Waterpump song
Walking Man
Don't go There
Still Alive
Whoa Now
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This is the ongoing story about a fellow who came from Denmark with a taste for music, lived in many places, listened to many styles and found a band in his backyard.

Hot Blast Florence was born 2007.
- Original songs in the style of "FunkaBilly", with players
from Jazz, Rock, Bluegrass, Folk, Country & Classical music.

 







Contact: Bent@VisionEars.com
or call (805) 693 5678

Bent Myggen

Eric Brittain
 

BENT MYGGEN:

Bent is a Danish singer/songwriter, who now lives in Los Olivos, California. He has recorded and published over 300 titles in roughly 40 countries. Millions of people have heard his music and would never know it - in movies, like Burt Reynolds’s "Hooper", or TV-shows such as Beverly Hills 90210 and Sesame Street, and in soaps and commercials playing all over the world.

He was born in a small town (Øverød) in Denmark , into a very musical family (see picture history), entered early into the Danish Radio, recorded albums and formed vocal-trios and later folk/rock bands. From being a medium fish in a small pond, he came to America with his hopes and dreams - and pocket full of songs.

The music has traces of folk, rock, jazz, blues, samba, reggae and classical. He often thinks of himself as a radio, apparently able to tune in whatever the dial is set for - all with a strong melodic flavor and lyrics straight from life.

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ERIC BRITTAIN:

Since he began to play his first instrument, the drums, at age 7, Eric Brittain has gone on to master the guitar, fiddle, mandolin, and Dobro (a resonator guitar). His parents encouraged him to become a vocalist in order to round out the sound of their family bluegrass band, Buffalo Butter. Eric went on to perform with such prominent musicians as Kate Wolf, Laurie Lewis and the band It's a Beautiful Day. He has recorded several solo albums and performed on dozens more. He has also been featured in a major motion picture. He is now a member of the Wild Sage band. Wild Sage is a California-based bluegrass band that formed in 1998.



It started out innocently enough:

Bent Myggen and Eric Brittain, both multi-instrumentallists, joined forces to (apparently) mix
as many musical styles as possible.
Eric, with a strong country & blue-grass background,
give a rich dimension to Bent's original songs - ursurped from many styles & sources.

Hear four live recordings below
For the first chapter of the story:
(Headphones highly recommended)
Back to Basics* - Funk Folk. (Guitar in G and Dobro).


Rivers* - Mysterious & mythical in nature (Guitar in DadGad and Mandolin)

Mass Confusion* - a Jitter-Bug tune, live guitar and dobro.


State of Bliss* - a sweet tune, and a very lyrical dobro performance by Eric Brittain.
SECOND CLUE:
Bent discovered life in Los Olivos.
CAPTAIN'S LOG - April 2007:
So love and circumstance plopped me into the small town of Los Olivos, CA. After securing a place to live I took a walk through town and heard music. Following the sound I entered a house a block away from mine and met Frank Palmer and Rick Norton, Bass and Drums. A jam ensued, then rehersals over the next months and gigs. Frank and Rick had played rock'n roll (together in a Band named the Grasshoppers since high-school), which added punch to Eric's and my Folk/Jazz/ Americana style.

Eric came down again from Atascadero, and fit in like a chicken in a fryer (or a sweater in a dryer). Recordings were made, and some very groovy stuff is going on. Slap-bass and Mandolin called Frank to name the new style: "FunkaBilly".
 
July 28, 2007 at Cold Springs Tavern. L/R: Frank, Bent, Anita, BradCold Springs Tavern - Frank, Bent, Anita, Brad, Ron.
Click the green button to hear MP3 samples...
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_________________________________Frank Palmer ______________Rick Norton__________________________________________________________

THIRD CLUE:
Then came Kevin - old friend of Frank's (Glen-Kevin Harris) peccussinonist from Ventura. Kevin had given up guitar and keyboards to develope a full-bodied peccussion section using only feet and hands and some clever mike placements.

Now we have good songs, good bass, drums, peccussion, guitars, violins, etc and voices are also showing up.

[Insight: For something to be music there must be listeners, and the first listeners are the musicians.
Then music becomes energy - the way waves move out from a pepple tossed into the pond.]
Afternoon house party in Los Olivos, Frank, Bent and Kevin play together for the first time. "Still Alive", By Bent and Tom Michell got a new twist.
Captain's Log:

As a writer of songs I don't want to tell players how to play, but perhaps how to listen. I'd rather be a conductor than a leader.


Bent's thoughts on Music.

Historic perspective: In the beginning we had music in the form of birds & natural elements. Then one day somebody made a pleasant sound with something, then we developed instruments and things kept gettin better. Scales emerged, strings, reeds, then a piano and so on. The phonograph was invented - and radio. Things worked pretty good. We humans recorded bands and singers and played them from records over the air.

Then the Digital Age came upon us. Frankly, I think we lost something important when we all went digital. Life is analogue, and even though our scientiffic instruments tell us that digital sound is cleaner and better, I think something which cannot be measured was lost. One cannot slice a complex waveform into fourtyfour thousand measuements - and reconstruct it from numbers alone - without loosing something.

We started loosing the soul of music when we invented multi-track tape-recorders, click-tracks & isolation-booths - and nobody recorded their parts at the same time anymore. It may have been good for technical perfection of the sound, but the musicians' interaction was lost. Then came the digital samplers that supplied the sound of any intrument played without feeling. Music became paintings, where we drew one blade of grass at the time. Nothing against paintings, but music is not sound, form or shape - it is language. A universal language, representing human interaction.

Digital sound is the memory of sound, not the sound itself. Analogue is the sound itself. In short, nothing beats being present in the moment real music is played. An analogue recording of the same event is a step away, as the feed-back loop is severed. Next slice up the sound 44,100 times per second and record each measurment - and do that trick backwards to produce a digital recording, and I think we just lost the embedded energy in the sound, not to mention that we also added something unpleasant - the digital "sound".

My quest is to make recordings where the spirit of music lives and can be felt - even through the digital "filter". Digital is here to stay, so for artists the challenge is to find ways to reach through this medium to touch the listeners.

I could go on forever (and often do), and perhaps will write more on this subject. It is part a collection of articles, I've published about people, music, love, drugs, sex and the meaning of life...

NEXT:

Now we cast out the net. We go into the real world and find real people. Coffee houses, homes, Farmer's Markets - any place where there are people we will play and see what happens when we offer music blended with all different styles.

[Insight: Music is a model of a world working, where everyone finds their place and is appreciated for their unique qualities. All it takes is listening.]

Stay tuned...









Contact info:

Call Bent Myggen (805) 693 5678
or e-mail: Bent@VisionEars.com
Go to Bent's main artist site: www.BentMyggen.com

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