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The PHONOGARDE

"One qwirky folker"

About Me

Rooted in North American Folk & Blues Music...While greatly affected by the hard-hitting Detroit aesthetic... Bound through improvisation in nature... Much praise for the antics of the dedicated Street Singer... Some Woody Guthrie flare for enunciation... Folkways Records perspective of purity in production... All seemingly united over the hopeful signal... Of an eclectic public radio play list ideal.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/11/2006
Band Website: phonogarde.com
Band Members: {Christian Masotti}... on the mic, foot stomping, singing, acoustic and electrical guitars, bottleneck slide, lap slide & steel, harmonica.......{Ryan Masotti}... drums, percussion, singing & dancing...{Max Marshall}... upright and electrical bass
Influences:

Heat the Kettle with your Fancy Jacket (folkurecords 2006)

Up for Seconds (folkurecords 2005)

The Kitchen Session (folkurecords 2004)
Sounds Like: The radio of an electic public...and sometimes...Jeff Buckley...Ben Harper...Buck65
Record Label: folkurecords
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ottawa Folk Festival

It's been some weekend...I was invited to play 3 workshops at the Ottawa Folk Festival (Thanks Chris and Ken)...the first put me on stage with Buffy Sainte-Marie and Kaie Kellough...I made the unfortu...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:44:00 PST

Buck65 Show

You gotta be kiddin' me&now I get to open for another musical hero, Buck65&oh, gosh!Plus, I have the chance to study how the orally transmitted North American folksong tradition was effected by the de...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:25:00 PST

Kelly Joe Phelps

Holy! On Friday I went to see one of my musical heroes Kelly Joe Phelps!It was fantastic&his spirit was through the roof&he was chatting up the crowd, making jokes, laughing, dancing&it made me forge...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:24:00 PST

No Tape?

I've found myself sleeping in a new city lately...but I do have my guitars and a batch of songs I've been trying to finish.Also, I've got a show in April at this wonderful place, the TRANZAC in Toront...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:08:00 PST

Justin Nozuka and Mark Wilson

My lips got really chapped in the Ottawa cold...opened for Mark Wilson and Justin Nozuka at Algonquin College.The three of us played a showcase together back in November...so it was fun to hear each o...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:06:00 PST

Never Ending White Lights

To the good people of Sheridan College in Oakville...I truly enjoyed our time together.Had the chance to open for The Never Ending White Lights...real nice bunch 'o guys...roughly 200 people there plu...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:05:00 PST

Craig Cardiff Tour!

Wow! The Craig Cardiff Tour was fantastic...There was fast driving, sidewalk parking,dead cold car start bolting for singing, sodance this all over manual transmission, with "one stage wear I gotta ma...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:59:00 PST

Liner NOTES for the New EP

{Heat the Kettle with your Fancy Jacket} 6 SONG EP   Producer's Notes   This collection of sound recordings is the combination of two very different sessions, The Fancy Jacket 3 and Heat the...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:22:00 PST

Thoughts on the Showcase&

It was a long day, not much sleep the night before, left early for the bus&I was up 1st probably cuz I was the biggest no one there&   IMPORTANT stuff&I spent the majority of my preparation time ...
Posted by The PHONOGARDE on Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:58:00 PST