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The Juke-box contains songs from the
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About Hot Blast Florence:
If everyone listens, everything works.
Come to the free concerts in and around Los Olivos on Saturday afternoons - or many other venues in Santa Ynez Valley and Santa Barbara.
This is a group of people who listen as well as play. It starts with words (with meaning) & melodies.
From there this band dives fearlessly into uncharted realms of improvisation and exploration, making every show a fresh aural experience.
Members of Hot Blast Florence - though not always in attendance: Frank Palmer (bass), Eric Brittain (violin, dobro, mandolin, guitar), Rick Norton (drums), Kevin Harris (percussion), Grace Feldmann (drums), singers Melissa Ramsey, Anita & Brad Bayley, Bent Myggen (guitar, keyboards). Additional players, singers and dancers may also appear in and around the band without notice.
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Bent Myggen is a singer/songwriter/multi-media producer born and raised in Denmark, and through many twists and turns of fate ended up in the small California town of Los Olivos, in 2007.
One evening, he heard music in the neighborhood and discovered Frank Palmer, "spanking" his bass in a nearby house. "Dang - he's good", were the precise words that came to Bent's mind, and so he walked in to introduce himself.
Frank, and (equally amazing) drummer, Rick Norton, both welcomed the stranger - each thinking the other knew the fellow - and a jam session ensued. Frank and Rick had played together since high-school in the "Grasshoppers" rock & blues-band, and had over the years developed that intuitive synchronization that is the core of many a kick-butt band around. From the first bar of the first rehearsal, it was clear to Bent that this was the solid blend he had been looking for - amping up his own style of Folk, R&B and Country.
Another important component in the quest to blend as many musical styles as possible was Eric Brittain, whom Bent linked up with during a music festival. Eric played mandolin, fiddle, dobro & guitar in mostly bluegrass and country bands, and could play the whiskers off a polecat (but has never tried).
Following a year of gigs and rehearsals, Bent, Frank, Rick and Eric went into the studio for several weeks of intense recording. No click-tracks, just people actually playing together. Bass, drums, guitar, voice and fiddle were recorded simultaneously in Bent's small studio among upturned furniture functioning as sound-baffles. Overdubs from percussionist Kevin Harris, and singers Anita & Brad Bailey, Napua, Magi Myggen and Melissa Ramsey. The result, "Captain Bentley's Wild Adventure" (shown above) was mastered at Playback Recording Studio in Santa Barbara.
Since then, drummer Grace Feldmann joined the fray and many talented players - local and from far-away places such as Africa and Holland - have become part of the experiment, called Hot Blast Florence.
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