Nimbit Artists of the Month, August 2014 August 31,2014
Drum Corp International:
Well, this is a refreshing a change of pace from the typical Artist-of-the-Week. Up this time around is Drum Corp International, AKA DCI to those in-the-know, which now includes you.
Were this the usual singer/songwriter or rock band, this is the part where I would talk about where they are from, or their musical influences, or key band members. But how do I write about an organization made up of multiple bands, comprised of talented folks from all over the world?
I can't, except to say that contemporary drum corp is the torchbearer for a richly storied tradition with origins in American and Canadian military history that goes back to the first world war, with competitive circuits really coming into their own by the 1960s.
Drum Corps International formed in 1972, and is the non-profit governing body for junior (under-21) drum and bugle corps in the US and Canada.
Over at the DCI Nimbit store, once can download a metric tonne of live competition performances from prestigious venues like the Alamodome and University of Akron's InfoCision Stadium. Recordings contain championship performances from some of DCIs brightest and boldest. You can also grab a DCI hoodie or a DCI SNOWFLAKE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT, just in time for September?
Last but not least, you can get DVD and Blu-ray recordings of the 2013 and 2012 world championships, as well as the cutting-edge DCI Essentials collection, which includes top performances from DCI performances of yesteryear; up-converted to HD with a 5.1 audio mix. DVD is a great way to go, as drum corp is a highly visual medium.
Incidentally, PreSonus is a proud sponsor of DCI wunderkind The Blue Devils, who recently took first place at the DCI annual championship. Not only did they win, but they got the highest score ever in the history of DCI competition-a 99.65. They've been using PreSonus StudioLive AI Mixers and Loudspeakers in their performances for a little under a year, now, and we're proud to have been a part of their prestigious victory. Check out a detailed overview of their set up at: musiced.presonus.com/fieldaudio
Click here to visit DCI's Nimbit profile and get some epic recordings!
Ellis Paul:
In the film Lemmy, a wonderful biopic of Mot rhead's iconic frontman, Slash (of Guns'n'Roses fame) paints an abrupt picture of reverence when describing the film's namesake. It goes something like this: I've known a lot of rock n' roll' personalities, and the ones that I admire, and the ones that I'm drawn towards, are the guys that are f***in' the real deal. People who live, sleep, and breathe rock n' roll. Compare that to this quote from a guy who's not in Mot rhead or Guns'n'Roses, and doesn't play rock n' roll so much as folk: Ellis Paul. I've got a car with over 4 75 ,000 miles on it, and it's my third road vehicle, Paul declares. I've been doing 200 shows a year for over twenty years. There isn't a town in the country where I won't find a friend. I'm a nomad. And I'm gonna write and play until I'm gone. Real-deal? Well, if that doesn't sound like the real-deal lifestyle of someone who puts the true in troubadour, than I don't know what to tell you. While Ellis claims to live in Charlottesville, VA., it seems pretty clear to me that he lives on the road. Ellis was rather inadvertently introduced to the guitar when a sports injury knocked him out of commission and he needed something else to do. He took to songwriting almost immediately, and was soon playing Boston-area gigs, and turning Boston-area heads. Over time his songwriting matured through a healthy twin-obsession with both Woody Guthrie and musical narrative, garnering a couple of local songwriting contest wins, releasing his first record, Say Something, in 1993. And somehow, when not on the road (and when is that again?) Paul finds the time to record, and at the time of this writing has released EIGHTEEN more albums-including two volumes of his childrens' album series, The Hero in You-and culminating in his latest, Chasing Beauty. He's also landed placements in some A-list Hollywood films, including some Farrelly brothers hits. If you appreciate the earnestness of Cash and like your guitar served up with a side order of great story, you owe it to yourself to listen to Ellis Paul. Closely. Click here to visit Ellis Paul's Nimbit profile and get his latest, NINETEENTH album, Chasing Beauty.
Neil Zaza:
How many people do you think play guitar? Probably too many. So I understand if you don't get excited when I write here's another guitar player. But hold up.
Fact is, not many of them play guitar like Neil Zaza, a man compelled to broaden the range of the instrument's expressive power and bring it to the masses. Whenever I find myself starting to get board with the ocean of guitar available in popular music, I throw one of Neil's tracks on, and I hear a mission statement. He's like a six-string missionary. Call it Telecastervangelism.
The mission statement, as I hear it through his music, goes something like, Hey buddy, you thought guitars were boring? Think again, because I just figured out THIS. And then my mind blows, and I fall in love with the guitar all over again, and then I press repeat. The heavy focus on melody and advanced technique, found here, may be enough for the average shredder. Neil's secret weapon, however, is his genre melting-pot, which brews up such disparaging amalgams as classical and funk.
Makes sense, as the man has educated himself in all of the above. He studied classical guitar at the U of Akron before moving on to teaching, and in 1987 formed the eponymous band Zaza. Zaza's Zaza toured until 199
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Nimbit Artists of the Month, August 2014 August 31,2014 
