Strings for the dead. An all-star band spiralling out of the caffeinated brew that is the music community of Portland, Oregon. Musical legends Darol Anger (violin) and Carlton Jackson (drums), have combined forces with acknowledged monsters Scott Law (gtr) and Tye North (bass) for a musical experience which embraces the length, width and depth of American Music; in the great tradition of groups like The Band and NRBQ, this band covers it all and unites traditions in their original songs and dances.
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...Strings For Industry got off to a great start in summer 2007 with 3 major west coast festivals, 2 events in Colorado, an other appearances around Oregon. S4i appeared with special guest and Charter Member Tony Furtado at the High Sierra Festival in Quincy, CA, and as the quartet at the Oregon Country Fair and Yonder Mountain's Northwest String Summit.Their live extended play CD, Interstellar Supreme #1is available at their concerts. The group is currently working on their first studio recording due, late spring 2008.
About Strings for Industry
Singer-songwriter SCOTT LAW's fiery electric and acoustic guitar and mandolin playing complement his smoky-sweet tenor voice. A lifelong improviser who thrives on live performance, Scott communicates with a grounded, soulful stage presence which ranges from lyrically poetic to highly energized psychedelic-blues-rock. He has toured with Phil Lesh, Bill Nershi, Melvin Seals, and The Everyone Orchestra, and leads his own groups, the SCOTT LAW BAND and The Piano Throwers.
The LA Times has described CARLTON JACKSON's drumming as "intensely musical." This phrase also perfectly describes Carlton, a nationally known first call musician. His incisive mastery of various music genres has generated work in live performance, feature films, television and radio. Carlton has worked with jazz greats Tom Grant and Leroy Vinnegar, Billy Eckstine, Bo Diddley, Jerry Hahn, Maryann Price, Mark Isham, Jim Pepper, Bobby Torres, James Cotton, Houston Person, actor Bruce Willis, Melissa Walker, Dianne Schuur, Larry Coryell, Danny Barnes, Bill Frisell, Dan Siegel, and Gordon Lee. Carlton has also worked under the batons of conductors Pete Rugolo, Norman Leyden and James DePreist. Dan Balmer and Terry Robb, Blues/R&B singers D.K.Stewart and Curtis Salgado, country-pop singer Toni Land and iconoclastic composer Jon Newton.
A native of Portland, Oregon, bassist TYE NORTH toured all over the US with Leftover Salmon for 7 years. He recording three records with them, featuring guests Bela Fleck, Waylon Jennings, Earl Scruggs, and Lucinda Williams. Tye has performed and collaborated with Victor Wooten, Paul Mccandless, Mike Kang, Sam Bush, Karl Denson, Robert Walter, Jessica Lurie, Darol Anger, Taj Mahal, Future Man, Wally Ingram, Jeff Coffin, and Bruce Hampton. He has taken part in and promoted concerts for the Annual Zambiland Orchestra, held by beloved drummer Jeff Sipe. He recorded and toured with the group Comotion, featuring Mike Kang, Darol Anger, Mike Marshall, Paul McCandless, Jeff Sipe, and Aaron Johnston.
Violinist, fiddler, composer, producer and educator, DAROL ANGER is at home in a number of musical genres, some of which he helped to invent. He developed his signature sound through working with many of the world's great improvising string musicians, among them Stephane Grappelli, Mark O'Connor, Bela Fleck, Tony Rice, David Grisman and Vassar Clements. His current group, The Republic Of Strings, breaks new territory for bowed string instruments and presents young talent. With the jazz-oriented Turtle Island String Quartet, Anger developed and popularized new techniques for playing contemporary music on string instruments. His groups The Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, and the Anger-Marshall Duo feature his compositions and arrangements. His group Montreux was the original musical model for the New Adult Contemporary radio format. Darol was a co-founder of The David Grisman Quintet which forged a new genre of acoustic string band music with Darol's "fertile inventiveness, surprising touches and technical mastery" often in the forefront. Anger has produced dozens of critically lauded recordings since 1977 which have featured his compositions and performances.
"Darol Anger is the sort of musician who refuses to concede that musical boundaries even exist. Surrounding himself with up-and-coming musicians of the absolute top rank, Anger has upped the ante of string-band music almost off the charts."Amazon.com
