LEGO; building&#8230; works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ombu.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}