Send Slo-Mo to India
Here's the coolest Kickstarter campaign I've heard about in a good long while. Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner, the lap steel guitar whiz and ace sideman who once led the Philadelphia acoustic pop band The Low Road, has been studying Hindustani classical music on the side, while also fronting Slo-Mo, his hip-hop roots groove band featuring rapper Mic Wrecka. In December, he hopes to go to Kolkata to further study the 22 string Indian slide guitar known as the chaturangui, with Debashish Bhattacharya, the acknowledged master of the instrument.
Here's the coolest Kickstarter campaign I've heard about in a good long while. Mike "Slo-Mo" Brenner, the lap steel guitar whiz and ace sideman who once led the Philadelphia acoustic pop band The Low Road, has been studying Hindustani classical music on the side, while also fronting Slo-Mo, his hip-hop roots groove band featuring rapper Mic Wrecka. In December, he hopes to go to Kolkata to further study the 22 string Indian slide guitar known as the chaturangui, with Debashish Bhattacharya, the acknowledged master of the instrument.
To get there, Brenner needs $5000 - which will pay for three weeks of study and recording with Indian musicians, with the tracks then brought back to Philadelphia and completed with Indian and American players. The aim is to create a recording that, in Brenner's words, is "a lush Indian steel guitar trance groove and East-West curried collaboration." So far, Slo-Mo has raised $2701 of his $5000 goal, and he only has until Sept. 11 to make it, or the project will not be funded. Give him $1000 and he'll give you back a guitar lesson, a T-shirt, play a concert at your house and serve up a catered Indian buffet dinner for ten. No, really.
Watch the video below. More info on the project and the Kickstarter campaign here.
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