Member Since: 7/13/2006
Band Website: malcolmhunter.net is COMING SOON!
Band Members: Wunderground Radio:
Produced by Stephen B. Ward & Malcolm Hunter
Malcolm Hunter: piano, keyboards, synths, lead and backing vocals
Stephen B. Ward: programming, percussion, horn arrangements, vocals, engineering & mix
Scot Totten: guitar
Mike Pistone: saxophone
Chuck "St" Bart: guitars
MK Duffy: vocals
Julia Binet: vocals
NEW YORK HORNS
Chris Anderson: Trumpet
John Isley: saxophone
Dan Levine: trombone
Influences: Steely Dan, Keith Jarrett, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Fryderyk Chopin, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Olivier Messaien, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Samuel Barber, Doobie Brothers, Grand Funk Railroad, Pat Metheny Group, Medeski Martin & Wood, Prince, George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Dannie Richmond, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Eric Dolphy, Art Pepper, Tom Waits, Spin Doctors, John Lee Hooker, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, the Beatles, & Mose Allison, not necessarily in that order, though...
Sounds Like: Dear Listeners:"WUNDerground Radio" is a mix of Steely-esque sounds and many Latin influences. Each tune was it's own sound palette, and Producer Steven B. Ward and I spent many an hour making the right sounds fit the right trax. Ben Ohmart of Music Dish gives his review here: http://www.musicdish.com/mag/index.php3?id=2246Core NYC's (w/Billy Burtt, bass, and Peter Ray Runnells, drums) - "Tryin' to Sort It All Out", took a more stripped down traditional approach to the trio format, and each song was recorded live in the studio, with minimal vocal overdubs. People other than I have have said it like this: "Its like Steely Dan with Mose Allison" which is quite flattering, indeed, in that I didn't put out the Mose description; someone else did. The tunes, "Open Doors" (you wanna get out/Iwannagetin), "Coffee", "TTSIAO" and "Shaking" are some of my personal favorites, although Billy Burtt's singing on "Open Doors", "Faraway Eyes" and "Questions" takes each song to another level that I could not reach on my own. Peter Runnells shared his own, "Morning Song", a tune that always receives requests from Fans.My forthcoming New Record, "Nostalgia in My Square Head" - based upon and including Mingus' "Nostalgia in Times Square", continues with the use of Rhodes-type keyboards supporting vocals that are at times funny and yet are subtley confessional. It's a Gospel Record and a soul purge, and the use of the keyboards are reminiscent of Stevie Wonder. So far the reception is quite good.Joe Regan writes, "hot looking composer-pianist-lounge artist Malcolm Hunter (wearing a crazy hat) took over the keyboards and went into one of his own compositions, "Wreckage on Aisle Fifty", a song about shopping that was side-splittingly funny. His animated attack on the keyboards and the pedal was choreography at its wildest, something like a combination of Chico Marx and Donald O’Connor. He introduced his second song as a song he wrote in response to the collection agencies that were calling him every hour of the day: "Hangups", a funny, funny song. Then he changed pace on a torchy ballad he also wrote, "Invisible Man" with a lyric describing himself as "just a soul with a voice". Wherever he’s playing in town, I wanna be there to see this entertaining talent!"I will be re-releasing both "WUNDerground Radio" and "Tryin' To Sort It All Out" on the Internet... I hope to release "Nostalgia" properly in the near future, God willing.
---Malcolm
Record Label: I'm looking for a home...
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