Wolgemut Q & A

There was a breakdancing move that looks a lot like this. I think you'll know which one I mean, if you've seen both - hope so, because I can't describe it...

lol, thanks for the comment Fireblast, you wrote...


"It might prove difficult to play your instruments while at the same time bouncing a ball from your nose and clapping your flippers together"

Ahh but is that how medieval seals danced? Oddly enough I've worked out an arrangement for a song that currently has no title, and I think it is the perfect candidate for the seal dance. Now I need to learn how to pronounce it in Finnish! :)

Servus!

/Micha
www.wolgemut.net

"So what do you all like to listen to when you're not listening to (heaven forbid) Wolgemut?"

Actually, I'm a big jazz fan, myself! Mainly 50's and early 60's: Trane, Miles, Monk, Art Blakey, etc. I very much prefer instrumental jazz, but Satchmo's one of the few exceptions I'll make. How can you not love him?

Though I've been listening to a great deal of early music and middle eastern music lately, my cd collection numbers in the hundreds (probably thousands, but there's no way I'm actually counting them all!) and covers areas from British folk-rock to goth to blues to "alternative rock" (in the 80's/early 90's sense of the word, not the modern version where "alternative" equals "generic mainstream").

While we're talking music (and since this IS the Q&A thread), I think I asked you years ago about this, but I'll do it again just in case. Have you ever heard an album called "The Bones of All Men"? It's an amazing album of Elizabethan keyboard music done on a combination of medieval woodwinds/keyboards and modern rock instruments (Richard Thompson with the Fairport Convention rhythm section). If you decide to look for it, it's credited to Philip Pickett (shawms, crumhorns, etc) and Richard Thompson (guitar). Given how great the album is and what I know of you, I can say with relative certainty that you would love it!

One more question: did Stefan's Pannoptico "Project" ever developed into something more? I remember when I bought the EP you said he was looking at making a full length album in a similar vein. I've always loved that thing and wanted more! Also, while looking for answers, I found a couple of Cultus Ferox sites, but they're all in Deutsch! The pictures, though, remind me a bit of Corvus Corax. What can you tell me about them?

Hmmm, I'm not sure how much I should say...

Q: "I love them all, but surely, you would have your own special approach...right? Throw us a bone?"
A: The idea for a "Wolgemut Plugged" CD has been around about as long as Wolgemut (almost 10 years) and yes, I do think that I would have a very different approach. I have always been interested in exploring the different sounds and capabilities of the instruments that we use in new and different ways. I am personally a fan of all sorts of "modern" music; Jazz, Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Avant-Garde, modern Folk as well as many genres of World Music. I think it would be a great challenge to explore a variety of styles and genres in one project and yet the thread that would hold it together would be the use of the original instruments and tunes.

The opposite of this project would be to explore modern genres on the original instruments using period techniques; I would love to do some cover versions of the Beatles using our instruments. :-)

So is that a big enough bone?

Back to work...

/Micha